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A franchise and fan base in perpetual search of validation finally had its ticket punched as 2016 dawned. Mike Piazza, who held records in one hand and a city's rapt attention in the other, gained election to the Hall of Fame. Within weeks of this long-awaited announcement, the ballclub with whom he chose to cast his eternal lot, the New York Mets, made a date to retire his number.In Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star, Greg W. Prince - cocreator of Faith and Fear in Flushing, "the blog for Mets fans who like to read," and author of Amazin' Again, the story of the 2015 National League champions - explores the parallel paths Piazza and the Mets set out on in the early 1990s and how their individual journeys merged into a mutual quest for transcendence.