Author: Greg Prince
Title: Faith and Fear in Flushing
Publication Info: Skyhorse Publishing (2009)
ISBN: 1602396817
Summary/Review:
Greg Prince, one of the co-authors of the Mets blog Faith and Fear in Flushing – the most intelligent and literate Mets blog there is – writes about his 40 years as the guy everyone knows as the [...]
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18 Aug
Book Review: Faith and Fear in Flushing by Greg Prince
27 May
Fenway Park
On Sunday I attended my second Mets game of the month, this time a road game here at home in Boston. It feels a bit odd to don my blue & orange hat for a trip to Fenway since I will root for the Red Sox against any other opponent. Yet I’ve done it many [...]
26 May
Book Review: Becoming Manny by Jean Rhodes and Shawn Boburg
When Manny Ramirez played in Boston, I enjoyed watching him play and always thought he got a raw deal from the Red Sox fans & media who accused him of being selfish, lazy, and disruptive (among other things I can’t print here). I always got the sense that Manny was shy and just wanted to [...]
14 May
Citi Field
My friend Mike and I have a tradition each year of visiting New York City to see a ballgame between the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves. Mike grew up in Alaska watching the Braves on TBS in the Dale Murphy era when the team was pitiful. I of course spent my first 17 [...]
28 Apr
Book Review: The Dark Side of the Diamond by Roger I. Abrams
The Dark Side of the Diamond (2007) by Roger I. Abrams is the antidote for anyone who looks at the state of our National Pastime and yearns for “the good old days” when baseball and virtue went hand-in-hand. As Abrams dutifully enumerates, professional baseball in the “bad old days” offers plenty of examples of gambling, [...]
28 Apr
Book Review: Playing Hard Ball by E.T. Smith
Fifteen years ago I attended a portion of a cricket cup match in Bermuda and have had a curiosity about the game ever since. Now I’ve discovered a book by a cricketer who loves baseball, a game I understand much better. Playing Hard Ball: County Cricket and Big League Baseball (2003) by professional cricketer [...]
7 Apr
Time Begins … and I almost missed it
One of the best observed … but not official … national holidays occurred this week, and I almost neglected to write about it. I refer of course to my annual post waxing rhapsodic about Opening Day in Major League Baseball. It’s a day of hope and possibility, and since my two favorite teams won yesterday [...]
21 Mar
Mission: Boston
With the first day of spring upon us and Boston officially thawing out, it’s time to get out and do something! There are many things to do and sites to see right near home that I always find a way to procrastinate, some for several years running now. Here are ten things to do [...]
2 Feb
Book Review: Connecticut Baseball by Don Harrison
Connecticut Baseball: The Best of the Nutmeg State (2008) by Don Harrison collects tidbits of Connecticut’s professional baseball history in one slim volume. One can chuckle at the slenderness of the book – especially when imagining the tomes that states like California and Pennsylvania would have for the same topic – but Harrison makes a [...]
29 Sep
Shea Stadium: A Personal History
Posted by Liam in Ideas, Opinion & Commentary. Tagged: Baseball, History, Mets, New York, Shea Stadium. 2 Comments
Beloved Mets mascot Mr. Met signs autographs during a 1997 game at Shea Stadium.
Yesterday, the Mets lost to the Marlins and brought an end to their 2008 season as well as the William A. Shea Municipal Stadium. The Mets will begin the 2009 season in a retro-ballpark modeled on Ebbets Field, but Shea Stadium will [...]
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