 
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. |
***WE HAVE OUR WINNERS. THANKS FOR PLAYING.*** The 1986 World Series was quite literally a star-studded affair. Now all of it can be yours — even the parts not so stellarly studded. For as you’re about to find out, sometimes you have to search beyond the stars in order to grab what glitters most. MLB […] If you want to swim with the sharks, you’ve got to learn to outlast the Marlins. Or something like that. And son of a Rich Renteria, Monday night we sure as Orestes Destrade did. On the twentieth anniversary plus one day of the evening Anthony Young didn’t just not lose to but actually won against then-expansion […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1993 Mets, Anthony Young, Bobby Parnell, Christian Yelich, Daniel Murphy, Dave Gallagher, Eddie Murray, Giancarlo Stanton, Greg Dobbs, Ike Davis, Jeff McKnight, Juan Pierre, Marlins, Marlon Byrd, Ryan Thompson, The Shawshank Redemption Saturday was just mild disgust, the kind that’s been de rigueur in Metsopotamia since 2009. You know how it goes: our starting pitcher is taken early and often into distant seating sections, our lineup falls easy prey to his opposite number and it rains before it can end. The Mets indeed played one of their […] I will not read too much into this afternoon’s Mets’ 11-0 thrashing of the Nationals. 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bob Gibson, Daniel Murphy, Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Sequestration It was Camp Day at Citi Field Thursday, where I don’t know how many thousands of kids were getting their first live exposure to Mets baseball the way I did 40 years ago this month on my Camp Day. Given that these outings cast a dragnet over the lot of a camp’s participants and not […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Camp Day, Ground-Rule Triple, LOBs, Noise Meters Strange how one minute Wednesday night’s game was all about Tim Hudson and the next minute Wednesday night’s game was all about Tim Hudson, yet in a totally different realm come that critical second minute. First Hudson’s impenetrable to every orange-jerseyed Mets batter. Then he’s vulnerable to one Mets runner, and the next thing you […] Answers already? Yup. Sharp-eyed readers Chris D’Orso of Sound Beach and Walter Harvey of Highland Mills are our winners of the 1986 World Series Game Six DVD quiz, brought to us by MLB Productions. They knew: 1) The three former Mets who became All-Stars with the Red Sox were Felix Mantilla (1965), Jeff Reardon (1991) and […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Carl Everett, Eddie Bressoud, Felix Mantilla, Jason Bay, Jeff Reardon, Jimmy Piersall, Jose Offerman, Mo Vaughn, Pedro Martinez, Red Sox ***WE HAVE OUR WINNERS. THANKS FOR PLAYING.*** One of the defining moments of the 1986 World Series occurred almost a year before the Fall Classic to end all Fall Classics was played. On November 13, 1985, the Mets sent John Christnesen, Calvin Schiraldi, Wes Gardner and LaSchelle Tarver to the Red Sox in exchange for Bobby […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Bobby Ojeda, Calvin Schiraldi, John Christensen, John Mitchell, MLB Productions, Red Sox, Wes Gardner I put in a request for a sitdown with the baseball gods prior to the start of Sunday’s 1:10 game versus the Phillies. I had what I believed were a few reasonable requests. I asked if I could go the game. I asked for really good seats at a decent price. 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cliff Lee, Craig Swan, Harvey Day, LIRR, Marlon Byrd, Matt Harvey, The Baseball Gods The Mets no longer require extra innings. They make the regulation amount go on forever. In their first two games coming out of the All-Star break — one a hopeless blowout loss, the other a relatively mundane win — they donated more than seven hours to the baseball-starved denizens of Queens inside a span of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Utley, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels, Gonzalez Germen, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Satin, Marlon Byrd, Zack Wheeler |
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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