 
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. |
Welcome to Flashback Friday: Take Me Out to 34 Ballparks, a celebration, critique and countdown of every major league ballpark one baseball fan has been fortunate enough to visit in a lifetime of going to ballgames. BALLPARK: Busch Stadium (New) 1. Ike Davis made an ugly error last night. But you were surprised, weren’t you? When Daniel Murphy or Carlos Delgado made an error, you weren’t surprised at all. And Ike’s still learning. 2. Somewhere out there, some kid spent today staring at the back of his or her first Mets baseball card, soaking up information […] As Games Behind go, my rule of thumb for holding out the slightest Met hope before September is 7½. I adopted it in August of 1973. The Mets were buried in the National League East cellar, but it was a shallow enough grave so that I could invest a modicum of faith in the concept […]  19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, Brian McCann, Davey Johnson, Defiance, Jerry Manuel, Life Support, Mike Pelfrey, Nolan Ryan, Thirds, Wally Backman ’Twas a victory of and for the Damned. Damned Castillo. Damned Francoeur. Damned Rodriguez. Damned Mets and their perpetually damning fans. We won the damn thing! Y’know what, I’m not even gonna give ya the spiel about it’s just one game. Of course it’s just one game. That’s what a baseball season is: 162 episodes of just […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Carter, Francisco Rodriguez, Jeff Francouer, Jerry Reed, John Mellencamp, Luis Castillo, Manny Acosta, R.A. Dickey By now I’m not even mad at them. No, the worst I can manage while watching the Mets stagger around and lose is a weary exasperation. The competitive portion of the 2010 season is nearing its end, and whatever disappointment I felt over that has dissipated by now. You never know, as baseball sages will tell […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Acceptance, Disappointment, Hope, Luis Castillo, Oliver Perez, Omar Minaya, Ownership “Thank you. This is really, really amazing. And it feels so good to be home.” So said Doc Gooden Sunday as he was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame, and he couldn’t have been more correct — for him or for us. On some level, Dwight Gooden’s been wandering the periphery of Metsdom […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Dwight Gooden, Frank Cashen, Mets Hall of Fame In the spring of 1980, the New Yorker’s Roger Angell was making his incomparable annual rounds and alighted on St. Petersburg for a morning B-squad game between Joe Torre’s Mets and their neighbors, Ken Boyer’s Cardinals. The rookie getting everybody’s attention that March was St. Louis’s big first baseman Leon Durham — “he is called […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, Al Harazin, Billy Beane, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Roberts, Dwight Gooden, Frank Cashen, Leon Durham, Mets Hall of Fame, Mike Cubbage, Roger Angell, Rusty Staub, Team History, Vince Coleman The perfect team needs no enhancements at the trading deadline. Enhancements are for teams with glaring imperfections, first-place outfits like the Cardinals, the Padres, the Braves, the Yankees. They admitted their imperfections by making trades. So much for them. Perfection is obviously embodied in the tied-for-third place Mets, a club that stood pat Saturday afternoon […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Hisanori Takahashi, Jesus Feliciano, Kirk Gibson, Manny Acosta, Omar Minaya Part 1: Friday Night Frights Went to see the Mets play ball. Lovely evening, and great company in my pals Wayne and Amanda, the latter a visitor and, horrible to say, a Yankee fan. (She was also a model guest — I didn’t once hear the number 27, an invocation of rings or a sentence ended […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Heilman, Albert Pujols, Blogging, Carlos Beltran, Chip Hale, Citi Field, Dave Racaniello, David Wright, Jeff Francoeur, Jose Reyes, Randy Niemann, Raul Valdes, Reporters Growing up I heard the theme from the terrible movie St. Elmo’s Fire a little while ago. I make it sound as if it was an accident, but it’s on a playlist of what I call, with characteristic understatement, The Top 500 […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, Dwight Gooden, Mets Hall of Fame, St. Elmo's Fire, Youth |
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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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