I used to look at baseball games in summer in the States, and it were years before I understood that the players did NOT bat in order of who was the best on the team down to the worst -- I assumed the best fellow led off cos my favourite player did, of course!
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
- My mom used to believe that the San Francisco Giants baseball team were actual giants.Anon
- i used to think that ozzy osbourne was a hockey player, and i thought michael jackson was a basketball player.— anastacia beeverhousen
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon
- the summer that I turned 11 I waited out side on the step all summer for my hogwarts letter... ;D — Ginny weasley... not really