I didn’t like baseball until I was ten years old, and it was from then on that I REALLY liked baseball. I asked my dad to play Little League and when no one picked me in tryouts he started his own team full of leftover players. We won exactly one game, dropping fifteen other contests - the Detroit Lions of the league if you will - but it was one of my most fun summers ever. Because our team was not super talented, and my dad was the coach, I got to play lots of key positions.
We didn’t have a catcher, so my dad told me to get the gear on, I was going to catch.