I'm from Milwaukee. In the mid to late '70's the Milwaukee Brewers had a rightfielder named Sixto Lezcano. I was about 5 or 6 at the time. My older brother convinced me that Sixto had 6 toes, thus his first name.

Anon

When I was 4 I ran in my first race in honour of the Queen at our local silver jubilee party,all was going well I was in front until I got to the tape and stopped then everyone ran past me through the tape and I was last they gave me a threepnee bit (dull old money when your 4)whilst the winner got 15p!Nobody told me you had to run through the bloody string!

loser

i asked my father what a turkey shoot was. he told me they threw them up in the air and you shoot the down. i belived that.

margie

I was about 10, my nextdoor neighbours big brother (15) was making names up for a football team on the playstation.
He named one of them 'Hugh Jass' and I thought 'Hugh Jass' was a real football player.
It was only when I asked my dad a few days later "Which team does Hugh Jass play for dad?" That I realised he had meant it to sound like HUGE ASS!
I always laugh at that,
Thankyou so very much joe!!

Anon

For baseball fans:

I used to think there was a ballplayer named Nicky Sasky. It was later that I learned his actual name was Nick Esasky.

A short time later I heard about a player with a similar name. But this time I figured I had it right because if there was a Nick Esasky it stood to reason that there would also be a Mack Esasser, right? Wrong. Macky Sasser.

Jayburd

I used to belive in basketball that held ball was hellball

Anon

that Sam Maguire was a player on the team! Not a cup!

Anon

There was a nuclear power plant near my grandparent's farm. I though it was a really tall baseball stadium.

Me

I use to think golf courses were called "golf courts." My dad went on jury duty once and my mom told me he was going to court. I thought that meant he was staying out of work to go play golf.

Anon

You know how when you were at school sometimes the "1st Team" of whatever sport would play against the Coaches and former pupils etc etc? (i.e. The current best team verus the best previously)

As a child and not the biggest football (soccer) fan I used to think that Newcastle were a team of referees (and of course the referees had to be the best in order to judge the game in the first place!). This was mainly due to their black and white kit of course.

I still don't know anything about football.......

Viscont Che Cubin

As a child, I would see football games on TV and wonder how the players got such large shoulders. They seemed like Hulks to me. It was not until I saw a player remove his jersey, a few years later, that I discovered the truth. Shoulder pads!!! Whew!!!

Mike

When I was about 5, my brother was watching a football(American) game with the Chicago Bears playing someone, but i forget who. Whoever they were, my brother was rooting for them and not the Bears so when he said "Oh no! A Bear made a touchdown" I got this image in my head of an actual bear wandering the football field, making a touchdown, and that this is somehow upsetting to my brother. I still laugh when I think of this image.

Emily

When I was little I guess 3 or 4 the Housont Oilers fired Bum Phillips as their coach. So my mom came to me and said the Oilers fired Bum Phillips and I started bawling. It took her a while to figure out that in my mind I thought they had shot him. As in Ready, Aim ,Fire.

Scot

When the baseball announcer would mention Randy Johnson's nickname, The Big Unit, for years I thought they were calling him "The Big Eunuch." I could not imagine why they would call him that unless it was because he was so big!

Jim

Until i was 14 i thought that volleyball was pronounced volleyvall...that is until my mom corrected me...i dunno it sounded right to me...even now i still say volley vall on occasion

Anon

Only read if you are Australian:

I used to think until I was 12 that Fremantle footy team were based in Victoria. Duh.

David

Whenever I watched a football game, and they interviewed the coach, I always thought it was weird that he was "smoking" because I lived in a warm place, so I didn't know it was cold and you could see your breath.

Anon

When my mom took me to a women's basketball game I wanted to bring my basketball because I thought I was going to play the game.

Beth

When I was a kid, my older sister told me about a friend of hers that was taking fencing. I asked "like, wooden or chain link?"

Tim

I use to believe that the players on professional sports teams actually were born and raised in the towns whose team's they played for. I also believed the teams were owned by the towns.

Anon