 
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. 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. |
Casey and Joan get together again for a little Mets baseball. Mets fans wait. It’s what we do. We waited through four barren seasons to have National League baseball in the first place, only to wait seven seasons stuck in ninth or tenth place. The Jobian patience mandated by the minute progress of the earliest […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1987 Mets, Anthony Recker, Casey Stengel, Cody Ross, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, John Buck, Kevin McReynolds, Kirk Gibson, Post Traumatic Mets Disorder, Rain Delays The descent of Western Civilization from its state of earthly pre-eminence can be dated from the pagan celebrations that regularly engulfed the plates of home in the early stages of the twenty-first century Anno Domini. These were bacchanalia whose sheer offensiveness to long-established standards of morals and tastes crested with the actions of the False […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Costas, Cholula Hot Sauce, Dillon Gee, Freddie Freeman, Kirk Nieuwenheis, Lucas Duda, Rain Delays OK, actually half-bad is exactly what we are. But compared to what we were not so long ago…. It turns out nothing can stop Dillon Gee except thunder, lightning, lunatic gales and cruel but sensible precautions related to long rain delays and surgically repaired labrums. Our favorite advanced-stats conundrum mowed down the Braves for four innings, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chipper Jones, Dillon Gee, Fans, Rain Delays, Stats, Storytelling |
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Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. Order a personally inscribed copy from the Team Recap Store on eBay. |
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