 
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 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. ZACHARY CRAIG “Zach” LUTZ I saw Zach Lutz (barely) prevent a no-hitter in the seventh inning and a […] “If I had to sum up in one word what this campaign is all about, that word would be ‘faith’.” So the ones who pitch and the ones who catch what they pitch have reported to where they pitch and catch when it’s too cold to catch […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Mets, Cynicsm, Cynnocence, Innocence, Spring Training At the risk of being a killjoy, I’m already sick of Spring Training coverage. The players show up way too soon and their every move is monitored far too closely. We used to get by on a feature, some notes and a picture of somebody swinging in the cage. On Sunday we’d get a column […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Annual Rituals, Curmudgeonly Preference for the Way Things Used to Be, Media, Spring Training Welcome to the beginning of the second decade of existence for Faith and Fear in Flushing, or to put it in reverse and observe it from the more comfortable perspective of the rearview mirror, today is our tenth anniversary. We signed on the blogging air on February 16, 2005, looking ahead not ten years but […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Internal Affairs, Jerry Grote, Tom Parsons Saturday was Valentine’s Day, providing those us of who still adore from chronologically afar the occasion’s namesake a moment to recall the improvement Bobby Valentine’s Mets produced in his first full year at the helm. After finishing 71-91 in 1996 (a campaign he took over with 31 games remaining), the 1997 Mets delightfully surprised their […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Valentine, Davey Johnson, Duane Below, Gil Hodges, John Mayberry Jr., Managers, Michael Cuddyer, Sean Gilmartin, Terry Collins, Willie Randolph “And when the twelfth-largest company in the world controls the most awesome, goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?” When last we visited with Howard Beale on DiamondVision more than six years ago, he was urging us to get up right now, sit […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Bobby Ojeda, Network, Poochie, SNY, The Simpsons You know how every winter of late Sandy Alderson goes to the New York Baseball Writers’ Dinner and makes a modestly clever remark about the financially deprived state of the New York Mets and you either chuckle knowingly or fume disgustedly or perhaps a bit of both? That Alderson’s quips draw as much attention as […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Writers Dinner, Dennis D'Agostino, Fiddler On The Roof, Sandy Alderson, Winter On Super Bowl Sunday, we like to take our cue from the singular WNYC radio host Jonathan Schwartz and present A Salute To Baseball, though to be fair, we present A Salute To Baseball most every day. We’re a baseball blog. What else are we going to salute? It’s what we do. But it’s not […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Football, Joe Christopher, Mark Mehler, Mike Bruhert How about lunch? How about lunch with Doc Gooden? How about lunch with Doc Gooden for a compelling baseball cause? If any or all of the above intrigues you, look into what’s coming three weeks from today, Saturday, February 21, in White Plains. It’s an opportunity to spend some quality time with one of the premier […] This here’s a story about Charlie Williams, a young pitcher who seemed destined for if not big, then definitely specific things. Consider what can be gleaned about C.W. from his C.V. • Born in Flushing fourteen years before ground was broken on the stadium that would make that Queens village world-famous. • Matriculated at Great Neck South […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, Charlie Williams, Moment of Silence, Willie Mays |
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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