 
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. |
Say — or should I say hey — you know who was a really good baseball player? Willie Mays. You probably knew that already, but you’ll really know it if you read Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James Hirsch. You’ll know a ton by the time you float through its 560 pages of text. [...]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1972 Mets, 1973 Mets, Citi Field, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, James Hirsch, Joan Payson, New York Giants, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Mays In Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James Hirsch (which I’m about 130 pages from finishing, which is too bad, because I don’t want it to end), Willie tells a pack of reporters inquiring about the Giants’ pennant chances during Spring Training of 1961, “There’s a feel in the air.” One of his confidantes [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Fernando Martinez, Hisanori Takahashi, Hope, Ike Davis, James Hirsch, Jason Bay, Jeff Francoeur, Jenrry Mejia, Mike Pelfrey, Spring Training, Willie Mays Pity Mike Francesa. He’s a very insecure man. Today he interviewed James Hirsch, the author of the wonderful Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, and turned the conversation as well as the remainder of his show into a referendum (with his vote the only one that counts) on Mickey Mantle being better or more clutch [...] 37 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Football, James Hirsch, Mike Francesa, Radio, Tim Robbins, WFAN, Willie Mays, Yankee Hating |
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