When I was in 6th grade, I believed that in baseball, if you hit a home run, you'd get 7 points instead of 1, because running all the bases counted more than just running from 3rd to home. I envisioned as similar to a touchdown, which I also believed at the time was 7, not 6 points.
A childhood belief about sport

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that every time I went to church, I got "points" to go to heaven. — Poxy
- I used to believe thato to adopt a child you had to collect points from supermarket products...— Linda
- I used to think running for president involved actually running somewhere.— Artimage
- Well I once believed that when someone was home alone, they'd walk around naked..Anon
- I believed that everytime I kissed my David Cassidy poster he'd feel it back home in Hollywood.— Marie M
- I used to believe that you could get cancer from looking in the microwave while it was running.— Kayla