 
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. |
“If I had to sum up in one word what this campaign is all about, that word would be ‘faith’.” So the ones who pitch and the ones who catch what they pitch have reported to where they pitch and catch when it’s too cold to catch […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Mets, Cynicsm, Cynnocence, Innocence, Spring Training At the risk of being a killjoy, I’m already sick of Spring Training coverage. The players show up way too soon and their every move is monitored far too closely. We used to get by on a feature, some notes and a picture of somebody swinging in the cage. On Sunday we’d get a column […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Annual Rituals, Curmudgeonly Preference for the Way Things Used to Be, Media, Spring Training The infrastructure of a baseball season encompasses a surfeit of components that don’t show up in the box score, including intramural dustups in March that dissolve into the murkiest of memories by May. They are as much part of the National Pastime landscape as the crack of the bat, the flight of the ball, the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Martino, Eric Campbell, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Injuries, Ira Berkow, Matt Harvey, Media Criticism, Spring Training Leo Durocher would have relished this weekend in Las Vegas. The Cactus League Cubs — the team he managed to its only oasis of success in a nearly 40-year schlep through a desert of futility, and the Grapefruit Circuit Mets — the team that inevitably turned 1969 into a Near North Side mirage, will square […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Aspirations, Fred Wilpon, Hope, Leo Durocher, Sandy Alderson, Spring Training, The Sopranos I have a modest proposal: dismantle the spring-training media-entertainment industry. No, really. Because it’s making us all crazy. Spring training exists for two reasons: 1) Pitchers need time to strengthen their arms to do a better job at something profoundly unnatural that will eventually hurt them, possibly in a catastrophic, career-ending way. 2) Towns in Florida and Arizona like […] Like the swallows that return to Capistrano every March, Mets fans dependably make the pilgrimage to Port St. Lucie every spring. It’s not so much what they see that spurs them onto southbound flights but what they feel. And what Ryder Chasin felt when he was treated to a longer than expected weekend in the […] Mike Piazza is a special instructor in Mets camp. He is among the most special of all Mets, so the title fits. Nice of him to swing by St. Lucie, just as it was good thinking on Jeff Wilpon’s part to invite him. (We will now take the keyboard on which I’m typing out of play […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Francisco Estrada, Mets Catchers, Mike Piazza, Spring Training Who cares how the Mets look after two exhibition games? I’m just happy to hear their names again, most of which meet the ear in a pleasingly lyrical fashion. These guys might not quite match up with Dave Frishberg’s legendary lineup, but the mellifluous Mets of 2014 sound pretty formidable to me. Taylor Teagarden. 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dave Frishberg, Names, Spring Training, Van Lingle Mungo Today was crowded. Joshua had no school because of parent-teacher conferences. Our first order of business was to get him a new passport, which for the under-16 set means showing up in person, photocopying lots of stuff, and getting a notary to OK the absent parent’s permission. Oh, and waiting in line at the post office. Since […] Need a cure for the common winter? It’s coming 1:10 PM Friday. Just because what the Mets do against the Nationals in their exhibition opener won’t count doesn’t mean it won’t be good for what ails us. It’s baseball, featuring players we’ve heard of, beamed to our screens by SNY and through our speakers by WOR. […] |
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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