A word of thanks is in order to all those who attended Monday night’s Varsity Letters salute to the 2015 National League Champion New York Mets, a program in which I was honored to participate. It was great to meet or get reacquainted with a passel of Faith and Fear readers and wonderful to be […]
 
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. |
 21 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amazin' Again, Met Amnesty, Met Pardon, Richie Hebner, Varsity Letters Gelf Magazine refers to Faith and Fear as the unofficial recapper of “the soap opera that is the Metropolitans”. I’m more restless than young (and some days barely more active than the very recently retired Michael Cuddyer), but I’ll take that and point you back to Gelf for this Q&A they were kind enough to […] Because December needs it badly, the Varsity Letters sports discussion and reading series will devote itself to baseball this Monday night — and not just any baseball, but National League Champion Mets baseball. I will have the honor of speaking there and hope you will be there to listen and speak back. I’ll be previewing my […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amazin' Again, Asdrubal Cabrera, Casey Stengel, Varsity Letters Second base, like the beverage-branded seating section that overlooks it at Citi Field, has a new occupant. Neil Walker, unlike Ben Zobrist, turns out to be the real thing. The former Pirate did not get a tour of our leafy suburbs. The Mets don’t care where he lives as long as he shows up for work […] There’s been a breach of security. A Chicago Cub has seen our northern suburbs. Talk about intelligence falling into the wrong hands. Ben Zobrist was made intimately acquainted with the leafy cul-de-sacs of Westchester and Fairfield counties by the management and ownership of the New York Mets. This is as bad as the Russian ambassador seeing […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben Zobrist, Connecticut, Cubs, Don Zimmer, Dr. Strangelove, Free Agents, Joe Maddon, Lingering Bitterness Over Losing the World Series, Never Mets, Starlin Castro, Westchester If this is the day you shop online for the holidays — and if you define “the holidays” as the approach of the next baseball season — then do I have a deal for you. Go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble and pre-order Amazin’ Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Amazin' Again, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library The Mets were the champions of the National League in 2015 without anybody being officially judged particularly valuable. The Baseball Writers Association of America has an award that declares who’s Most Valuable, and no Met got anywhere near it. Twenty National Leaguers were named on BBWAA ballots and only two of those names belonged to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Awards, Curtis Granderson, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Willie Mays, Yoenis Cespedes, Yogi Berra This is a job for Daniel Murphy. Daniel Murphy took on all kinds of jobs in a New York Mets uniform: left fielder, first baseman, second baseman, third baseman, playoff hero, World Series less than hero (to put it kindly)…but the one that fascinated me most was credit deflector. Any time — any time — […] They played cricket at Citi Field on Saturday afternoon. I tuned in to ESPN3 to watch. It was only for a few minutes, but when I learned it was being aired somewhere, I had to look. I had to look at something going on at Citi Field. It had been too long. Nothing that isn’t the 2015 […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Cricket, Discounted Merchandise, Mourning, Resentment I straggled home from Game Four of the World Series Sunday at 2:00 AM EDT, which in the instant it took me to look up at the clock, became Sunday at 1:00 AM EST. Standard Time had returned and the Mets were still playing baseball. Not very well on the eve of us gaining our wee […] 109 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Mathematically Eliminated, Matt Harvey, Royals, World Series Ending |
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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