Together once.
Miss Shea Liberty and I go way back, to her New York days.
Together again.
 
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. |
“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 “Hello? Anyone still up?” “I’m not hungry. They’ve got great food at work. I’m still wired, though. I just had to drop by and tell somebody […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Chase Utley, Citi Field, Coming of Age Moments, Gil Flores, Matt Harvey, Pete Rose, Ruben Tejada, Rusty Staub, Shea Stadium, Yoenis Cespedes At last, I get the picture. (Photo by Andrew Richter) Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, the long dormant milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this, the tenth of ten installments, we make one last trip to our spiritual […] Professional football playoff time is upon us. No Giants. No Jets. Limited interest here, though chances are I’ll turn on whatever game is on wherever it’s on. Earlier, I had one on ESPN (which is a first for professional football playoffs). The best part of this particular National Football League postseason is it furnishes me […] Need a scapegoat for your favorite fourth-place team in the whole wide world? Blame Dillon Gee for the pounding the Mets absorbed Thursday night in Milwaukee. Blame Matt Garza for maintaining the deep freeze at such a cold temperature where the New Yorkers’ bats were concerned. Blame gravity for pulling the Mets down to earth […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1984 Mets, Anniversaries, For Real, Keith Hernandez, Shea Stadium They gave us quality-mounted canvas prints of a photo taken at the first game Shea Stadium ever hosted. It’s the reason I snapped up tickets in January, the reason I schlepped my stubborn cold and a hundred or so tissues to Citi Field Saturday night. I wanted the Mets to remind me of Shea. Oh, they […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Craig Kimbrel, Jose Valverde, Justin Upton, Mets Promotions, Opportunitease, Shea Stadium In honor of the 50th anniversary of the opening of Shea Stadium, I thought I’d reprint my post from April 17, 1964, in case you missed it the first time around. Well, you can’t say it isn’t big. Or bright. They said it would be both and it surely is. I’m just not sure it feels like […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Ed Bauta, FAFIF Classics, Jack Fisher, Ron Hunt, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Stargell Is there any better promotion for Mets baseball than the news that the Mets have invited Brandon Allen to Spring Training? Sorry, too easy. I’ll try to maintain a clean slate for Brandon Allen, the Quadruple-A first baseman brought into supplement the Mets’ existing “glut” at that position. Once upon a time it was easy to […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, Anthony Seratelli, Brandon Allen, Joel Carreno, Lou DePaoli, Mets Promotions, Miguel Soclovich, Nolan Ryan, Shea Stadium Today is the 40th anniversary of my first appearance in a major league box score. There I am…look closely. See the part where it says the attendance was 18,776? I’m one of the 18,776. Without me, it’s 18,775. I was just one fan in one seat at Shea Stadium on the afternoon of July 11, 1973. […] 44 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Anniversaries, Duffy Dyer, Jerry Koosman, Shea Stadium |
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