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.
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- My 18 year old brother thought the former vice president was named Al Gorbachov.— Jeff
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- When my dad was little his older siblings convinced him that there were flocks of flying turtles.— Anonymous
- My older sister had me convinced that noodles grew on trees, but that rice was man-made...— Trusting little brother
- My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel
- I used to believe that one day, my younger brother would be older than me and then he'd pick on me!— Andrew