First and foremost, I’m a baseball fan. It’s reasonable for me to say that I’ve been a baseball fan longer than most of you have been alive. Yes, I remember the ’79 Pirates. Growing up in New Jersey as a Yankees fan (don’t hold that against me), I rooted for them first, then any team playing any other AL East team. That might sound odd considering that the Pirates and Yankees had some legendary World Series clashes back in the day, but it worked for me. An uncle who did business in Pittsburgh brought me that famous Pirates pillbox cap during the Series and I wore it proudly; that cap was actually quite the fashion statement at my middle school that year, despite its solid location in Yankees/Mets territory.
Meet our new writer, Patricia Beninato
