 
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. |
The 2010 Mets are a temporary condition. Mets fandom, however, is a lifetime proposition. Some dispatches from around Metsopotamia, most of them showing us again that blue and orange waters run deep. • Faith and Fear reader Tim Hanley wrote in to let us know he and his home movie of Ron Swoboda’s Game […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1982 Mets, Bill Mazeroski, Bing Crosby, FAFIF Shirt, Gary Sheffield, Howard Megdal, Ken Burns, Matthew Silverman, Moment of Silence, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Tug McGraw, Wayne Twitchell From the Department of the Painfully Obvious, the New York Mets have been eliminated from postseason contention following their 5-2 loss to the Florida Marlins. Time of death: 9:38 PM EDT, but really, they’ve been done since Puerto Rico. Record before San Juan: 43-32. Record from San Juan on: 31-45. Autumnal equinox is tomorrow night. Very […] Bobby Thomson, a true New York sports icon and author of the most famous home run in baseball history, passed away last night. He was 86. As far as I can tell, nobody ever said a bad word about the man. What follows is something I wrote a few years ago about an afternoon I spent […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Thomson, Moment of Silence, New York Giants One of the great New York sports columnists, Vic Ziegel, has passed away at age 72 from lung cancer. You can and should read about his life and career here. He covered the early Mets as a beat writer with the Post and once told me there was no greater group of guys he came […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Polo Grounds, Vic Ziegel, Writing First, to the McCann of the Hour… I didn’t have a favorite Brave before, but I do now. Thank you Brian McCann for ending a streak of twelve consecutive negative All-Star decisions that seemed destined to reach thirteen on habit if not merit. And you’re welcome, Brian McCann, for our firing you up properly at Citi Field […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, All-Star Game, Bobby Bonilla, Brian McCann, Buddhism, Chris Young, Fred Wilpon, George Steinbrenner, Jeff Wilpon, Joan Payson, Lorinda de Roulet, M. Donald Grant, Matt Thornton, Media, Moment of Silence, Nelson Doubleday, Ownership, Rationalization, Richie Hebner, Ricky Bottalico, Roberto Alomar, Ty Wigginton, Vince Coleman, Wellington Mara, Winning It’s a hot August afternoon in 1993. There’s two guys approaching their mechanic’s shop, each of them, on foot, ready to pick up his car. One is 30. One is 82. The one who is 30 thinks the one who is 82 is going to be a slow poke if he gets to the counter […] NPR’s Mike Pesca brought me into the studio to discuss my post about my neighbor and his brother’s baseball cards, and did a nice job crafting it into a story for “All Things Considered.” Have a listen here, and feel free to make fun of my (subconscious) attempt at the NPR voice. I’d like to be not such a hardass toward my team. I’d like to not be so realistic about the tendencies of its individual components. I’d like to like the players I like without not being able to stand them when their performances unequivocally merit disdain. I’d have liked to have been a more steadfast supporter […] Baseball is a first pitch being thrown at 12:35 in the afternoon, and a schlubby fan attempting to follow it while working. A decision to listen on the radio because things are going well for his team while avoiding the TV. That’s baseball. And so is a kid from Defiance, Ohio, pitching for the first […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Ernie Harwell, Moment of Silence Update: Here’s this story revisited for NPR. Near the end of winter my neighbor’s younger brother died unexpectedly. Emily and I are friendly with our neighbor, and offered him our condolences. But we don’t really know each other, for all the usual city reasons that you regret on one level but mostly look past while you’re […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bill Dillman, Moment of Silence, Team History, The Holy Books |
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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