 
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 promoted from within. Promoting from within is very big in my family.” Once upon a time, some team that wasn’t the Mets did something that got the commissioner’s attention, and ultimately the Mets benefited. Maybe it’s déjà vu all over again 54 years later. Summoning the greatest fortune-laden precedent in Mets lore […]  17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Barry Bremen, Brodie Van Wagenen, Carlos Beltran, Felipe Alou, Jesus Alou, Luis Rojas, Matty Alou, Mel Rojas, Mets Managers, Moises Alou, Quality Control, The West Wing “I just can’t wait to rewrite our story.” Baseball is stories as much as it’s statistics; it’s equal parts narrative and numbers; it’s four cups of emotion for every quart of analytics. Baseball is also rules, exceptions and the narrowest of hallways between those two opposing walls. The rules, written and otherwise, have […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Postseason, 2018 Postseason, A.J. Hinch, Alex Cora, Carlos Beltran, Compartmentmalization, FanFest, Jeff Luhnow, Managerial Decisions Gone Awry, Mets Managers, Sign-Stealing The Mets should definitely keep Carlos Beltran as their manager for the coming season. The Mets should definitely replace Carlos Beltran as their manager for the coming season. Major League Baseball did not suspend any of the Astros players for electronic sign-stealing. Major League Baseball singled out Beltran among all players as part of its report on electronic […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Managerial Job Security, Sign-Stealing, Uneasy Answers Another year in the books! Another decade in the books! And another class of matriculating Mets to welcome to The Holy Books! Background: I have a trio of binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books (THB) by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time roster. They’re in order of arrival in […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Aaron Altherr, Adeiny Hechavarria, Baseball Cards, Brad Brach, Brooks Pounders, Chris Mazza, Donnie Hart, Edwin Diaz, Hector Santiago, J.D. Davis, Jed Lowrie, Joe Panik, Justin Wilson, Keon Broxton, Luis Avilan, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Rajai Davis, Robinson Cano, Ryan O'Rourke, Sam Haggerty, Stephen Nogosek, The Holy Books, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font, Wilson Ramos I admittedly know nothing about ranching, but if ranches are prone to wild boar attacks, then I can’t really blame Yoenis Cespedes for taking steps to prevent a wild boar from attacking him on his ranch. And if a wild boar winds up breaking free of the trap set by the proprietor of stately La […] I learned two things from watching Brodie Van Wagenen’s official introduction of Dellin Betances on Thursday, as streamed by SNY: 1) Brodie Van Wagenen believes we are more interested in negotiation protocols and processes than we actually are. Stop telling us what miracles you and your compatriots have worked by hammering out a contract offer to […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Hassler, Bests, Brodie Van Wagenen, Dellin Betances, Don Larsen, Moment of Silence The first time I learned the word “decade” was just a tick over fifty years ago, December 31, 1969. It was my seventh birthday, which was cause enough for me to obsess on numbers; I decided I liked being 7 a bunch more than I liked being 6. It was also New Year’s Eve, which […] ’Cause it all begins again when it ends. My December festival of retrospective introspection (or introspective retrospection) feels like it’s reached a logical endpoint here on the last day of the month, the last day of the year, and have I mentioned it’s the last day of the decade? Also, it’s my birthday — happy […] Melancholy is apparently one of my favorite flavors, and it doesn’t take much for me to dig a pint of it out of the freezer and devour most of it in a single sitting. Take the news of October 4, 1981, announcing that Joe Torre had been fired as manager of the New York Mets. […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Bob Friend, Bob Johnson, Cornelia Street Cafe, Dave Marshall, David Corcoran Peter Putrimas, Eric Cooper, Francisco Estrada, Gary Kolb, James Ingram, Jerry Buchek, Jim Bouton, Joe Grzenda, John Delcos, John Strohmayer, Jose Moreno, Larry Foss, Leroy Stanton, Marty Noble, Mel Stottlemyre, Moment of Silence, Pumpsie Green, Rick Down, Ron Fairly, Sammy Taylor, Ted Lepcio, Tom Hausman, Turn of the Corkscrew, Vera Clemente You had to love how Oscar Madison covered sports. For example, the New York Herald columnist was assigned a Jets-Dolphins tilt for first place, but his roommate Felix Unger, paralyzed by a fear of flying, convinced him to accompany him on a flight Houston by persuading him that his talents would be better challenged writing […] |
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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