 
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. |
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the opening of Shea Stadium, I thought I’d reprint my post from April 17, 1964, in case you missed it the first time around. Well, you can’t say it isn’t big. Or bright. They said it would be both and it surely is. I’m just not sure it feels like […]  17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1964 Mets, Ed Bauta, FAFIF Classics, Jack Fisher, Ron Hunt, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Stargell Definitely a blowout. Something like a laugher. Never in doubt. The Mets scored three runs before Bronson Arroyo threw 15 pitches. Then I drifted off under the influence of Coricidin Cough & Cold. When I woke up, the Mets were ahead, I think, 7-0. I missed four runs? I guess I could’ve been sore (and achy) […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blowouts, Jenrry Mejia, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Mad Men On a night when I felt like Gary Cohen sounded and the Diamondbacks played, the Mets overcame the most miserable Monday malady imaginable: the loss of two outfielders, one of whom is very good and the other of whom presumably sooner or later will be. They persevered to a 7-3 victory, thanks to Zack Wheeler holding […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Diamondbacks, Injuries, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Outfield, Zack Wheeler They hit ’em out of Anaheim. They hit ’em into Los Angeles. They hit ’em until geographic borders were obliterated. They scored 14 times. They were Ram-tough in Orange County as if they still had a team there that takes the field in blue and yellow. It was such a thorough thumping of New Yorkers that […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Bartolo Colon, Blowouts, Flipper Anderson, Toby Basner My deepest apologies to anybody who wanted and expected to turn in no later than midnight Saturday after a calmly resolved 6-3 Mets win over the Angels, one saved without incident by Jose Valverde. Don’t blame Valverde for the three-batter sequence that commenced with two out and nobody on in the bottom of the ninth, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Bobby Parnell, Closers, Collin Cowgill, David Freese, Doom Factor, Erick Aybar, Jose Valverde, Omar Quintanilla, Presumptuous Thinking, Raul Ibanez Howie and Josh mentioned a 1-0 lead during our brief half-inning together, but that’s all I absorbed before I had to reluctantly click them off. My phone flashed a lot of “Young” and “Murphy” whenever I gave it a borderline-polite furtive glance, yet I also spied a bit too much back-and-forth on the scoreboard for […] It doesn’t take long to travel from Hank Aaron to Bartolo Colon if you choose to journey through degrees of separation. Aaron, who was honored Tuesday night at Turner Field for having hit the home run many assumed would never be hit, played his final game in 1976. Colon, who was hit against only incidentally […] Technology, you magnificent bastard, I could just kiss you…or open your iKiss app and click on it hard. You showed us Juan Lagares was safe at second in the ninth inning Saturday despite his being called out. More importantly, you showed Jim Kelly, Mets video replay coordinator (as new a title as baseball can confer), […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Grand Slams, Ike Davis, Video Review, Walkoffs Utter pessimism is dead! Long live tempered pessimism! Losing, Lewis Grizzard once wrote, hurts worse than winning feels good. We’ve known plenty from losing and hurting. We’re only now processing again how winning feels. I’m not certain. After the 0-3 start that weighed 0-30 in Met-ric emotional tonnage, the simple act of not losing feels pretty […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Billy Hamilton, Brandon Phillips, Eric Young Jr., George Theodore, Jenrry Mejia, Joey Votto, Jose Valverde, Kyle Farnsworth, Lucas Duda, Mike Leake, Not Losing, Winning Back in the day, the Mets confined most of their April home games to afternoons. The thinking went something like this: it gets cold here at night. You might even say it gets bitter. Thursday the Mets went back to the day, a scheduling decision we “20,561” on hand (an accurate figure if you count inner […] |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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. |
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