 
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. |
Why did it take me nearly 43 years to get to Cooperstown? I’m not really sure. For a while it was because I was a kid, and I don’t think it occurred to me that the Baseball Hall of Fame was somewhere you could actually go, even though I must have read approximately eleventy-billion Baseball Digest [...]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Fathers and Sons, Hall of Fame, Kirk Nieuwenhuis Twenty years ago this week, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum reached its peak as an institution of relevance when it ushered into its ranks Tom Seaver with the highest vote percentage ever. Since then, its various machinations have churned in a fashion that have overlooked the contributions of Gil Hodges, ignored the [...] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Barry Larkin, Hall of Fame, Hints & Allegations, Jeff Bagwell, Media, Mike Piazza Saturday I woke up with two overriding concerns: sports and the weather. Would the Jets beat the Colts, and was it gonna snow? Only the Jets and the Colts could determine the outcome of that AFC Wild Card game. Nobody could do a damn thing about the weather. That always amazes me. We have all this [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | B.J. Surhoff, Civility, Dallas Green, Football, Hall of Fame, Saints, Tragedy, Weather That eleventh Met in the Hall of Fame we didn’t order has arrived anyway. What the hell, congratulations Roberto Alomar, second baseman in these parts for a year-and-a-half when the team wasn’t very good and he didn’t appear to try very hard. Cases can be made for his wearing a Blue Jays cap, an Orioles [...] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Carlos Baerga, Hall of Fame, John Franco, John Olerud, Lenny Harris, Roberto Alomar John Olerud’s name appears on the 2011 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. It should be the other way around. The Baseball Hall of Fame should appear on the 2011 John Olerud ballot. THE 2011 JOHN OLERUD BALLOT Rules: Please vote for the honors, offices and/or institutions to which John Olerud should consider lending his considerable personage. Mr. [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, 1998 Mets, 1999 Mets, An Appreciation, Hall of Fame, John Olerud I was no fan of Whitey Herzog’s when he was The Enemy in the middle and late 1980s. Man, did I hate those Cardinal teams, probably more than I hated the Bobby Cox Braves of the late ’90s and early 2000s, Durocher’s Cubs, Leyland’s Pirates or Charlie Manuel’s Phillies of recent vintage. That’s a lot of [...] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Casey Stengel, Davey Johnson, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Managing, Mets Hall of Fame, Team History, Whitey Herzog Andre Dawson’s election to the Hall of Fame conjures up a most frightening vision of a very scary slugger with a terribly lethal bat ready to destroy the next innocent baseball a New York Mets pitcher throws his way. I’ve read grumbles and snorts that Dawson’s career on-base percentage is too low to be worthy [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andre Dawson, Clint Everts, Craig Brazell, Endy Chavez, Expos, Gary Carter, Hall of Fame, Jason Bay, Jeff Kent, Jeff Keppinger, Mr. Met, Olympic Stadium, Omar Minaya, Rookie Hazing, Youppi One of your Mets trivia staples is, “Name the Mets players who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.” For the longest time, you had but four names to memorize if you wanted to answer in full: • Yogi Berra, inducted 1972 You understood each of these [...] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Duke Snider, Eddie Murray, Gary Carter, Hall of Fame, Nolan Ryan, Richie Ashburn, Rickey Henderson, Roberto Alomar, Tom Seaver, Warren Spahn, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra One week delayed due to a fever that could have eviscerated Corona, welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, [...] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, Citi Field, Flashback Friday, Hall of Fame, Willie Mays If you can’t make it out, those are — clockwise from the top left — Rey Ordoñez, John Olerud, Todd Hundley and Bobby Jones at play on my torso. We were in Cooperstown on August 26, 1997. The Mets were 70-60 at that moment, trailing the Florida Marlins by 5-1/2 games in the Wild Card race. [...] |
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