On July 11, 2023, the National League defeated the American League in an All-Star Game for the first time since 2012, which added a flourish to the 50th Anniversary celebration of this correspondent’s first game at Shea Stadium, which occurred on July 11, 1973. To commemorate the seminal occasion, I dug into the Faith and […]
 
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. |
 17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, Bud Harrelson, Camp Day, FAFIF Classics, Felix Millan, First Impressions, Jerry Koosman, Jim Fregosi, Jim McAndrew, Lee May, Leo Durocher, M. Donald Grant, Marvin the Counselor, Mets Yearbook, Rich Chiles, Shea Stadium, Tommie Agee, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays On August 8, 1963, the day after Jim Hickman hit for the first cycle in Mets history, the Mets won again, 3-2, with first baseman Duke Carmel (one of two Dukes to play for the Mets that day at the Polo Grounds) hitting the deciding home run in the eighth inning. Between Carmel’s big blow […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aftermath, Alex Ochoa, Cycles, Eduardo Escobar, Eric Valent, Jim Hickman, John Olerud, Jose Reyes, Keith Hernandez, Kevin McReynolds, Mike Phillips, Pete Alonso, Scott Hairston, Starling Marte, Team History, Tommie Agee Did ya see how the bottom of the eighth between the Mets and Marlins ended on Saturday? Dom Smith made a hellacious dive with two out to corral a grounder from Miguel Rojas, rolled over on his rear end and rid himself of the ball before retrieving his bearings, guiding it to Miguel Castro at […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dan Seals, Defense, Dom Smith, Joey Lucchesi, John Ford Coley, Johneshwy Fargas, Sean Reid-Foley, Tommie Agee Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. The biggest moment in Mets history is also one of the quietest. You’ve seen it: With two outs in the ninth of Game 5 of the 1969 World Series, Davey Johnson hits a fly […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1968 Mets, 1969 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Cleon Jones, Gil Hodges, M. Donald Grant, Tommie Aaron, Tommie Agee, Yogi Berra Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. It was a glorious time… Like the Mets are doing in 2020, the Mets fans of 1970 spent their summer at day camp. Well, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1970 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Goodfellas, Tommie Agee This starts as a story of incrementalism in action, or the inaction of incrementalism, and how what had been the case practically forever was suddenly no longer the case at all. To appreciate how spectacular the eventual great leap forward in question was, we shall travel back, as we so often have in 2019, to […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Home Runs, Most Valuable Met, Pete Alonso, Rookie History, Rookie of the Year, Team History, Tommie Agee “I’m not really throwing the ball where I want to,” Jacob deGrom explained to reporters Sunday night. He probably meant in relation to where Brave batters could hit it. I’d add I’d have preferred Jake not throwing the ball on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, which no matter how it’s […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ESPN, Hank Aaron, Jacob deGrom, Paul Sewald, Radio, Sam Jethroe, Sunday Night Baseball, Tommie Agee, Unnatural Environs Break up the Mets! They’re 2-2 against the Yankees! Actually that already appears to be happening: the Mets left Robert Gsellman in to throw a ton of pitches against the Yankees Friday night while Jeurys Familia sat in the bullpen in a sweatshirt, got hugs from teammates and was spoken of evasively in postgame interviews. He’s […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1966 Mets, Amed Rosario, Baseball Cards, Billy Murphy, Broadcasters, Gil Hodges, Jeurys Familia, Joe Nolan, Lost Mets, Mets Songs, Noah Syndergaard, Ralph Kiner, Rheingold, Robert Gsellman, Rube Walker, The Holy Books, Tommie Agee, Yankees In a few minutes, I shall require a diversion. Where there is deGrom, there is delight. Stadiums can sit all but empty, standings can tease with cruelty, seasons can run out of sand as captains cede reluctantly to the inevitable, but when you have a young starting pitcher who doesn’t give up […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Attendance, David Wright, Jacob deGrom, Rich Chiles, Tommie Agee The Mets commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1964 World’s Fair at Citi Field Tuesday night. It involved a little too much Branden and Alexa, but the sentiment was solid and the theme was well executed: period songs, vintage video, even special at-bat graphics evoking the enormous futuristic attraction that kept Shea Stadium company in […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1968 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Hitting, Team History, Tommie Agee, World's Fair |
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