 
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. |
The poor Orioles are getting killed at Citi Field, and they don’t have a clue. Yesterday it was R.A. Dickey, armed with a knuckleball that was for all intents and purposes unhittable, one he used to write the latest chapter of his remarkable story. Greg chronicled R.A.’s second straight one-hitter here yesterday; today Roger Angell — our […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Fans, Johan Santana, Mike Baxter, No-Hitters, PItching, R.A. Dickey Did the Citi Field scoreboard start every Oriole batter’s count at 0 balls and 2 strikes Monday night? You know, just to save time? I’ve seen hitters obviously overmatched by pitchers. I’ve seen hitters who it could be assumed had little chance against dominant pitchers in ungodly grooves. I’ve seen hitters who had to know it […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, One-Hitters, R.A. Dickey, Unhittable Sunday was Father’s Day. My kid woke me up with a card he’d made. It showed us in the stands, with the figure in green with a mitt on one hand and a ball descending toward the two figures’ outstretched arms. The card read HOME RUN! Pretty nice way to start the day. We got to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Dusty Baker, Fans, Fathers and Sons, Pepsi Porch “I’m not sayin’ he should’ve killed her. But I understand.” Jon Niese threw one very bad pitch very early, Jay Bruce hit it very far and Saturday night’s ballgame was very over. Unfortunately another 8½ innings needed to be played and another 8½-thousand content-free words had to be needlessly issued via the […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Etiquette, Injuries, Jason Bay, Mets Fans From hauling in the last out to partaking of the first slice, he’s still Cleon Jones. 10. Jason Bay. Ohmigod, wasn’t that awful? Naked Gun awful. I’m surprised the poor bastard’s head didn’t roll into foul territory. What’s left to say? 9. Scott Hairston. The Man for a night, albeit a lousy night on the field. […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Childlike Wonder, Cleon Jones, Jason Bay, Left Fielders, Pizza, REO Speedwagon, Scott Hairston Good luck outguessing baseball: After kicking the ball around and losing two out of three to the Nats and then getting kicked around by the Yankees for a horrifying sweep, the Mets absolutely flattened the Tampa Bay Rays for a sweep of their own, turning an imminently horrific 1-5 road trip into a respectable 4-5 […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dave Hudgens, David Wright, Jason Bay, Johan Santana, Lucas Duda, Omar Quintanilla From: Clueless Editor <cluelesseditor@limitedimaginationpublishing.net> Dear Mr. Plimpton: We are in receipt of your book proposal, The Curiouser Case of R.A. Dickey and regret to inform you it does not suit our needs at this time. While your lead character R.A. Dickey is richly drawn, and his […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | George Plimpton, Literary License, One-Hitters, R.A. Dickey, Sidd Finch, Team History It’s not a good sign when you miss nearly all of the Subway Series, then are relieved that your team has an off-day. I was at my 25th high-school reunion over the weekend, and so the Debacle in the Bronx was reduced to occasional bleary, baleful glowers at my phone, with the exception of a couple […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Jordany Valdespin, Keith Hernandez, Tropicana Field We know best-selling author R.A. Dickey is a person as well as a top-notch pitcher, and we like that about him, because it gives us one more reason to find him, as he likes to say, trustworthy. If you’d like to discover more R.A. for yourself, as I did, he’ll be signing copies of Wherever […] And this was before the Subway Series. Movies are almost always better when there’s a Mets element to them, whether it’s outsized, as in the key 1969 scenes from the current release Men In Black 3, or subtle, as in 1987’s Moonstruck, which had nothing explicit to do with the Mets back in the day […] |
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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