 
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. |
A walker can examine our past and present up close and come to some hazy conclusion over where we might be heading, not unlike Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Dickens and so many others did when wandering similar byways during another uneasy patch of our history. If you took every 90 feet worth of […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, 2022 Mets, A's, Francisco Lindor, Interleague Play, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Neil King Jr., Oakland Coliseum, Old Friends, Possums, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Walks From the deep well of numerical sustenance baseball is wont to give us on any given day, Thursday afternoon it gave us, among other digital delights, 7 1-hit innings from Taijuan Walker; 1 base hit from Francisco Lindor after 26 hitless at-bats; 11 walks issued to would-be Met batters from Cardinal pitchers (including 4 consecutive […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, An Appreciation, Francisco Lindor, Home Runs, Milestones, Negro Leagues, Ralph Kiner, Reverence, Taijuan Walker, Walks, Willie Mays As long as the Mets win, they can more or less do as they please and we’ll perform the necessary mental gymnastics to declare it good. But that said, would it kill them to play a non-insane game one of these nights? After a day and a night of high-scoring moral victories that we had to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Vasquez, Jake Odorizzi, Noah Syndergaard, Trevor Hildenberger, Twins, Walks Sunday was sunny and warm, one of those days where spring tells you that despite recent events, the world will soon be habitable on a more or less regular basis. Emily and I had worked through all manner of errands and items on our separate to-do lists, so we decided that … we could go to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, Citi Field, Food, Lack of Food, Luis Avilan, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Tim Peterson, Walks, Zack Wheeler Somebody wake the Rockies. The World Series has started. Well, that wasn’t pretty, National League fans. It didn’t feel like a World Series. It felt like a Super Bowl blowout from the era of Cowboys-Bills and 49ers-Chargers. In football, it’s just one game. In baseball, you have to keep reminding yourself it’s just one game. (Hey, […] |
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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