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Originally Posted by quinnsryche
Just wondering how you ended up being a baseball fan?
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I'm not a baseball fan.
My sport is football ("soccer" in US terms) and I support Crusaders, a small team from Belfast and, in national terms, the Northern Ireland national team - which is a bit of a David versus Goliath task as Northern Ireland has one of the smallest populations on the earth.
However, I have an admiration for baseball history which started initially in the 1990s through a liking of vintage World Series program covers (here in the UK, programmes are the main collectible - bit like cards in US terms). It grew into an admiration for the 1920s Yankees and, day-by-day, I become more interested in the 1920s Yankees .... and some of the later Yankees players such as Di Maggio, Mantle, Martin etc but it's mainly the Yankees of Ruth, Gehrig and Lazzeri.
So I don't love baseball per se ..... but I love early 20th century NY Yankees and all the good and bad that they represent. I can name many stats / figures / issues of history from the Yankees of the 1920s but could barely name a thing or player of the modern day NY Yankees and I'm happy with that.
That said, I still love NYC and watch the Yankees when I can (next game versus Toronto in May).
ps - I always thought I was just a Yankees observer and not a fan as I'd never disliked the Red Sox - in fact, I always used to like picking up old Red Sox programs. Then, my long-term partner (and fiancee) dumped me for a Red Sox fan ..... the rest is history
