Greg has always appreciated The Holy Books — my three binders of baseball cards, with each Met represented by a single card organized by the year of their Mets debut — while making simultaneously gentle and pointed inquiries about their administration. His biggest objection? It’s been that The Holy Books are organized alphabetically within each […]
 
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. |
Greg is inputting even more data into the FAFIF Contest-a-Tron 2012 — you should see the smoke coming out of that poor machine. Contest coming soon — in the meantime, here’s the eighth go-round for a Faith & Fear tradition…. Jason Bay is gone, but R.A. Dickey still might be going. That’s how it goes these […] Somehow, I imagined that seeing my favorite team play a doubleheader that included two big-league debuts and began with David Wright poised to claim the club record for RBIs would be more fun. After 10 days far from home, the idea of my own couch and the Mets on my own TV was pretty close to […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  David Wright, Giants, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jordany Valdespin, Sean Ratliff, The Holy Books, Tim Lincecum The Holy Books have their share of oddities, from Lost Mets to weirdo minor league cards to guys with one career at-bat. But the oddest card of all comes in the section reserved for the 1961 Expansion Draft. That section includes the 22 players chosen by the Mets to stock their inaugural roster from the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Baseball Cards, Lee Walls, The Holy Books For once the actual weather matched the spiritual forecast: A day after a thoroughly entertaining World Series that featured a Game 6 for the ages, the East Coast got walloped by a blast of snow, slush and mess. The mess is gone but it’s still cold, and on some essential level it will stay that […] Following too many losses I’ve tried to be philosophical: Watching your team lose a baseball game isn’t so bad — in fact, it’s the second-best thing you can do with three hours. Which is sometimes true, but breaks down when it comes to doubleheaders. There are a lot of things that are more fun than watching […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Schwinden, Craig Kimbrell, The Holy Books, Valentino Pascucci Last week I went on a road trip, for a number of reasons: I wanted to get some junk out of our apartment, a problem I solved by selling CDs and sticking my parents with boxes of baseball cards; I wanted to see Gettysburg; I wanted to drive around for a couple of days; and […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bob G. Miller, Bob L. Gibson, Bob L. Miller, Bobby J. Jones, Bobby Jones, Bobby M. Jones, Jose A. Reyes, Jose Reyes, Mike Maddux, Pedro A. Martinez, The Holy Books It’s not yet the Baseball Equinox — though I’m eagerly awaiting word from Greg that we’re finally closer to new baseball than we are to old. But nonetheless, in the last couple of days I’ve felt a quickening somewhere in my blue-and-orange soul. Spring's coming. Promise. And it has nothing to do with our front […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Justin Turner, Offseason, The Holy Books Yoo-hoo? Anybody miss me? After a month of insanity (finishing a Star Wars book, grueling new freelance gig), I can finally think once again about my beloved New York Mets. (Nod to the beyond-awesome Citi ad set in Istanbul.) So let me sally forth by looking back — and giving a slightly overdue welcome to the […] Update: Here’s this story revisited for NPR. Near the end of winter my neighbor’s younger brother died unexpectedly. Emily and I are friendly with our neighbor, and offered him our condolences. But we don’t really know each other, for all the usual city reasons that you regret on one level but mostly look past while you’re […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bill Dillman, Moment of Silence, Team History, The Holy Books |
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