 
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. |
You may have noticed the New York Mets played no postseason games in 2025. To compensate for our favorite team’s autumnal shortfall, we are happy to have harvested a bushel of postseason Mets games as a coda to the completion of the most recent World Series…even if none of them is from 2025. Faith and Fear […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2022 Mets, 2024 Mets, Mets Postseason Games, Team History What a spectacular top of the first inning in Philadelphia Thursday night! And what a moving eight innings of respectful silence in the top halves of each frame that followed. That was pretty much that where the current Mets were concerned in their sixth consecutive loss. Thus, let us turn our attention to Mets of yore. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1969 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, Art Shamsky, Benny Agbayani, Ed Kranepool, Harrison Bader, Ike Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jim Bethke, Jim Marshall, Mets Alumni, Moment of Silence, Todd Zeile Some Met folklore a fan accepts without wondering about beyond what he’s already picked up. A bit of Metsiana that’s been with me for more than fifty years concerns some activity that preceded Game Four of the 1969 World Series. I picked up on it in 1971, a little late, but forgive me, I was […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, A.M. Gittlitz, Carlos Delgado, Dom Smith, Donn Clendenon, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mets Pop Culture, Movements, Pamphlets, Protests, Team History, Tom Seaver, Vietnam, Yippies The late, great Dennis D’Agostino had a forthright way of handling blank space in his seminal 1981 volume This Date in New York Mets History. For any date on which nothing discernibly Metsian had yet occurred (understandable, in that there hadn’t yet been two decades of official franchise operation), Dennis wrote, simply, “Nothing of importance […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Moment of Silence, Ron Taylor, Saves For years, I never forgot where I was when J.C. Martin laid down the bunt that led to the winning run that gave the Mets Game Four and a commanding Three-One lead in the 1969 World Series. I was in the Cozy Nook, the all-purpose luncheonette where I bought most of my baseball cards, magazines […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1969 World Series, First Impressions, J.C. Martin, Marilu Henner, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons Remove some obstacles — like a fence; the Payson Club; construction on the other side of Seaver Way; the Van Wyck; and a creek also identified as a river — and theoretically you could make a direct beeline from right field at Citi Field to Four Points by Sheraton Flushing, the fancy corporate name for […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Art Shamsky, Juan Soto, Mets Right Fielders, Queens Baseball Convention, Winter The first pitch that will carry the most weight in Game Three of the National League Championship Series will be thrown by Luis Severino. Our emotions will ride on that pitch and however many more Luis throws, each guaranteed our overwhelming support — despite Luis’s fondness for the black jerseys that will infiltrate our heretofore […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2024 Postseason, Ceremonial First Pitches, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Luis Severino, Matt Harvey, Robin Ventura, Yoenis Cespedes Good news: the Mets weren’t eliminated from winning their division Monday night, cleverly getting rained out while Atlanta (you’re not gonna believe this) lost. Not only did the Mets gain ground by not doing anything but pulling a tarp over the field, but Jeff McNeil overtook a declining Freddie Freeman in the batting race simply […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1997 Mets, National League East, Powerhouse Division, Rain, Team History You score 15 runs, what do you get? Enough peace of mind to carry you through an off day, I hope. The New York Mets, who entered Wednesday tied for first place in the National League East, exited Wednesday a half-game ahead of their closest competition. Not bad for a team declared deceased by a vocal […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2007 Mets, Alex Claudio, Bob Moose, Chris Bassitt, Jacob deGrom, Lloyd Bentsen, Questionable Invocation of Precedent, Tyler Naquin It’s Sunday night. The Mets haven’t won in more than a week. As if that’s not enough of a shame, our greatest miracle has been celebrated anew, and this is how our team responds in the present? What we could really use is a nice offensive explosion while everything is looking listless and limp, maybe […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2019 Mets, 2022 Mets, Almost Famous, Cleon Jones, Dana Brand, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Irene Hodges, Joely Rodriguez, Losing Streaks Snapped, Pete Alonso, Time |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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