As Mets fans, we hope our tentatively planned deluxe apartment in the National League East sky will be ready for occupancy in a couple of years. As New Yorkers who made it through Superstorm Sandy, we understand projecting living arrangements can become a precarious matter when nature intrudes in the rudest fashion possible. Almost six [...]
 
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. |
This past Saturday, I sat in the same room as Willie Mays and listened to him reminisce about Leo Durocher and Laraine Day and find a reason to invoke Mel Ott. Bobby Thomson’s name was mentioned prominently by others on hand. Carl Hubbell and Christy Mathewson were namechecked, too. As Saturdays go, this was a good [...] Nothing makes you dislike a team you normally barely notice than being surrounded by a surfeit of its followers. Who knew the San Francisco Giants had enough followers in New York to constitute a dislikable surfeit? It must be because every 23-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area packed his or her belongings and moved to [...]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Giants, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Legacies, New York Giants Some lineup! I haven’t had the opportunity to open a freshly waxed pack of 2012 Topps baseball cards yet (it won’t truly be spring until I do), but I got to do something just about as good, probably better, a couple of weeks ago when my friend Sharon and I visited the Met. Not the Mets, [...] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Giants, Pumpsie Green, Willie Mays Sometimes a sensible panic is the advisable course of action. For example, Friday night, at one of my periodic meetings of the New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society, I was attempting to open a large, round folding table, the kind that is difficult for one person to balance while unfolding. Somehow, in my attempt to [...] Before the latest round of Wilpon news erupted, I had been thinking about owning a baseball team. I don’t mean that in the “I had some spare zillions lying around and was looking to buy one,” but rather why people (very rich people) would do it. Usually owners come to the fore when there’s bad [...] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Neukom, Fred Wilpon, Giants, Jeff Wilpon, New York Giants, Ownership, Polo Grounds, Willie Mays The grizzled cabbie craned his neck out of the taxi window to survey the madhouse on Market Street. San Francisco’s busiest downtown boulevard, even on normal days, was teeming with thousands of jubilant Giant followers. Car horns were honking. Orange and black confetti was fluttering from the windows above. Strangers were shaking hands, then embracing. [...] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Postseason, Bill Kent, Buster Posey, David Plaut, Deliverance, Don DeLillo, Giants, Madison Bumgarner, New York Giants, Roger Kahn, Suffering, Tim Lincecum, World Series Our all-time favorite American League team since the other night, the Texas Rangers, will be making its first League Championship Series appearance in its 39 years of existence. Just wanted to get that on the record — and let the second edition of the Washington Senators off the hook. (Oh, the things one thinks about when one’s [...] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Postseason, Bob Aspromonte, Brooklyn Dodgers, Frank Howard, New York Giants, Rangers, Senators, Willie Mays Bobby Thomson, a true New York sports icon and author of the most famous home run in baseball history, passed away last night. He was 86. As far as I can tell, nobody ever said a bad word about the man. What follows is something I wrote a few years ago about an afternoon I spent [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Thomson, Moment of Silence, New York Giants One of the great New York sports columnists, Vic Ziegel, has passed away at age 72 from lung cancer. You can and should read about his life and career here. He covered the early Mets as a beat writer with the Post and once told me there was no greater group of guys he came [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Polo Grounds, Vic Ziegel, Writing |
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