 
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. |
The sample size is only four Saturdays, but I can definitively report that it’s always colder the morning of the Queens Baseball Convention than it was at any point in the preceding week. Sometimes it snows. Sometimes it snows a lot. It snowed so much in 2016 that there was no QBC. That’ll happen in January. […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, Art Shamsky, Bobby Valentine, FanFest, Gil Hodges, Mets Fans, Queens Baseball Convention, Tim Teufel, Tom Seaver Come to Astoria this Saturday for a Terrific time. The Queens Baseball Convention will be there, at Katch Astoria, 31-19 Newtown Avenue, and I’ll be there, talking up Tom Seaver at 5 PM. I’m moderating a panel commemorating and celebrating the 50th anniversary of Tom’s major league debut and his legacy as the greatest Met […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gil Hodges, QBC, Queens Baseball Convention, Tom Seaver We now interrupt the Mets’ first pennant race in seven years to race all the way around the bases for the first time in five years. We won’t pause to do so, however, for this is one of those plays in which you can’t hit pause. You hit and you run, or as Tom Hanks […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Albert Achievement Awards, Angel Pagan, Bad News Bears, Bud Harrelson, Charlie Neal, Damion Easley, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Domonic Brown, Don Hahn, Doug Flynn, Edgardo Alfonzo, Gil Flores, Gil Hodges, Howard Johnson, Inside The Park Home Run, Jose Reyes, Kaz Matsui, Kevin Elster, Lee Mazzilli, Mark Bradley, Marlon Anderson, Richie Ashburn, Ron Hunt, Ruben Tejada, Steve Henderson, Team History, That Thing You Do, Tim Bogar, Timo Perez, Wally Backman, Warner Wolf A 9-1 game in Pittsburgh. It sounded familiar. It should have. It was the score and scene of the first game the Mets ever won. Oh, those Original Mets. Such infamy is attached to their shortcomings, but when the Mets played that first 9-1 game in Pittsburgh on April 23, 1962, and upped their record to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2015 Mets, Bobby Gene Smith, David Wright, Elio Chacon, Felix Mantilla, Gil Hodges, Harvey Haddix, Jack Lamabe, Jay Hook, Robin Ventura, Tom Sturdivant, Unflattering Comparisons Buddy Carlyle, baseball professional since 1996 yet a veteran of portions of only eight major league seasons to date, knows from whence he speaks when he says, “Baseball goes on. That’s the hardest thing to realize…it goes on without you.” It will go on with Buddy Carlyle on the Mets’ Opening Day roster Monday, just […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Carlyle, Eric Campbell, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Gil Hodges, Mort Zachter Saturday was Valentine’s Day, providing those us of who still adore from chronologically afar the occasion’s namesake a moment to recall the improvement Bobby Valentine’s Mets produced in his first full year at the helm. After finishing 71-91 in 1996 (a campaign he took over with 31 games remaining), the 1997 Mets delightfully surprised their […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Valentine, Davey Johnson, Duane Below, Gil Hodges, John Mayberry Jr., Managers, Michael Cuddyer, Sean Gilmartin, Terry Collins, Willie Randolph KVELL: To beam with pride and pleasure A Mets fan generally finds himself kvetching or kvelling. It’s tempting to kvetch about the sleepy offseason that followed the signing of Michael Cuddyer or the way the Mets apparently charge […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Ed Charles, Gil Hodges, Queens Baseball Convention If you’re the type of Mets fan to read a blog about the Mets in a month when the Mets aren’t playing, then you’re the type of Mets fan who should be attending an enormous Mets event in the next month the Mets aren’t playing. The Queens Baseball Convention is coming to McFadden’s Citi Field on […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ed Charles, Gil Hodges, Queens Baseball Convention Up until January 22, 1969, Gil Hodges was not a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in pretty much the same way you and I are not members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Unlike you and me, however, Hodges had played the requisite ten or more major league seasons to eventually […] Happy Election Day! It’s your Metstitutional duty to vote for the candidates of your choice. You could do worse — and no better, in this analyst’s opinion — than theoretically casting a ballot for the following slate. • Juan Lagares, National League Gold Glove center fielder. This race will be called tonight. If Juan grabs the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Deserved Election, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Ken Boyer |
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