We haven’t asked Julio Franco to conjure his connective chronological magic in quite a while, but today — on the heels of one his old teams (the Mets) defeating another of his old teams (the Phlllies, by a score of 6-3, thanks in large part to Zac Thornton’s six-innings of sterling pitching and Juan Soto’s […]
 
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. |
Tuesday night at Citi Field was a game for icons. Dolly Parton’s music played to seemingly unanimous approval, one of those ballpark as public square moments that reminds a person that when something or somebody needs to be commemorated or celebrated — even if the subject isn’t baseball — a ballpark is the place to […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brewers, Dave Kingman, Dolly Parton, Francisco Lindor, Icons, Moment of Silence, Rey Ordonez, Ryder Chasin Eli Manning sits this Sunday. Technically, he stands on a sideline, bearing a clipboard, wearing a headset, doing whatever is done when backing up a starting quarterback. It will be the first time he has done so in so long that I can’t link to what we were posting when it last happened, because that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Eli Manning, Football, Icons, John Franco, Ron Darling, Time |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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