 
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. |
Last week, Major League Baseball released its schedule for next year and I shrugged. It was the epitome of too soon. But last year, when this year’s came out, I figuratively unfolded it and zeroed in on one particular box in quest of pertinent information: Would the Mets be home on July 11, 2023? They would not. […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anniversaries, Beeping, Bill Veeck, Camp Day, Citi Field, Fountains of Wayne, Jeff McNeil Calling Himself Safe to No Avail, Jose Quintana, Loners in a Mood, Midweek Afternoon Games, Omar Narvaez, Promenade, Shea Stadium, Stolen Glances from Ramps, Unnatural Memory for Dates, White Sox On July 11, 2023, the National League defeated the American League in an All-Star Game for the first time since 2012, which added a flourish to the 50th Anniversary celebration of this correspondent’s first game at Shea Stadium, which occurred on July 11, 1973. To commemorate the seminal occasion, I dug into the Faith and […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bud Harrelson, Camp Day, FAFIF Classics, Felix Millan, First Impressions, Jerry Koosman, Jim Fregosi, Jim McAndrew, Lee May, Leo Durocher, M. Donald Grant, Marvin the Counselor, Mets Yearbook, Rich Chiles, Shea Stadium, Tommie Agee, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays One look at the dark clouds encroaching from the west led me to an unassailable conclusion, which I shared with my friend Joe as we sat waiting in the third row of Promenade, section 508, for the top of the ninth inning to commence Thursday afternoon. “End times,” I declared mostly seriously, “are coming.” Joe glanced up […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bette Midler, Camp Day, Carlos Gomez, Citi Field, Humidity, Jeurys Familia, Justin Upton, Rain Delays, Trades, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler It was Camp Day at Citi Field Thursday, where I don’t know how many thousands of kids were getting their first live exposure to Mets baseball the way I did 40 years ago this month on my Camp Day. Given that these outings cast a dragnet over the lot of a camp’s participants and not […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Camp Day, Ground-Rule Triple, LOBs, Noise Meters |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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