 
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. |
Here are two scenes from two Florida locales at the outset of Spring Training. 1) Lucas Duda is asked about the throw that got away and, with it, the World Series. He replies: “That’s a throw I can make nine out of ten times, and that happened to be the one I didn’t […] I’ve watched it […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Eric Hosmer, Jon Niese, Lucas Duda, Moment of Silence, Spring Training, Tony Phillips “Monte Irvin died,” I told my wife last week. I have a t-shirt that features a likeness of Monte Irvin’s 1954 baseball card, along with a bullet-point bio, his actual autograph and the thanks of the New York Baseball Giants Nostalgia Society for giving his time to the group. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Football, Moment of Silence, Monte Irvin, New York Giants, Old Timers Day, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium The lamentably late Natalie Cole told us in good old 1975 what This Will Be, but she wasn’t necessarily* in the forecasting business. It’s a blank slate out there. The new year couldn’t be much newer or less knowable. If you need precedent (despite precedent’s limited efficacy), just look back to 365 days ago. We […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Baseball Equinox, Moment of Silence, Natalie Cole The Mets’ slump has become a full-fledged rut, one of those stretches where a team seems suddenly incapable of doing any of the things it just recently did so well. Met hitters are expanding the strike zone and flailing their way through frantic at-bats, Met fielders are being alternately impetuous and butter-fingered, Met starters are faltering and Met relievers are […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Fans, Moment of Silence, Panic City, Pennant Race, Yogi Berra The first-place Mets, you might say, were lucky Tuesday night. True, they lost for the fifth time in seven games — 6-2 to the Braves — but they won a valuable square foot of real estate in their march toward the National League East title when the Nationals lost to the Orioles. Their magic number […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 1973 Mets, Mets Managers, Moment of Silence, Yogi Berra It was the “Mambo No. 5” game. That’s one of the two ways I differentiate it from all the other games I’ve attended. In the seventh-inning stretch, they played “Mambo No. 5,” the very contemporary and very kitschy song Lou Bega was making famous late in the summer of 1999. I don’t know why they […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, Darryl Hamilton, Lou Bega, Moment of Silence “In ‘reel’ life,” Jeff Merron noted in an ESPN critique of Bull Durham’s depiction of how baseball actually works, “[Nuke] LaLoosh is promoted from A ball to the majors in the span of a few months.” But in reality, “It’s almost unheard of — especially for a pitcher who struggled part of the season in […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeel Morris, Bull Durham, Moment of Silence, Nelson Doubleday If you played for the Worst Teams Money Could Buy, plural, then chances are you ended your evenings on the short end of a lot of baseball scores. By that standard, the universe might owe Jeff McKnight a handful of high-fives. Few Mets played as many games as McKnight did and lost a larger percentage of […] This here’s a story about Charlie Williams, a young pitcher who seemed destined for if not big, then definitely specific things. Consider what can be gleaned about C.W. from his C.V. • Born in Flushing fourteen years before ground was broken on the stadium that would make that Queens village world-famous. • Matriculated at Great Neck South […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, Charlie Williams, Moment of Silence, Willie Mays Ernie Banks on a 1969 baseball card shot at Shea Stadium. No way it wasn’t a beautiful day. We know what Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub, had to say about doubleheaders. Yet I thought it might be fitting to remember there was more to the man who passed away Friday eight days shy of his […] |
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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