 
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 Mets have played home games in two counties of New York City, so I’ll do the same in the coming days, as the preseason book tour for Amazin’ Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens continues. This Saturday, March 26, from roughly noon to three, I’ll be at Foley’s, […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amazin' Again, Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library I long ago worked with a CFO who was fond of quoting the late Everett Dirksen: “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking you’re talking about real money — so cut down on the paper clips.” The paper clips part may have been our CFO’s coda, but you could hear the longtime […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Chris Woodward, Drake LaRoche, Eric Campbell, Everett Dirksen, Joe McEwing, Matt Reynolds, Money, Ruben Tejada After paying just enough attention to Spring Training to notice the hitters aren’t necessarily behind the pitchers anymore — guys in Mets unis lost 14-9 on Saturday but won 11-0 on Sunday — I realize my anxieties are lagging behind my capacity for calm. That’s a very unusual March alignment. Starting shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera might miss […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, David Wright, Dilson Herrera, Eerie Calm, Goose Gossage, Kevin Plawecki, Lucas Duda, Oliver Perez, Ruben Tejada, Spring Training, Travis d'Arnaud, Travis Taijeron, Yoenis Cespedes “Someday there will be nostalgia for the seventies, as hard as that may be to realize now.” Willie Nelson was right: it is funny how time slips away. It couldn’t be more than four or five […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 National League Champions, Amazin' Again, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library The return address on the manila envelope was Citi Field. The postmark was Flushing. The stationery featured a Mets logo. The second word handwritten in looping cursive on the single page enclosed was “Thanks” — so was the second-to-last word. There weren’t many words in between. There didn’t need to be. On December 14, 2011, Shannon […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Moment of Silence, Shannon Forde Terry Collins said the other day that “fun time” is over. I hate to disagree with the manager of the defending National League champions, but I’d say fun time is just getting started. Collins was referring to the Yoenis Cespedes Off-Hours Charismatic Carnival, which, to be fair, was loads of fun. More fun than: • a barrel […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carnac, Cars, Golf, Horses, Josh Lewin, Pigs, Spring Training, Step Brothers, Terry Collins, Yoenis Cespedes The Oscars were handed out Sunday night. Thus, per Monday morning-after tradition, the Academy pauses to remember those Mets who have, in the baseball sense, left us in the past year. ERIC GEORGE O’FLAHERTY Ronnie seemed to catch himself and tried to walk his presumptuousness back, but it […] Here are two scenes from two Florida locales at the outset of Spring Training. 1) Lucas Duda is asked about the throw that got away and, with it, the World Series. He replies: “That’s a throw I can make nine out of ten times, and that happened to be the one I didn’t […] I’ve watched it […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eric Hosmer, Jon Niese, Lucas Duda, Moment of Silence, Spring Training, Tony Phillips One of my least favorite conversational tics is somebody rebuffing me with, “Don’t get me started.” We’re having a conversation. We’ve by definition started. Don’t get you started? It’s too late, Billy Crystal. We’re already in progress. I got started on one of the longest conversations of my life eleven years ago today, February 16, 2005, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Ike Davis, Internal Affairs, Teddy Martinez A PED test must be as imposing to Jenrry Mejia as the geometry Regents was to me. I struggled with geometry throughout ninth grade and barely passed the big statewide test the one and only time I had to take it. I’m not sure how many times Jenrry had to take his PED test. We […] |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince 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. 
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. |
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