Father’s Day is coming up! Graduation Day is coming up! Any day is coming up! You don’t really need an occasion, but in deference to Dads & Grads being a perennial theme of June, we are making a special offer to Faith and Fear in Flushing readers.
Between now and June 13, if you make a donation of $15 to Sharon Chapman’s Tug McGraw Foundation fundraising effort, you will receive a personally inscribed and autographed copy of the newly released paperback edition of Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Mets to give as a gift to your dad, to your grad, to yourself or to anybody you like.
This is a limited-time and limited-quantity offer, so please act now. You make the donation here and you will be contacted for confirmation of all details regarding where you want it sent and how you want it made out; if you’d prefer it unsigned, that’s all right, too. We cover shipping and handling and will get it out to you in a timely manner.
Why are we doing this? A few reasons:
1) Faith and Fear in Flushing is the official blog sponsor of Sharon Chapman’s New York City Marathon Run for the Tug McGraw Foundation. You can read all about Sharon’s motivation and preparation here, but in a nutshell, she has dedicated herself to the Marathon and to Tug, and we enthusiastically support her efforts.
2) The Tug McGraw Foundation is an outstanding organization dedicated to fighting the deadly disease of brain cancer, with an emphasis on improving quality of life for those battling the scourge of a tumor. You can learn more about the Foundation’s exemplary work here.
3) We believe Tug McGraw remains, more than 35 years since his trade to Philadelphia and six years since his untimely passing from brain cancer, the embodiment of the spirit of everything that we stand for as Mets fans: not giving up, not giving in, not taking ourselves unnecessarily seriously. Faith and Fear ranked Tug McGraw the Seventh-Greatest Met of the First Forty Years, an appraisal based as much on who he was and what he means to us as how he pitched. He pitched, not incidentally, very well.
4) Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Mets is the story of one Mets fan and all Mets fans. It’s our story. Recently, Shannon Shark of Mets Police described it as “a Mets fan walking you through the history of the Mets from a personal standpoint.” I like that. And I think any Mets fan — your dad, your grad, yourself, whoever you know who bleeds orange and blue — will like this book. It takes you from the birth of the Mets and the concomitant conception of the author clear through to the final day of Shea Stadium and — exclusive to the paperback edition — the first year of Citi Field. All the highs, all the lows, all the in-betweens are in there. You’ll recognize yourself as much as you’ll get to know me and connect to your own Met soul.
We hope you take advantage of this limited-time, limited-quantity offer. Again, please click here to make your $15 donation to this incredibly worthy cause. Once it goes through, you’ll receive an e-mail and the wheels (or feet) will be put in motion to get you the book.
It will be our honor if you take us up on this. Thank you.
Thank you Greg for this amazin’ and generous offer!
And anyone who is interested in the offer should donate quickly – the available books are already flying on the shelves, so the offer won’t be available for long!
I just donated. My dad passed of brain cancer, I was thinking about Father’s Day, and I want a book. So we’re good to go.
Thank you Rob, and my condolences on your dad.
I’m sure you’ll enjoy the book, and I’m glad that it will come with an association with your father.
(Rob – I see that there was a donation received, but I haven’t received contact information for you. Please e-mail Greg at the address on the side bar so he can arrange to inscribe and send you your book.)
Thanks Rob.
Funny, my receipt has my home info, etc etc. I just sent an email to the faithandfear addy…thanks again.
Hi Rob,
The info just came through.
Again, many thanks!
As an aside, I took my kids to Great Wolf Lodge in the Poconos last Thursday and there was somneone with an old style Philly T shirt (with the oversized maroon P on the front) and on the back it said “Ya Gotta Believe”. I almost threw up.
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I don’t begrudge the Phillies’ phans’ love of Tug. He had the most evenly divided career that you could imagine. One World Series with us, one with them. One All Star ring with us, one with them. Close to even service time. And Ya Gotta Believe was a rallying cry for both teams.
Well stated. Tug would have been beloved anywhere.
But I see Rob’s point.
Good idea. :)
Great cause. :)
No PayPal option. :(
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Thank you for running for all of us, Sharon, and for keeping alive the spirit and legacy of a great ballplayer.
Aww – thank YOU Gary!
Greg: got the book over the weekend and devoured it. I laughed out loud (like not just typing LOL but a guffaw), at your comment to the stuttering Yankee fan. I had to read it 3 times to my Yankee fan wife who laughed and my 12 year old Met fan son who almost, to quote George Carlin, “passed an entire cheese sandwich through his nose”. Thank you.
Glad you received and enjoyed. Management not responsible for the contents of cheese sandwiches.