This is Willie Mays of the New York Mets as captured by Topps for 1973. I still can’t believe he played for us. Based on content, I think this is my favorite card ever.
 
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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1972 Mets, Baseball Cards, Flashback Friday, Willie Mays And I don’t think I ever got Fred Norman. What am I going on about now? Click here. If you’ve almost made it to Saturday, then it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. I don’t know where I got the notion — maybe from a friend or from someone at school or from watching older kids at the five-and-dime — but one day in 1976 I made up my mind: I’m going […] Truly veteran readers of this blog may recall last year’s incarnation of this post, and so know that THB stands for “The Holy Books.” In which case your geek-proximity alarms just went off and you’re backing slowly away. Everybody else, here’s a quick refresher: I have a pair of binders, dubbed The Holy Books by Greg, […] BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! WARNING! INSANE GEEKERY AHEAD! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! OK, anybody left? Being more than slightly nuts, I have a pair of binders, dubbed The Holy Books by Greg. They contain baseball cards — specifically, one baseball card for every Met on the all-time roster. They’re ordered by year, with each year containing a card for […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Al Schmelz, Baseball Cards, Lost Mets, The Holy Books, Tommy Moore Wow, a Royce Ring sighting. That reminds me of a story for an off-day. Be advised that this story has almost nothing to do with actual baseball. In other words…. Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Geek Alarm! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! We’ve occasionally discussed The Holy Books, my pair of binders collecting baseball cards for all the Mets since 1962: […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Rich Sauveur, Royce Ring, The Holy Books In case any other lunatic out there has spent years looking for a decent photo of Al Schmelz, this is probably as close as you can get. For the truly geeky, it’s a composite from the team photo in the ’67: That’s Schmelz’s face, upper chest and arms, Don Cardwell’s lower chest and belt (Tommy Davis is […] |
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