 
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. |
I assigned myself two missions as I arrived at Citi Field Tuesday morning to cover my fourth consecutive Mets holiday party for Queens schoolchildren. One I had planned, the other developed on the fly. The ad hoc mission involved getting out of the bitter cold after an overly literal, presumably underinstructed windbreaker-wearing guard on the other […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aces, Citi Field, Jib, Jon Niese, Mets Holiday Party, Pedro Martinez, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler Oh, you suddenly wacky Mets. No sooner had I fallen back into despair and trotted out my Sandy as Charlie Brown, Jeff as Lucy cartoon than it was announced that the Mets had signed Bartolo Colon — who’s equal parts huge, old and good — to a two-year contract that, like Curtis Granderson not long before, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Citi Field, Fans, Kids, Sandy Alderson, Tom Seaver, Wilpons Sure, you could’ve sent Tom Seaver a birthday card today — or at least written “Happy Birthday, Tom” on a Post-It note and stuck it to the cork atop a bottle of GTS Cabernet Sauvignon en route to toasting the Franchise — but there’s a better way to greet the day the Met who gave […] Matt Harvey this afternoon told reporters, “I’m not a doctor.” At last I can confirm I have something in common with someone I heretofore assumed was everything and could do anything. Matt’s not a doctor, so he can’t say much about the partial UCL tear heard ’round the world except that his right forearm had been […] You know what Doc Gooden’s typical pitch count was when he was regularly registering double-digit strikeouts in 1984? Neither do I. It never occurred to me to ask. The only pitches any Mets fan was counting 29 years ago were the ones that resulted in strike three. That was the fun of the greatest new […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Cone, Dwight Gooden, Eric Young Jr., Instant Replay, Juan Lagares, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler The 2013 All-Star Game is barely over and I’ve already forgotten all but its most salient details: • Tom Seaver threw out the first pitch, looking as robust as ever. • Matt Harvey went two scoreless, settling down after two shaky batters, no thanks to his catcher Yadier Molina who’s supposed to be so valuable at that […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, Billy Wagner, Citi Field, David Wright, Matt Harvey, Tom Seaver Perhaps I need to be more cynical, but I’m genuinely excited that All-Star Week is upon us and around us. Is it called All-Star Week? I can’t believe it’s not. I assume it’s trademarked and MLB is cashing in on it. MLB will be cashing in off me in two scoops when I visit FanFest twice. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, Johnny Callison, Matt Harvey, Polo Grounds, Ron Hunt, Tom Seaver, Willie Mays They walked on Ninth Avenue, with Harvey and the two friends in front, his sister and her husband behind them. When they arrived at the restaurant, his sister was laughing about what had just happened on the street. “Do you know how many people just did the second take on you?” she said to her […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gerry Arrigo, Harveysteria, Ike Davis, Marlon Byrd, Matt Harvey, Pitchers Hitting, Sid Fernandez, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver In discussing my kid and his flickering hopes for the future, I left out one other new Met he’s excited about. It’s the same Met you went into last night excited about. Which means this morning we’re all giddy with a chance of liftoff. And rightly so. Matt Harvey was … well, words fail even this word-obsessed […] Now he’s at 18. Now this is getting to be a whole other kind of fun. Oh, it was good, clean, dry fun — no rain, please; it disturbs everything for which he stands — from early on this season. And it was a veritable overflowing fountain cup of fun in the middle of the year […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Bobby Ojeda, David Cone, Dwight Gooden, Frank Viola, Jerry Koosman, R.A. Dickey, Tom Seaver |
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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