Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Mets

by Greg W. Prince, Gary Cohen (Foreword by)

Overview

The New York Mets fan is an Amazin’ creature whose species finds its voice at last in Greg Prince’s Faith and Fear In Flushing, the definitive account of what it means to root for and live through the machinations of an endlessly fascinating if often frustrating baseball team. Prince, coauthor of the highly regarded blog of the same name, examines how the life of the franchise mirrors the life of its fans, particularly his own. Unabashedly and unapologetically, Prince stands up for all Mets fans and, by proxy, sports fans everywhere in exploring how we root, why we take it so seriously, and what it all means. What was it like to enter a baseball world about to be ruled by the Mets in 1969? To understand intrinsically that You Gotta Believe? To overcome the trade of an idol and the dissolution of a roster? To hope hard for a comeback and then receive it in thrilling fashion in 1986? To experience the constant ups and downs the Mets would dispense for the next two decades? To put ups with the Yankees right next door? To make the psychic journey from Shea Stadium to Citi Field? To sort the myths from the realities? Greg Prince, as he has done for thousands of loyal Faith and Fear in Flushing readers daily since 2005, puts it all in perspective as only he can.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626367715
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	04/01/2009
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	895 KB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Greg W. Prince is cocreator of the blog Faith and Fear in Flushing, the daily destination for “Mets fans who like to read” since 2005. His memoir of the same name—“an intense personal history of the New York Mets”—was published in 2009 and was followed in 2016 by Amazin’ Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens. He has written about baseball for the New York Times, Huffington Post, Yahoo! Sports, and ESPN.com; served as a consultant to the film The Last Play at Shea; and helped organize the New York Mets 50th Anniversary conference at Hofstra University. He lives in Baldwin, New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jason Fry vii

1 Endings Happy and Otherwise 1

2 Taking It Personally 13

3 Life Begins at Contention 23

4 Talk About Your Childhood Wishes 35

5 Believe It or Else 43

6 Repressed Memory 49

7 The Mediocrity Lap 61

8 I Accept Your Resignation 67

9 A Very Mazzilli Thanksgiving 77

10 Like Magic 87

11 Wired 93

12 Adult Education 101

13 We Did It, That's It 113

14 Sure 127

15 Ascent to Ascendancy 139

16 The Bridge 145

17 Don't Blame Scioscia 151

18 Comeback Player of the Decade 159

19 What Kind of Person? 173

20 Welcome Home 181

21 Virtual Reality and Rico Brogna 187

22 Pride (In The Name of Mets) 193

23 The Fun Police 201

24 199.9 Ways to the 1999 Playoffs 207

25 Mojo Rises, Mojo Falls 233

26 The Nine-Ten Years 245

27 Beauty, Pain, Joy 253

28 To the Track, at the Wall... 263

29 It's Outta Here 269

Afterword: From Greer to Eternity with Gary Cohen 287

Epilogue 300

Acknowledgments 305

Editorial Reviews

If you love a Mets fan, like a Mets fan or just know a Mets fan, buy them this book. They will cherish it.

Baseball Digest