 
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. |
Break up the Mets! They’re 2-2 against the Yankees! Actually that already appears to be happening: the Mets left Robert Gsellman in to throw a ton of pitches against the Yankees Friday night while Jeurys Familia sat in the bullpen in a sweatshirt, got hugs from teammates and was spoken of evasively in postgame interviews. He’s […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1966 Mets, Amed Rosario, Baseball Cards, Billy Murphy, Broadcasters, Gil Hodges, Jeurys Familia, Joe Nolan, Lost Mets, Mets Songs, Noah Syndergaard, Ralph Kiner, Rheingold, Robert Gsellman, Rube Walker, The Holy Books, Tommie Agee, Yankees The Mets lost, 10-8, and no, this is not a blog malfunction. They essentially played the same occasionally hopeful, ultimately deflating and consistently ridiculous game on Wednesday night as they did on Tuesday night. This time around … oh, must we? I suppose that’s why you’re here and we’re here, so yes, we must. Things started […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Coors Field, Kevin Plawecki, Mickey Callaway, Robert Gsellman, Rockies, Ryan McMahon, Seth Lugo, The Holy Books So. I pretty much took the winter off. I was busy with my other dorky obsession, writing books related to this oddball space-fantasy movie you might have heard of. But that’s an excuse. I was weirdly disengaged — to an extent that began to worry me. Granted, my disengaged would be a lot of folks’ full-throated fandom. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Kevin Plawecki, Noah Syndergaard, Opening Day, Rusty Staub, The Holy Books, Yadier Molina Should this have been written in 2017? Perhaps. But in an off-season as exciting as this one, it’s hard to find a place for evergreen features. (First of many sighs.) Background: I have a trio of binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books (THB) by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, A.J. Ramos, Adam Wilk, Amed Rosario, Baseball Cards, Chase Bradford, Chasen Bradford, Chris Flexen, Dominic Smith, Jacob Rhame, Jamie Callahan, Kevin McGowan, Neil Ramirez, Nori Aoki, Paul Sewald, Phillip Evans, The Holy Books, Tomas Nido, Tommy Milone, Travis Taijeron, Tyler Pill Timing really is everything. My kid and I got on a plane to Iceland a few minutes after the end of the Mets’ victory over the Cubs and returned a few hours before the first of their check-for-pulse efforts against the Dodgers. While overseas and four hours down the clock, I checked in on our stalwarts […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Baseball Cards, Gregg Jefferies, Jose Reyes, The Holy Books I was going over the Mets’ spring roster the other day because of a suspicion that’s kept bubbling up in my brain. Tomas Nido’s too young. So are Amed Rosario and Wuilmer Becerra. None of those guys is going to make the Opening Day roster. Travis Taijeron’s been passed over before and the Mets already have 75 […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, Bob Ojeda, Danny Heep, Jack Aker, Mackey Sasser, Mickey Lolich, Rosters, The Holy Books I’ll admit that I’ve grown blase about pitchers and catchers reporting. OK, more than blase — indifferent, jaded, cynical, all of the above. Obviously this has nothing to do with a disdain for baseball basics. Rather, it’s that the happy moment is a mere moment. Yes, those are Mets pitchers and Mets catchers out there doing vague baseball […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Spring Training, The Holy Books The Baseball Equinox is behind us, meaning we’re closer to 2017 Mets baseball than we are to the 2016 variety — a comforting thought with the teeth of winter pearly and bared. But we still have 2016 Mets business to attend to, namely the offering of formal greetings to those who joined the orange-and-blue ranks […] For at least one day the Mets, those egregious laughingstocks, were anything but: they stomped on the Giants to break their losing streak in convincing fashion. 9-5? That’s definitely a way to make a living. Yoenis Cespedes led the charge, smacking two home runs and just missing a third, a just-missed that may or may not have led […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Billy Cotton, Ghosts, Joe Hietpas, Josh Smoker, Terrel Hansen, The Holy Books, Yoenis Cespedes I’ve spent a good chunk of the winter sulking about Jeurys Familia quick-pitching or Yoenis Cespedes playing base-soccer or Daniel Murphy bringing the glove up or Cespedes charging off first on a soft liner or Terry Collins being too sentimental or Lucas Duda being unable to make a simple throw home or getting to the big stage […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bill Graham, Charlie Neal, Dennis Musgraves, Dick Rusteck, Jerry Grote, Jerry Hinsley, Joe Hicks, Lost Mets, Minor Leagues, Ray Daviault, Rod Kanehl, Sammy Drake, Shaun Fitzmaurice, Ted Schreiber, The Holy Books, Tom Seaver, Willard Hunter |
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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