 
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. |
Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin’ or not, here it comes. They checked […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, Bar Mitzvah, Citi Field, Flashback Friday, Howie Rose, Nolan Ryan, Radio, Tom Seaver Happy 64th to the greatest vintner in Mets history. He’s not shy about his ranking. One day late, but Happy 44th to our former chief surgeon. Mid-November is a very good week for pitchers, too, no? 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dwight Gooden, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday You’ll hear the word perfect tossed around quite a bit today. Nineteen football wins in nineteen football games, should the nineteenth of them come to pass, is admittedly awesome. Nevertheless, our idea of absolute perfection for a Super Bowl Sunday is transcribing the call of Hall of Fame broadcaster Lindsey Nelson for one half of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Cubs, Lindsey Nelson, Radio, Salute to Baseball, Tom Seaver Sesame Street came along a little too late to be of any use to me. It debuted while I was in first grade, when I already knew how to count, so my reaction to it was quit talking down to me, damn it (I also already knew how to curse). But because it was billed […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Jimmy Qualls, Mets Pop Culture, No-Hitters, Sesame Street, Tom Seaver One sinker sinks like it was supposed to and Jimmy Qualls isn’t even a trivia answer. And the magician on the first Sesame Street finds another paper to tear to shreds. This weekend, in honor of November 17 being Tom Seaver’s 63rd birthday, we offer you the following eleven pitchers… Kevin Brown (not to be confused with the Kevin Brown who hit the wall for the Yankees in 2004 or the Kevin Brown who pitched two innings for the Mets in 1990), Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez, Wes […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1984 Mets, Compensation Pool, Disappointment, Frank Cashen, Ron Gardenhire, Team History, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday There was about a five-second window when all was right with the New York Mets, when Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden wore Met uniforms together. This was June 6, 1987, the day after Gooden returned from drug rehab to beat the Pirates and the day Seaver began his final attempt at pitching after injury and […] After his wildly wonderful 1983 homecoming, it was a kick in the gut (and probably lower) to watch Tom Seaver say goodbye a second time after a rightfully downcast Frank Cashen left him unprotected in the monstrosity known as the free agent compensation pool in January of ’84. The Chicago White Sox chose Tom Terrific to […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | 1984 Mets, Dennis Lamp, Frank Cashen, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday It was so great to have Tom Seaver come home again on April 5, 1983, almost six seasons beyond the wretched trade that turned him into an ex-Met. If you still haven’t quite gotten all the bubble gum dust off your fingers, then it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. I stopped collecting baseball cards a long time ago. But I never stopped accumulating them. That’s what I have, an accumulation. They have gathered. They have piled up. They have snaked their way […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Baseball Cards, Flashback Friday, Tom Seaver |
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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