There was a time when Ruben Sierra was one of my favorite baseball players on the planet. Or, at least I sure thought he was, since I’m pretty sure I’d never seen the Texas Rangers play a single game of baseball at that juncture of my life. Sierra’s baseball cards managed to get into basically every single pack of Donruss or Topps or Upper Deck I picked up as a t-ball playing knucklehead at that time, however, so I was pretty certain he was a huge deal.
Come to think of it, I’m still not entirely certain I’ve ever seen the Texas Rangers play baseball.