A dozen years ago, after some dabbling on ancestry.com, I connected with a same-last-name relative living on the West Coast. She wasn’t exactly distant or long lost, but I’d had only the vaguest notion of her existence, and I don’t think that she’d ever heard of me. Stephanie and I met her and a friend […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Family, Gil Hodges, Joan Payson, Queens Baseball Convention After a brief flurry of optimism or at least acceptance, garbage time is officially back. Before the season, a late August Mets-Angels tilt looked like one to circle on the calendar. Who wouldn’t exult in the prospect of watching Pete Alonso and Kodai Senga go up against Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout on two playoff-bound […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Angels, Casey Stengel, Danny Mendick, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, David Wright, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Gil Hodges, Howard Johnson, Jackie Robinson, Jerry Koosman, Jesse Orosco, Joey Cora, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Kelvin Torve, Kodai Senga, Last Place, Marlon Anderson, Mike Piazza, Randal Grichuk, Retired Numbers, Shohei Ohtani, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays What I have in common with Baseball Hall of Famer Gil Hodges I could count on very few fingers, but it delights me that one of them is a ring finger. Gil earned three World Series rings, two as a player in 1955 and 1959, one as a manager in 1969. I was presented with […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Endy Chavez, Gil Hodges, Irene Hodges, Jay Horwitz, Marvin Kaplan, Queens Baseball Convention, The West Wing 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 The first two games of the much-anticipated Mets-Dodgers series showed the Mets in an unfamiliar light: They looked like a good team up against a better one, with that better team riding dominant pitching and waiting for its opponent to make a mistake, then taking full advantage. And in the early going, Saturday night’s game looked […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brusdar Graterol, Buck Showalter, Colin Holderman, David Peterson, Dodgers, Gil Hodges, Horrendous Uniforms, Luis Guillorme, Mookie Betts, Pete Alonso, Walker Buehler I no longer have to tell you why Gil Hodges belongs in the Hall of Fame, and you no longer have to tell me why Gil Hodges belongs in the Hall of Fame, and we no longer have to tell anybody why Gil Hodges belongs in the Hall of Fame. That’s because Gil Hodges is in […] On November 8, the Monday before last, Edgardo Alfonzo turned 48. On November 16, this past Tuesday, Dwight Gooden turned 57. On November 17, today, Tom Seaver would have turned 77. Being a diehard fan means knowing when your favorite players — Tom, Doc and Fonzie are my Top Three — began to live. Being […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Arnold Hano, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Fandom, Gil Hodges, Moment of Silence, Nassau County, New York Giants, November, Polo Grounds, Queens Baseball Convention, Ron Hunt, Shannon Forde, Steve Somers, Tom Seaver's Birthday, WFAN, Willie Mays It isn’t a beautiful night at normally beautiful Wrigley Field, as the Mets have fallen further behind the Chicago Cubs, and now manager Luis Rojas comes out of the dugout to have a word with home plate umpire Bruce Dreckman, apparently ready to make a change to his lineup. After conferring with Dreckman, Luis walks […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Casey Stengel, Cold, David Peterson, Errors, Francisco Lindor, Gil Hodges, J.D. Davis, Luis Guillorme, Luis Rojas, Pete Alonso, Position Players Pitching, Radio, Redeeming Features, Team History, Wrigley Field 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. The biggest moment in Mets history is also one of the quietest. You’ve seen it: With two outs in the ninth of Game 5 of the 1969 World Series, Davey Johnson hits a fly […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1968 Mets, 1969 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Cleon Jones, Gil Hodges, M. Donald Grant, Tommie Aaron, Tommie Agee, Yogi Berra 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. Hark ye yet again—the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Al Schmelz, Alaska Goldpanners, Andy Messersmith, Baseball Cards, Bill Denehy, Bing Devine, Danny Frisella, Don Cardwell, Gil Hodges, Jerry Hinsley, Julian Javier, Keith Olbermann, Ken Boyer, Pitchers, The Holy Books, Tim McCarver, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Wes Westrum |
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