Why do people become fans of a certain team. For myself, at first glance, it was totally due to location. I grew up in Los Angeles and thus became a fan of the Dodgers, Lakers and Rams. But my path to being a Dodger fan wasn’t something that happened right away.
I do believe the first time I learned anything about baseball, it was from a book. It could have been a biography of the first five players inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Or a baseball children’s book by Matt Christopher that I checked out of my local library.