 
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. |
Break up the Mets! They’re 2-2 against the Yankees! Actually that already appears to be happening: the Mets left Robert Gsellman in to throw a ton of pitches against the Yankees Friday night while Jeurys Familia sat in the bullpen in a sweatshirt, got hugs from teammates and was spoken of evasively in postgame interviews. He’s […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1966 Mets, Amed Rosario, Baseball Cards, Billy Murphy, Broadcasters, Gil Hodges, Jeurys Familia, Joe Nolan, Lost Mets, Mets Songs, Noah Syndergaard, Ralph Kiner, Rheingold, Robert Gsellman, Rube Walker, The Holy Books, Tommie Agee, Yankees I’ve spent a good chunk of the winter sulking about Jeurys Familia quick-pitching or Yoenis Cespedes playing base-soccer or Daniel Murphy bringing the glove up or Cespedes charging off first on a soft liner or Terry Collins being too sentimental or Lucas Duda being unable to make a simple throw home or getting to the big stage […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bill Graham, Charlie Neal, Dennis Musgraves, Dick Rusteck, Jerry Grote, Jerry Hinsley, Joe Hicks, Lost Mets, Minor Leagues, Ray Daviault, Rod Kanehl, Sammy Drake, Shaun Fitzmaurice, Ted Schreiber, The Holy Books, Tom Seaver, Willard Hunter A week and a half ago I finished the manuscript for the third book in my Jupiter Pirates series, capping a fairly exhausting run of writing and travel that began last August. (Which is one reason, besides Wilpon-related apathy, that Greg — APPLAUSE!!! — has been a full-time presence at the helm this offseason.) While laboring, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Lost Mets, Salty Parker, The Holy Books, Wes Westrum Longtime readers of this blog know of my quixotic pursuit of a decent picture of Al Schmelz, former Alaska Goldpanner and briefly a New York Met, along with many other momentary ballplayers in the bizarre 1967 campaign. There were 54 1967 Mets — 35 making their team debuts — and those 54 players managed 61 wins, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, Al Schmelz, Alaska Goldpanners, Baseball Cards, Lost Mets, The Holy Books Johnny Estrada has a 2008 New York Mets baseball card. 2008 Topps Heritage #378, to be specific — a set made in the fashion of the 1959 Topps cards, down to the goofy personal info. (Johnny has a juco degree in recreation, which apes old-style Topps cards perfectly in that it’s simultaneously ridiculous and made to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Lost Mets, Phantom Mets, Winter Mets 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 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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