David Ortiz is in the Hall of Fame, which is great for David Ortiz and, I believe, splendid for baseball. Big Papi was a big star with big numbers who came through in big situations. That’s a Hall of Famer in my mind. Everybody else on the just-revealed Baseball Writers Association of America ballot isn’t […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  60th Anniversary, Casey Stengel, Frank Thomas, Jay Hook, Joe Christopher, Mets Hall of Fame, Old Timers Day, Roger Craig, Ron Hunt, Team History, Vestibule Meat Loaf’s baserunner protagonist in the middle of “Paradise By The Dashboard Light,” this kid who really makes things happen out there, was probably helped along by his third base coach. Maybe not as he was rounding first and trying for second, because it’s on the runner to pick up the center fielder bobbling the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Coaches, Craig Bjornson, Eric Chavez, Jeremy Barnes, Jeremy Hefner, Joey Cora, Meat Loaf, Moment of Silence, Wayne Kirby Keith Hernandez filled the hole between the two and four spots in the batting order for seven Met seasons. He filled holes between himself and either the first base line or the second baseman on balls that seemed destined for the outfield. He filled the hole in the knowledge base of one promising young pitcher […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Keith Hernandez, Retired Numbers, Team History “There’s gonna be a lot of talk tonight,” Oscar Madison warned his audience during his tryout as a sports talk radio host in 1974. “Some of it you’ll like and some of it you won’t.” This was after he heeded his roommate Felix Unger’s advice and altered his style to reflect the hostility, sarcasm and […] The Mets turn 60 this year. They’re as old as the American League was when the Mets were first signing players in 1961, including their very first, a young feller named Bruce Fitzpatrick (Casey called him Fitzgerald) who not long ago told his story of being the original Met prospect. Bruce never made it to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Fitzpatrick, Dan Reilly, Jay Horwitz, Mascots, Moment of Silence, Mr. Met, Ron Swoboda The following scene occurred at Caledonian Hospital in Flatbush on this very afternoon in 1962. Or so I’ve decided 59 years after the fact. I know ya might be in th’ mood t’ wail yer lungs out, young feller, what seein’ ya just got yerself born, but no need t’ be spooked. It’s just yer ol’ […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Birthdays, Casey Stengel, Ed Kranepool, Larry Burright, New Year's Eve, Possibly Apocryphal Origin Stories, Ron Hunt, Tim Harkness Because The Tonight Show was taped in beautiful downtown Burbank, it didn’t seem odd that one summer night in 1979, Johnny Carson would include Tommy Lasorda while doing his Carnac the Magnificent bit. Playing to the Southern California studio audience was one of Johnny’s staples, and Chavez Ravine was certainly within driving distance. Carnac listed […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Sudakis, Dick Tidrow, Don Sutton, Duke Carmel, George Meyer, John Pazman, Mike Marshall, Moment of Silence, Norm Sherry, Phil Lombardi, Todd Feltman, Tommy Lasorda The last two instances of the Baseball Equinox, marking the spot when we sit equidistant between the final out of last season and the scheduled first pitch of next season, were rendered inoperative in retrospect once COVID had its way with them. The opening of the entire 2020 baseball season was pushed back to July […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, 2022 Mets, Baseball Equinox, New Year's Eve, No Guarantees Later this week I’ll be along with the Tenth Annual awarding of the Oscar’s Caps, recognizing the year in Mets Pop Culture. But one Mets pop culture sighting in particular was too big to confine to a sentence or paragraph amid a catalogue of other, albeit worthy sightings (all Mets pop culture sightings are worthy), […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, ESPN, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mets Pop Culture, Mookie Wilson, Nick Davis, Spike Lee In Bicentennial Detroit, when Mark Fidrych was in full flight, The Bird was the word. On TV in the 1950s, a duck delivered the $100 prize to contestants on You Bet Your Life who used Groucho Marx’s secret word. Frankie Valli ruffled few feathers when he informed us repeatedly in the summer of ’78 that […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Directions, First Place, Frankie Valli, Groucho Marx, Mark Fidrych, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Suffixes |
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