 
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. |
If you’ve ever met me outside Citi Field to go to a game, I’ve probably added a minute or two to our entrance because I always insist on detouring to check on my brick, the one that reads: OUR FIRST DATE The brick commemorates the first time my future wife and I […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1975 Mets, 1987 Mets, 1993 Mets, Gene Clines, Jeff Innis, Moment of Silence, Pirates Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. When I was a teenager, a lot of people assumed I’d be a sportswriter. Which made a lot of sense: I loved baseball and writing, so why not put the two together? But I […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1987 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Billy Beane, Calvin Schiraldi, Darren Daulton, Dave Smith, Fenway Park, Lenny Dykstra, Marty Noble, Oil Can Boyd, Phillies, Ron Darling, Wally Backman Breaking news: Mets starting pitcher actually gets win! A Mets starter hadn’t done that in 19 games, tying a club record set in the less than sterling 1980 season. Seth Lugo said “no more” Saturday night, allowing just a solo homer to Rhys Hoskins over five innings and fanning eight. Of course, if Lugo’s starting that […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 2020 Mets, Dominic Smith, Edwin Diaz, Erasmo Ramirez, Juan Lagares, Michael Conforto, Patrick Mazeika, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Strange Events, Todd Frazier Zack Wheeler, in his fifth major league season of actually pitching as opposed to healing, has never pitched for a Mets team that finished with a winning record. The only two good seasons during his injury-interrupted tenure were the seasons he missed with Tommy John surgery and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1999 Mets, Adeiny Hechavarria, Carlos Gomez, Over .500, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Team History, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler It was a June evening, the season before this last one, at Citi Field, by one of those tables out beyond center field where you stand and you chat and you chew. The combination momentarily got the best of me as a crumb went down the wrong […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, An Appreciation, Moment of Silence, Stats for Nuts, Terry Pendleton, William Goldman, Willie McGee In light of recent staff-depleting events, I’ve found myself thinking of two names embedded in my baseball consciousness as very specific avatars relevant to our current situation: Marty Bystrom and John Candelaria. Candelaria you might recognize as a veteran pitcher who was acquired by the Mets under stressful circumstances. It was the middle of September […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Grizzled Veterans, John Candelaria, Marty Bystrom, Robert Gsellman, September, Unheralded Rookies Casey and Joan get together again for a little Mets baseball. Mets fans wait. It’s what we do. We waited through four barren seasons to have National League baseball in the first place, only to wait seven seasons stuck in ninth or tenth place. The Jobian patience mandated by the minute progress of the earliest […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Anthony Recker, Casey Stengel, Cody Ross, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, John Buck, Kevin McReynolds, Kirk Gibson, Post Traumatic Mets Disorder, Rain Delays Thursday night at 7:30, when you’ll have gone about 24 hours without Mets baseball and be Jonesing more than you can imagine for fresh Mets content, turn to SNY and feast your eyes on the debut of Mets Yearbook: 1987. It covers a season I remember unfondly for its failure to be 1986 (worst…92-win year…ever!) but in a […] It’s good to know, in some perverse way, that with only two weeks remaining in the flat-out, most embarrassing second half the Mets have ever matriculated down the field, a given Mets loss can still rankle me enough to make me kick a plastic beer cup until it makes a thwack almost as loud as […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1989 Mets, Barry Lyons, David Wright, Don Aase, Ed Kranepool, Josh Edgin, Kelly Downs, Matt Harvey, Ryan Howard, Willie Randolph Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 118th game in any Mets season, the “best” 119th game in any Mets season, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, Darryl Strawberry, Fiftieth Anniversary, Mookie Wilson, Octavio Dotel, Team History, The Happiest Recap |
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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