 
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. |
Tom Seaver is 75 years old today. We join the multitudes of baseball fans in wishing him a happy birthday and a happy day every day. We miss him. He’s still with us in the most elemental sense, yet we wish he could assert his presence like he did not so long ago. A ceremonial first […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, Milestones, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday I blinked. And I blinked again. Maybe I rubbed my eyes. I don’t remember. Whatever I did, it left me seeing a trail of optical detritus. It was just what wasn’t there but briefly appeared to be. I was six, a first-grader. I had no idea how eyesight worked, just that it worked. But I […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1969 World Series, Anniversaries, Fortuitously Timed Eye Doctor Appointments, Origins If you set your DVR to record Seaver on Sunday or early Monday, you may think your unit was manufactured by M. Donald Grant, for neither the scheduled 4:30 PM showing on Channel 5 in New York nor the 1:00 AM airing on FS1 went off hitchless. That’s the danger in saying something will run […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Documentaries, Media Guide Guy, Tom Seaver “At 10:13 P.M., it became officially official. The Cubs had lost, 6-2. Even if the Mets lost the second game, they would still be first. Millennium, we are here. But the Mets were no longer in a mood to lose anything.” 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 1969 Mets, Amed Rosario, Cramps, Curtis Granderson, Doubleheader Sweeps, Ed Kranepool, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jeff Brigham, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto, Over .500, Pete Alonso, Radio and TV Not in Sync, Robert Dugger, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Solo Home Runs, The West Wing, Tom Seaver, Walker Lockett All Mets fans who were around for 1969 enjoyed 1969 in their own way. My friend Garry Spector, who was eleven, enjoyed it so much it drove him to tears. Garry recently penned a sweet reminiscence on the always exquisite Perfect Pitch blog (the unique baseball/musical diamond tended by Metropolitan Opera oboist and Metropolitan Baseball […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Ed Charles, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Joy, Poetry Repeatedly as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Mets, I get slightly irked. Not by the celebration or the feat celebrated but by a tiny detail that is continually reported inaccurately. Those Mets, it keep getting said, fell ten games behind the Cubs in the National League East in mid-August before turning their […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2017 Mets, Edwin Diaz, Half-Games, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeurys Familia, Ken Johnson, Replay Review, Rocky III, Spiritually Eliminated, Statistical Obsessions When I first started identifying as a Mets fan, fifty years ago late this summer, you couldn’t have convinced me the Mets could do wrong. There was no evidence to support the assertion. The Mets mostly won. The rare defeat, such as that experienced by the Mets in Baltimore to open the World Series, was […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2019 Mets, Anniversaries, Celebrations, Chris Mazza, Ed Kranepool, Howie Rose, Jesse Hudson, Jim Gosger, Losing Streaks, Milestones, Old Timers Day Up they haven’t given, though up they haven’t gotten. After every Mets loss, of which there’ve been myriad, I hear the manager and selected players tell postgame questioners, “Nobody here has given up.” That’s admirable on the surface, implicit in the job description, ineffectual in the final score. The Mets don’t give up. They come to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Braves, Grim Forecast, Jacob deGrom, Losing Streaks, Not Giving Up, Pete Alonso, Relief Pitching, Robert Gsellman, Trying Team On Saturday afternoon, July 17, 1976, I saw Lloyd Waner hit and Tom Seaver pitch. Same place, different games. Waner appeared in the Old Timers Game at sunny Shea Stadium. At 13, I considered it a hoot that someone from the dusty pages of baseball’s distant past stood in the box and swung the bat, […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1976 Mets, 41 Seaver Way, Lloyd Waner, Old Timers Day, Past, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler My first numerical obsession as a baseball fan developed in the waning days of the 1969 regular season. There was nothing waning about late September and early October if you loved the Mets, but I did catch on, at age six, to the finite nature of the schedule, so I figured out that the Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Age, Brooks Pounders, Chuck Hernandez, Coaches, Cubs, Dave Eiland, Jeremy Accardo, Julio Franco, Pete Alonso, Phil Regan, Ricky Bones, Todd Frazier, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font |
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. 
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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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