 
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. |
What Met tidings do the ides of March bring this spring? I’d like to believe glad, though in the middle a month devoted to merely getting ready for the season ahead, who can tell? Two sentences, two question marks. Only in March? Always in March. Entering the action of March 15, which includes a game matching Met […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Darryl Strawberry, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, J.D. Martinez, Jeff McNeil, Jim McAndrew, Jose Quintana, Kodai Senga, March, Moment of Silence, Spring Training 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 Those wisps of smoke visible in the autumn sky remind us that this has been a busy birthday week amid the lofty heights of the Mets’ Mount Pitchmore, with Dwight Gooden turning 58 on November 16 and the 78th anniversary of Tom Seaver being born having come around on November 17. Next date to celebrate, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alay Soler, Bob Apodaca, Bob Moorhead, Bob Myrick, Brent Gaff, Chris Schwinden, Corey Oswalt, Craig Swan, David Peterson, Dwight Gooden, Eric Hillman, Jacob deGrom, Jason Isringhausen, Jenrry Mejia, Jeremy Hefner, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Lifetime Mets, Loopholes, Mike Bruhert, Mount Pitchmore, PItching, Randy Tate, Scott Holman, Seth Lugo, Team History, Team Records That Are Absolutely Crazy, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday, Tylor Megill, William DeVaughn The Mets won by shutout. Their starter went at least eight-and-a-third innings. He gave up no more than three hits and got the win. According to Baseball Reference, those specific boxes have been checked 119 times in franchise history, about twice a year since 1962. It’s a total that includes some of the most memorable […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1968 Mets, Adam Duvall, AJ Ramos, Bill Short, Cal Koonce, Gil Hodges, Jim McAndrew, Joey Votto, One-Hitters, Rafael Montero, Reds, Scooter Gennett, Team History, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver As a service to New York Mets fans who find themselves encountering an unfamiliar concept, Faith and Fear in Flushing provides the following helpful primer. Welcome to the battle for second place! Yeah, I thought I heard something about that. Can you explain what this is exactly? With Monday night’s loss by the reeling Braves to the Pirates, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jim McAndrew, Sandy Alderson, Second Place, Team History, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver Bravo, pretty much without exception and with only limited debate, for the 50th Anniversary Mets’ All-Time Team as revealed Sunday night at the 92nd Street Y and broadcast Thursday night on SNY. The committee empowered to choose the all-timers — Howie Rose, Gary Cohen, Marty Noble, John Harper, Mike Vaccaro and Mike Lupica — gave […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 50th Anniversary, All-Time Team, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, David Wright, Dennis Cook, Edgardo Alfonzo, Endy Chavez, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Joel Youngblood, Jose Reyes, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Mitchell, Melvin Mora, Mike Piazza, Rick Reed, Rod Kanehl, Roger McDowell, Rusty Staub, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Terry Leach, Todd Pratt, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Turk Wendell Friday night was an extraordinary pitchers’ duel. The only thing that would have made it perfect would have been a better result, both in terms of reversing the identities of the winning and losing teams and if Johan Santana had, like Yovani Gallardo, pitched all nine innings in the process. This is not a rant about […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1996 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2005 Mets, Cory Lidle, Don Cardwell, Dual Complete Games, Gary Gentry, Glendon Rusch, Jack DiLauro, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Mike Maddux, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Paul Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Pedro Martinez, Relief Pitching, Rick Reed, Ryota Igarashi, Shawn Estes, Starting Pitching, Takashi Kashiwada, Team History, Tom Seaver, Wayne Granger, Yovani Gallardo Winning in 20 innings by using 24 Mets who accumulated 9 hits despite batting against 2 Cardinal position players for the last 3 of those innings has generated some truly deep thinking among our readers, as evidenced by our unusually busy (for a Sunday) comments section and in-box. It’s great stuff, particularly the following, an […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1985 Mets, 2010 Mets, Al Jackson, Bill Russell, Billy Cowan, Bob Shaw, Bobby Klaus, Bud Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Cliff Floyd, Dwight Gooden, Ed Kranepool, Ernest Hemingway, Felipe Lopez, George Stone, George Theodore, J.C. Martin, Jack Fisher, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Brewer, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Karim Garcia, Ken Boswell, Marathon, Orlando Cepeda, Pete Richert, Phil Hennigan, Randy Johnson, Rusty Staub, Rutgers, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Ubaldo Jimenez, Woodrow Wilson, World War I |
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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