Ray Daviault first came out of the bullpen for Casey Stengel on April 13, 1962. the second reliever used in the New York Mets’ first-ever home game. Ray’s mere presence made him the first Canadian in a Mets uniform. On July 7, after Marv Throneberry delivered a pinch-hit two-run homer in the bottom of the […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Al Kaline, Bob Gibson, Claudell Washington, Dick Allen, Jim Ryan, Joe Morgan, Les Rohr, Lou Brock, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Phil Linz, Phil Niekro, Ray Daviault, Rick Baldwin, Tom Seaver, Tony Fernandez, Whitey Ford Every November 17, I think, “It’s Tom Seaver’s birthday.” I’m thinking it again. Tom Seaver would have been 76 today. What a heartbreaking sentence to write. November 17, 1944, was the first baseball birthday I learned. I’m pretty sure I plucked it off the back of one of Tom’s baseball’s cards, presumably his 1971 Topps, since […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Moment of Silence, Newspapers, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. And when the morning light On Wednesday night, October 2, 1985, at Busch Stadium, Tommy Herr batted for the St. […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bob Gibson, Dwight Gooden, Jerry Koosman, Sandy Koufax, Tom Seaver In a sixty-game season with all the irregularities passed off as the new normal, it wouldn’t have been terrible to have halted Sunday afternoon’s Mets-Phillies game once it went official. Not for the usual reason that the Mets led after four-and-a-half and the bullpen later blew up, but because, in the middle of fifth inning […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Lou Brock, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, PItching, Tom Seaver Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. For me, baseball provides constant challenge, a new mental and physical test every game. The Mets were supposed to be off Thursday, which would have been fitting given the sad news Wednesday night that Tom Seaver — No. 41, the Franchise, the most essential and irreplaceable figure in team history — had died Monday at 75. Thursday would have been a day to mourn and reflect on the memory […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Aroldis Chapman, Billy Hamilton, Edwin Diaz, Farewells, J.A. Happ, J.D. Davis, Justin Wilson, Manny Sanguillen, Miguel Castro, Pete Alonso, Robert Gsellman, Steve Cohen, Tom Seaver, Tyler Ford, Yankees Terrific only began to say it. Tom Seaver was everything to the New York Mets. Everything. He was everything to me. Everything. And I know I’m not alone in that assessment. Seaver’s death Monday at the age of 75 was announced tonight shortly after the current Mets’ win at Baltimore. I watched that game, as I watch […] Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Hark ye yet again—the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Al Schmelz, Alaska Goldpanners, Andy Messersmith, Baseball Cards, Bill Denehy, Bing Devine, Danny Frisella, Don Cardwell, Gil Hodges, Jerry Hinsley, Julian Javier, Keith Olbermann, Ken Boyer, Pitchers, The Holy Books, Tim McCarver, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Wes Westrum Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. There’s a new world comin’ If I have one certainty as a Mets fan, it’s that no […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Darryl Strawberry, Draft, Hope, Sports Illustrated, Tom Seaver, Tucker Ashford, Youth Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. When I first encountered Rod Kanehl, it was as an example of what not to be. The story is famous in Miracle Mets lore: After the Mets ascended to the lofty heights of .500 in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Casey Stengel, Rod Kanehl, Tom Seaver |
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