I was born in 1987, so you might think that my first year as a Phillies fan would have come when I was six years old, and Joe Carter’s home run shattered my very first World Series dream, as well as any chance of me going to kindergarten the next day. If you thought that, you would be wrong.
For me, it was not which Pokemon card I was going to get, but whether or not I would get the only card missing from my 1992 collection: Ruben Amaro Jr.