 
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. |
When I learned Friday of Ron Hunt’s passing at age 85, I didn’t think immediately of his status as the first Met All-Star Game starter or his major league record for most times hit by a pitch in a single season. I thought of Ron Hunt calling me. Ron Hunt called me because I wrote a […] Every now and then, the Mets fall apart. Take Sean Manaea. Thursday afternoon under cloudy skies against the visiting Royals, he was totally blitzed at the start by Lane Thomas’s leadoff home run. Did we get a little terrified? At the very least, everything looked dim to us, but then our Comeback Lefty of the […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Ewing, Bonnie Tyler, Jared Young, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Moment of Silence, Sean Manaea, Tyrone Taylor Wednesday started, more or less, with Michael Conforto robbing A.J. Ewing of a potential extra-base hit. Conforto was playing right field for the Cubs eleven years after he began playing left field for the Mets. He was the hope of outfield future in the summer of 2015, a first-round draft pick whose elevation to Citi […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 27th Man, A.J. Ewing, Absurd Infield Defense, Bo Bichette, Cole Mathis, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, David Clayton-Thomas, David Peterson, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Jonathan Pintaro, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Michael Conforto, Moment of Silence, Nolan McLean, Norwegians, Soap Opera Names, Soccer, Sweeps, The Dean, Victor Newman Like Bob Seger so many summers ago, Bo Bichette woke last night to the sound of thunder. BOOM! before the game. Then he woke the rest of us up. BOOM! in the first inning. BOOM! like crazy in the second. Bo went BOOM! twice in a game that waited for a wicked storm to pass […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Bob Seger, Braves, Gene Shalit, Grand Central Madison, Grand Slams, Juan Soto, Lightning, LIRR, Masks, Mets Museum’s Inadequacies, Moment of Silence, Nolan McLean, Rain, Thunder Did I hear him correctly? Did I hear Carson Benge, in the wake of his smashing major league debut at Citi Field, tell a friendly interlocutor that ”I want to keep playing here forever”? Don’t toy with us, kid. Because if you’re serious, we’re in the smitten state of mind to take you up on […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Bo Bichette, Carson Benge, Dash Crofts, Debuts, Forever, Francisco Alvarez, Freddy Peralta, Home Opener, Jorge Polanco, Luis Garcia, Luis Robert Jr., Marcus Semien, Mets Home Opener, Moment of Silence, Oneil Cruz, Opening Day, Paul Skenes, Promise, Tobias Myers It’s the time of the year meant for looking ahead. To Carson Benge not being Don Bosch. To Vidal Bruján and Mike Tauchman potentially making themselves more useful than Bill Pecota. To Nolan McLean overcoming vertigo-like symptoms so he can pitch in the WBC, then not getting hurt in the WBC (which goes for all […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, Anticipation, Ballpark Revenue, Carlos Beltran, Carly Simon, Charles Payson, Currently Unsigned, Doug Flynn, Five Dollar Tuesdays, Franchise Leaderboard, Frank Cashen, Frank Taveras, Future, Hit By Pitch, J.D. Martinez, Jack Lang, Jackie Robinson, Jeff Kent, Jesse Winker, Joe Adcock, Joe Morgan, Joe Torre, Juan Lagares, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Lorinda de Roulet, March, Max Scherzer, Michael Conforto, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Old Friends, Perceptions, Pickleball, Retirement, Rhys Hoskins, Ruben Gomez, Shea Stadium, Spring Training, Starling Marte, Team History, Tom Boswell, Travis d'Arnaud, Vertigo-Like Symptoms, Wilmer Flores, Winter Leagues, World Baseball Classic, Zack Wheeler In the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait, veteran L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton, played by Warren Beatty, is in the prime of his life — “at my age, in any other business, I’d be young” — when he rides his way into an apparently fatal bicycle accident. An escort from above assigned to monitor such […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1976 Mets, 2022 Mets, Bart Shirley, Bill Hepler, George Altman, Heaven Can Wait, Larry Burright, Mickey Lolich, Moment of Silence, Pinch-Running, Randy Jones, Rocky, Rusty Staub, Sandy Alomar Sr., Shea Stadium, Terrance Gore, Tigers, Tim Harkness, Wayne’s World What a spectacular top of the first inning in Philadelphia Thursday night! And what a moving eight innings of respectful silence in the top halves of each frame that followed. That was pretty much that where the current Mets were concerned in their sixth consecutive loss. Thus, let us turn our attention to Mets of yore. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1969 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, Art Shamsky, Benny Agbayani, Ed Kranepool, Harrison Bader, Ike Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jim Bethke, Jim Marshall, Mets Alumni, Moment of Silence, Todd Zeile One of the benefits of paying very close attention to one specific entity for a very long time is you pick up on trends that might be apparent to you and only you. One of the benefits of having a platform like this is the opportunity to remark upon those trends. Here’s my picked-up-on trend of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, ABC Network Promotional Jingles, Davey Johnson, Edwin Diaz, Generation MST3K, Great American Ball Park, Jeurys Familia, Moment of Silence, September, Shoes, Trends You might grab a nap. You might grab a shower. You might grab one of your top prospects and send him to the mound in front of the home folks to make his major league debut and watch him succeed. There are plenty of ways to feel refreshed. The Nolan McLean version proved most effective Saturday. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Denehy, Confidence, Dick Rusteck, First Starts, First Wins, Mennen Skin Bracer, Moment of Silence, Nolan McLean, Steven Matz, Team History |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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