With your first selection of what to do on Thursday night, June 15, at 7 o’clock, I hope you’ll choose to make a visit to Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, 67 E. 11th St. in Manhattan. I’ll be there talking about my book Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star with gracious owner and podcast host Jay Goldberg, going […]
 
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. |
Jimmy Piersall and the Mets might not have been the best fit when they came together for 40 games in 1963, but no .194 hitter ever left behind a more camera-ready legacy. The story’s been told as much as any from the second season of New York Mets baseball. Piersall, who had his talents and […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1963 Mets, Casey Stengel, Dallas Green, Jimmy Piersall, Josh Edgin, Moment of Silence, Neil Walker, Replay Review, Seventh-Inning Stretch, Terry Collins, Tim Harkness, What Now With This Team? Lots of seasons don’t go quite the way you fantasize — your team’s undone by some combination of poor performances, bad decisions, ill health, lousy luck, or just by not being as good as the competition. By late spring you figure your October will be free; by summer you’re thinking about next season. Which is all OK […] Lucas Duda’s second home run had just left the building and perhaps the solar system. The Mets’ seventh run of the evening was crossing the plate, their lead over the Pirates was reaching three and it was only the fifth inning. My good friend Jeff, once he was done jumping up and down like the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dreamy Offensive Onslaughts, Hideous T-Shirts, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Nightmarish Pitching Performances, Paul Sewald Brewers 2 Mets 1. Not the outcome of choice in these parts, but a reassuring baseball score for a sunny Thursday afternoon. If you’re gonna lose by a run…well don’t, but if you have to, do it neatly, quickly and move on. Two-one without extra innings implies satisfying efficiency. Yet this game lingered too long to […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1978 Mets, Brewers, Chase Anderson, Terry Collins, Time, Two-One Games, Umpiring, Wayward Bat Boys, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler Pitching’s hard. You knew that. But dig into everything involved with pitching and you wind up amazed that anyone can do it at all. Never mind, for a moment, the routine and chronic physical danger inherent in it — the stress and pain of doing something unnatural and damaging over and over again. And put aside the rare but […] I had hoped Tyler Pill might be Grover Powell. Grover Powell’s first major league start, for the Mets in 1963, was a complete game shutout, which didn’t happen for Mets rookies every day in 1963, nor, come to think of it, today. Before long, Tyler Pill 2017, who reacted well to the lights in Flushing […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Domingo Santana, Fog, Frank Deford, Grover Powell, Jay Bruce, Joel Youngblood, Josh Smoker, Luis Castillo, Manny Gonzalez, Mike Scioscia, Moment of Silence, Rick Anderson, Shaun Marcum, T.J. Rivera, The Mets Subconscious, Tyler Pill Our blog pal Shannon Shark of MetsPolice has a running gag in which he imagines the Mets aren’t a ballclub but a TV show, with Greg as its fiendishly inventive show runner. Confronted with games such as Monday afternoon’s, I wonder if Shannon might be on to something. Last week, you’ll recall, Terry Collins caught hell from a fair-sized […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, C.B. Bucknor, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins A couple of times in my life, I’ve witnessed someone forget to engage the parking brake while on a slight incline. (OK, once I was that person.) The car doesn’t move all that swiftly at first on its journey to where it’s not supposed to be, but its momentum builds steadily and pretty soon the slow-motion disaster has become inevitable, […] Long before “happy birthday to all the fathers out there” became what we love to quote on the third Sunday every June, a Mets-savvy person was likely to reflexively link Ralph Kiner and Father’s Day via the most impressive thing Jim Bunning ever did for public consumption. Bunning threw a perfect game on Father’s Day […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Applause for a Visitor, Howie Rose, Jim Bunning, Moment of Silence, Perfect Games, Ralph Kiner, Shea Stadium |
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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