 
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’s your “watch baseball all your life and see something you’ve never seen before” moment from Saturday night: the Mets won a game by recording exactly three hits while being hit by pitches twice. Ouch. Ouch. And yay! Necessarily in that order. The Mets’ victory over the Dodgers at Citi Field (itself a rarity, if not really […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  ABBA, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Confidence, Dodgers, Hit By Pitch, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Jacob deGrom, Julo Urias, Justin Wilson, Lee Mazzilli, Pinch-Hitting, Rajai Davis, Sam Haggerty, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Team History, Todd Frazier, Veteran Presence Gladys Knight wasn’t wrong when she concluded, over radios everywhere as 1973 became 1974, that she really had to use her imagination to keep on keepin’ on. Yet her compadres the Pips couldn’t have been more right when they offered her this message of positive reinforcement: You’re too strong not to keep on keepin’ on. If you’ve […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Comebacks, Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Gerry Goffin, Gladys Knight, Injuries, Jerry Blevins, Jose Reyes, Josh Smoker, Juan Lagares, Kyle Schwarber, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Neil Walker, Paul Sewald, Pinch-Hitting, Pitchers Hitting, Rafael Montero, Steven Matz, The Pips Thirty-thousand of us were dying to be hypocrites Tuesday night. We wanted to pull one of those dazzling Asdrubal Cabrera spinoramas in our souls, execute a spectacular turn of sentiment and roar for the stranger at whom we’d been directing our derision loudly or slyly every time we saw him. Some of us preached and […] 49 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Garcia, Asdrubal Cabrera, Eric Campbell, Impatience, Jay Bruce, Julio Teheran, Kevin Plawecki, Patience, Pinch-Hitting, Travis d'Arnaud |
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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