 
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. |
Update: Here’s this story revisited for NPR. Near the end of winter my neighbor’s younger brother died unexpectedly. Emily and I are friendly with our neighbor, and offered him our condolences. But we don’t really know each other, for all the usual city reasons that you regret on one level but mostly look past while you’re […]  35 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Cards, Bill Dillman, Moment of Silence, Team History, The Holy Books The Mets Hall of Fame & Museum is Amazin’, Amazin’, Amazin’, yet it has to share honors as the most Amazin’ upgrade at Citi Field in 2010 with the quiet and most welcome infusion of Jane Jarvis into the sound system. You know what plays over the loudspeakers when the Mets take the field now? Jane’s […] An amusing, apocryphal anecdote alluding to Gibson’s legendary power is told about a home run he hit in Pittsburgh. The ball jumped out of the park like it was shot out of a cannon, clearing the fence and sailing out of sight. The next day, in Philadelphia, a ball came down out of the sky […] Baseball isn’t really a team game. We talk of it as if it is one, but with a couple of exceptions (relay throws, hit-and-runs) it’s really a game of individual acts. The pitcher makes his pitch or doesn’t, the batter hits it or doesn’t, a fielder catches it or doesn’t. These individual acts get strung together […] “Citi Field,” according to the 2010 Mets Media Guide, is “home to one of the longest ribbon boards in baseball.” That is most definitely not one of the Top 1,000 most interesting facts to be found in this otherwise indispensable publication. For that matter, the ribbon boards, when they’re flashing advertisements that have zero to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Angel Pagan, Bill Shea Bridge, Braves, Citi Field, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, Hisanori Takahashi, Ike Davis, Infield Fly Rule, Jason Bay, Joe Christopher, John Maine, Jose Reyes, Nagging Regret, Opportunity, Ribbon Boards, Ron Hunt, Sacrifice Flies, Steve Trachsel, Triples 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: Comiskey Park (New) New […] In case you haven’t turned on ESPN in the last week, the NFL Draft is in progress. It began Thursday night and it runs through late June. Makes for captivating theater, as in you’d have to hold me captive to get me to sit inside Radio City Music Hall for all 481 rounds of it. Correction: […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, David Wright, Ed Kranepool, Football, Frankie Rodriguez, Ike Davis, Johan Santana Violinist Issac Stern played great music. Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote great fiction. First baseman Issac Benjamin Davis made a helluva catch on a foul popup in the first inning of Wednesday’s otherwise desultory Met loss. All these Isaacs were blessed with a talent for doing something most people can’t. Stern was awarded the Presidential Medal […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Carlos Baerga, Dave Roberts, David Cone, David Newhan, Elliott Maddox, George Foster, Greg Goossen, Ike Davis, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isaac Stern, Jim Fregosi, Joe Ginsberg, Manny Acosta, Metropolitan-American, Mike Jacobs, Norm Sherry, Scott Schoeneweis, Seaverite, Shawn Green, Tobi Stoner, Woody Allen [T]he only name anyone sings in the Yorkshire ale houses, raising their stinking jars to their stinking mouths, is Brian Clough. Brian Clough über-fucking-alles! Understand? I don’t know when it will be 2006 again for the Mets. I don’t know when we’ll have a regular season in which we praise our lads […] Watching Mike Pelfrey obliterate the Cubs and the Mets hitters do enough, I felt something I hadn’t felt since Opening Day. Or rather, I noted the absence of something. Panic. In 2009, a late two-run lead for the Mets was called foreshadowing. In the first week of the season it was a fantasy, as the Mets weren’t […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Injuries, Jose Reyes, Mike Pelfrey, Ryota Igarashi |
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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