I thought all baseball umpires were named "Al." It seemed unfair that, while the players had their last names on their jerseys, the umpires had to have their first names on their hats.
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- I thought for some reason that chewing tobacco was REQUIRED for Major League Baseball players.— Jeff
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- At the age of around five, I realized that my mum's and dad's names were not mum and dad!— yelloworpurple
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae