Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 115th game in any Mets season, the “best” 116th game in any Mets season, [...]
 
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. Need our RSS feed? It's here. Use Facebook? Come check out our page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 1979 Mets, 2000 Mets, Benny Agbayani, Don Cardwell, Fiftieth Anniversary, Lee Mazzilli, Team History, The Happiest Recap Friday night was an extraordinary pitchers’ duel. The only thing that would have made it perfect would have been a better result, both in terms of reversing the identities of the winning and losing teams and if Johan Santana had, like Yovani Gallardo, pitched all nine innings in the process. This is not a rant about [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1996 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2005 Mets, Cory Lidle, Don Cardwell, Dual Complete Games, Gary Gentry, Glendon Rusch, Jack DiLauro, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Mike Maddux, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Paul Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Pedro Martinez, Relief Pitching, Rick Reed, Ryota Igarashi, Shawn Estes, Starting Pitching, Takashi Kashiwada, Team History, Tom Seaver, Wayne Granger, Yovani Gallardo In the 1968 yearbook, Don Cardwell doesn’t quite look like he’s thrilled to be here, but inside of two seasons, he had every reason in the world to be satisfied with what must have seemed like exile to baseball purgatory. Traded to the perennially lousy Mets before 1967, he earned the Opening Day start (kid named [...] Don Cardwell, one of the Miracle Mets’ elder statesmen, died Monday at 72. It’s been that kind of offseason: Most of the headlines the Mets make are because there are fewer of them, and not because three or four are headed to Minnesota for Johan Santana. Jim Beauchamp died shortly before New Year’s; now Cardwell. What [...] |
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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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