 
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. |
I believe there’s a reason above all others that Ed Kranepool resonates like no one else in the Met mythology: He was here from the first year through the eighteenth year of the franchise uninterrupted. Ed Kranepool’s entire Mets career (his entire major league career, for that matter) can be expressed via a simple en-dash. Ed […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bartolome Fortunato, Bill Pulsipher, Bob L. Miller, Bobby Bonilla, Cleon Jones, Comma Mets, Daniel Murphy, Dave Kingman, Ed Kranepool, Hubie Brooks, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Gosger, John Franco, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli, Mike Jacobs, Mike Jorgensen, Nolan Ryan, Pedro Feliciano, Punctuation, Recidivst Mets, Rusty Staub, Team History, Tim Foli, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw Fall was when the leaves fell and you had to go back to school. Was on another Mets-arranged blogger conference call with Sandy Alderson tonight. Of course those are splendid opportunities for the likes of we who write about the Mets yet traditionally haven’t been considered Mets writers. Downside is you’re on the phone with 15, 20 other bloggers. They’re not downers by any means — to the contrary, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Port St. Lucie, Sandy Alderson, Spring Training In addition to falling into the second base job (because legally you can’t just place an orange traffic cone between short and first), Brad Emaus seems to be the frontrunner for an award that is probably no more familiar to you than, well, Brad Emaus. He certainly qualifies as the favorite, which speaks less for […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Young, Brad Emaus, Charlie Puleo, Dae-Sung Koo, Darren Reed, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Simons, Edgardo Alfonzo, Garth Brooks, Ike Davis, John J. Murphy Memorial Award, John Milner, Johnny Murphy, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Kelvin Chapman, Kevin Elster, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli, Lucas Duda, Mario Ramirez, Masato Yoshii, Melvin Mora, Mike Bruhert, Mike Draper, Orber Moreno, Pedro Beato, Pete Schourek, Roger McDowell, Ron Darling, Ron Gardenhire, Steve Bieser, Team History, Tim Leary, Tsuyoshi Shinjo Even though Andy Martino asserts we’re racist, Mike Vaccaro implies we’re idiots and a market research company concludes we’re more fickle than Philadelphians, I still believe in us. I maintain bedrock faith in the faith of the Mets fan. I have a lifetime of experience as a Mets fan among Mets fans to back me […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amazin' Avenue Annual, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Maple Street Mets Annual, Matthew Silverman Some Mets I can’t wait to see go. Roberto Alomar in 2003, T#m Gl@v!ne in 2007, Luis Castillo from June 12, 2009 to last Friday…those departures represented addition in my soul via subtraction from the squad. I didn’t much want to pull for them as Mets and I was eventually delivered from that basic responsibility […] Kiss me! Luis Castillo has been released! By noon on Friday almost every man, woman and child in Metsopotamia was sure the war on second base was over. But most felt that they already lived through a sort of V-E-4 week, and across the great Roosevelt Avenue of Queens there was only a little […] Sharon Chapman took the FAFIF wristband to the Top of the Rock (by stairs!) in February. March 17 seems like an ideal day to recall Met reliever extraordinaire Tug McGraw, who was known to enjoy every day like it was St. Patrick’s Day. Our friend Sharon Chapman has done a phenomenal job […] “Mr. Met, can you come in for a minute?” “Have a seat.” Chico Walker, Charlie Neal, Tom Veryzer, Rod Kanehl Kelvin Chapman, Billy Cowan, Bobby Klaus, Billy Almon During the 1996 presidential election campaign, Richard Ben Cramer, who had written about Bob Dole with incredible depth and sensitivity, was asked to characterize the Republican nominee’s policy agenda if […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Emaus, Chin-lung Hu, Daniel Murphy, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Turner, Luis Castillo, Luis Hernandez, Reese Havens, Ruben Tejada, Second Base, Willie Harris |
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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