 
Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans. Greg Prince discovered the Mets when he was 6, during the magical summer of 1969. He is a Long Island-based writer, editor and communications consultant. Contact him here. Jason Fry is a Brooklyn writer whose first memories include his mom leaping up and down cheering for Rusty Staub. Check out his other writing here. Got something to say? Leave a comment, or email us at faithandfear@gmail.com. (Sorry, but we have no interest in ads, sponsored content or guest posts.) Need our RSS feed? It's here. Visit our Facebook page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
Twelve! Twelve! Twelve! And so on. You didn’t necessarily have to be there. You could glean just fine far from Citi Field what 12 runs in one inning looked like, felt like, even smelled like. It smelled like victory, of course. But if you were fortunate enough to be at Citi Field on Friday night, […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alexa, Butch Huskey, Jake Peavy, Mets Jeopardy, Mike Broadway, My Cousin Vinny, Neil Walker, New Year's Eve, Sade, Team History, Twelve-Run Inning, Ty Wigginton, Yoenis Cespedes What was Chipper Jones doing in the Mets clubhouse before Saturday night’s game at Turner Field? Presumably signing over the deed on the joint to the visiting team. Remember when Larry was loathed and Turner was terrifying? Vaguely. Like the Atlanta Braves who made the National League Eastern Division their private hunting preserve, it all seems […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Amazin' Again, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobby Jones, Braves, Butch Huskey, Chipper Jones, David Wright, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Gary Cohen, Greg McMichael, John Franco, Juan Lagares, Neil Walker, Steven Matz, Sun Trust Park, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption, Turner Field, Worms That Turn Tom Seaver returned from M. Donald Exile (a.k.a. Cincinnati) on April 5, 1983, and though it was as if order had been restored to Shea Stadium, one element of the Metsian universe had been disturbed. The home uniform Tom donned for his triumphant restoration as king of our hill had been notably altered. The emperor’s […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1992 Mets, 2-3 Starts, Darryl Strawberry, Jim Henderson, Ken Henderson, Racing Stripes, Rickey Henderson, Ron Darling, Small Sample Sizes, Sports Illustrated, Steve Henderson, Team History, The Simpsons, Tom Seaver, Uniforms, Willie Randolph, Yoenis Cespedes The Oscars were handed out Sunday night. Thus, per Monday morning-after tradition, the Academy pauses to remember those Mets who have, in the baseball sense, left us in the past year. ERIC GEORGE O’FLAHERTY Ronnie seemed to catch himself and tried to walk his presumptuousness back, but it […] “He called me when we won the division, congratulating me. I tried to return the call, but it’s like getting through to the President when you call the Giants. So I didn’t get through.” The crotchety and the crusty have lost one of their champions. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Football, Longevity, Mets Managers, Team History, Terry Collins, Tom Coughlin One of the most fascinating sets of figures I ever came across grabbed my attention forty years ago this month. The Sporting News printed what every member of every qualifying team received in the way of a postseason share. In those four-division days, shares were allocated to teams that finished first, second and third in […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, 2015 Mets, Akeel Morris, Chili Davis, Cleon Jones, Eric O'Flaherty, Jerry Moses, Jim Caple, LaTroy Hawkins, Matt Reynolds, Mike Coolbaugh, Mike Piazza, Mike Vail, Postseason Shares, Rickey Henderson, Ron Hodges, Team History, The Sporting News, World Series Shares Regardless of what the Trade Winds told us in the mid-1960s regarding the plight of displaced Southern California surfer boys, New York’s an awesome town when you’re the only baseball team around. Welcome to the autumn of our municipal content, the one featuring the Mets and, as of the completion of the Houston Astros’ shutout victory […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Elimination Day, New York, New York Championships, Sheadenfreude, Team History I like to say that all you can reasonably ask for from your team year after year is that they give you hope. To me, that has always implied that you can hope your team will contend in earnest for a postseason berth, and to do that, your team has to win more games than […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2014 Mets, Losing Record, Team History, Winning Into every life, a little Marlin must fall. And I don’t mean former teal bedbug Cody Ross. The baseball season, even a successful baseball season, isn’t fully textured until the New York Mets lose an aggravating game to the Florida/San Juan/Miami Marlins in walkoff, gnashoff, fumeoff, bleepoff fashion. After 25 such endings in the past 20 […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bullpen, Carlos Torres, Daniel Murphy, John McGraw, Marlins, Pitchers Hitting, Rosters, Team History, Tsuris, Working Girl We now interrupt the Mets’ first pennant race in seven years to race all the way around the bases for the first time in five years. We won’t pause to do so, however, for this is one of those plays in which you can’t hit pause. You hit and you run, or as Tom Hanks […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Albert Achievement Awards, Angel Pagan, Bad News Bears, Bud Harrelson, Charlie Neal, Damion Easley, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Domonic Brown, Don Hahn, Doug Flynn, Edgardo Alfonzo, Gil Flores, Gil Hodges, Howard Johnson, Inside The Park Home Run, Jose Reyes, Kaz Matsui, Kevin Elster, Lee Mazzilli, Mark Bradley, Marlon Anderson, Richie Ashburn, Ron Hunt, Ruben Tejada, Steve Henderson, Team History, That Thing You Do, Tim Bogar, Timo Perez, Wally Backman, Warner Wolf |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
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