You can identify my black Mike Piazza t-shirt by sight if you see me wearing it; it says Mets 31 on the front, PIAZZA 31 on the back. I can identify it by feel. It was always longer than all the player-number shirts I acquired in the late 1990s, thicker without being confining. I’m a […]
 
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. |
 14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Honda Clubhouse, Jonathan Lucroy, Justin Ruggiano, Mike Piazza, Retired Numbers, T-shirts On October 2, 2005, Mike Piazza entered the home clubhouse at Shea Stadium, removed No. 31 from his person and left the building. No. 31 didn’t go anywhere. But now it will. No. 31 heads for the esplanade above the left field wall at Citi Field, right where it’s belonged (give or take some architectural adjustments) since […] The Braves have announced that they’ll retire No. 10, recently worn by the player forever known in these parts as Larry Jones. The Mets might or might not have a ceremony of their own soon — they’ve been coy about the chances of putting Mike Piazza’s No. 31 on the wall when he’s inducted to […] 37 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Howard Johnson, Jerry Koosman, Keith Hernandez, Mike Piazza, Retired Numbers, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays With a handful of numerical matters in the news and the 13th birthday today of Jon Springer’s pioneering Mets By The Numbers site (whose generally uncredited research provides the data for articles like these), I decided this morning to do one of my periodic number spot checks. It works like this: I count up from 1 […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Baldwin, Bob Geren, Bob Myrick, Carl Barger, Del Unser, Esix Snead, Gary Carter, Jose Reyes, Larry Bowa, Logan Morrison, Mets By The Numbers, Retired Numbers, Rob Johnson, Sergio Ferrer, Uniform Numbers, Willie Mays Gary Carter Stadium in Port St. Lucie…has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Won’t happen, though, because Gary Carter was a catcher and isn’t a corporation. Some company few Mets fans had ever heard of before 2010 or have any idea what exactly it does owns the rights to the name of the Mets’ […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gary Carter, Port St. Lucie, Retired Numbers, Spring Training If you’re taking care of old business every week, then it must be Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Monday marked the 35th anniversary of Willie Mays’ debut as a New York Met. And the 35th anniversary of Willie Mays’ homecoming as a New York baseball immortal. The two events were not coincidental. The Mets weren’t […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Flashback Friday, New York Giants, Retired Numbers, Willie Mays When their season began, they were nobody. When it ended, they were somebody. If it’s the first Friday of the month, then we’re remembering them in this special 1997 Mets edition of Flashback Friday. Ten years, seven Fridays. This is one of them. If these Julio Franco times, when ballplayer age is such an elastic yardstick, could […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Flashback Friday, Jackie Robinson, Retired Numbers, Shea Stadium |
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