The Sunday after the All-Star break at Citi Field was one of those afternoons when All Is As It Should Be. Matt Harvey was punishing the Phillies. A Dwight Gooden bobblehead was nestled inside my schlep bag. What we used to call DiamondVision found a moment between highlighting Harvey strikeouts to feature the de facto [...]
 
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. |
Year Books (as opposed to the Official Yearbooks available at concession stands or by sending $1.50 to Shea Stadium, Flushing, NY, 11368) are designed to easily entice historically minded readers. The formula makes sense on its surface. Something happened; something else happened; another thing was going on at the same time, too. You measure your [...] Two games, two runs, two 1-0 results. Pitching! Defense (of which pitching is a key component)! No hitting! Almost literally, in one case! Michael Wacha and bullpen outlasted Clayton Kershaw and bullpen in the afternoon, while Anibal Sanchez and bullpen totally edged Jon Lester and bullpen at night. It wasn’t exactly Marichal and Spahn going mano-a-mano [...] It’s summer. Basketball’s done. Hockey’s endless rounds of playoffs have ceased. Football training camps have not yet stirred. Baseball rules the land. And all is well. Proof? Here are some good things for us all to appreciate: 1) Your 2013 New York Mets, even with Shaun Marcum. Marcum hadn’t been great before tonight, but he hadn’t been 0-9 [...]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Shaun Marcum, The Happiest Recap (The Book) I have so much to tell you. I don’t know where to start. He’s just some fan. What do you expect? So many games like Tuesday night’s. So many road trips like the one that has wound winless from Miami to Washington. So many [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Chris Farley, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Howie Rose, Jimmy Qualls, Mets Fans, Radio, The King Of Comedy, WFAN CONTEST UPDATE: WE HAVE OUR WINNERS. Knuckleball is classified as a documentary, but that’s not quite right. At the very least, it should be cross-referenced as a romance. When you watch the DVD — three copies of which we’re happy to offer those who win our contest below — you’ll fall in love with R.A. Dickey [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, knuckleball, R.A. Dickey We ran into our across-the-hall neighbor the other day, which shouldn’t have been unusual as we live across the hall from each other, but neither Stephanie nor I had seen him in months. Just the way that goes sometimes. We converged at the elevator on the way up to our respective apartments and I noticed [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mets Cap, Mets Police, Neighbors Have I got a book for you. Four of them, actually — one now, three later. And make no mistake: they’re all for you, my fellow Mets fan who likes to read. They’re for us. I’m proud to introduce to you the Banner Day Press book series The Happiest Recap: 50 Years of the New York [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, The Happiest Recap (The Book) Not so much coming soon as actually here now. Will have a fuller and richer pitch for you on Monday, but I need to let you know that my new book, The Happiest Recap: First Base (1962-1973), is available for purchase on Amazon RIGHT NOW. And damned if I’m not going to advise you to [...] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, The Happiest Recap (The Book) Gosh, I hope the passage directly below doesn’t came back to haunt us tonight as R.A. Dickey of the Mets faces Aaron Harang of the Dodgers. Not that there’s anything nasty about what one of the starters said about the other, but the last time something less than flattering about the L.A. club appeared under [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Harang, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, R.A. Dickey |
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