[ukhotstove]

I started following baseball in 1986 listening to the World Series on the US Armed Forces radio station, in 1995 I really got into it when they started showing live games on TV in the UK. In between 86 and 95 I'd also relied on videos of games, anyway it was usually the popular teams and players who were on TV, Yankees, Braves, Mariners, Griffey, Orioles and Ripken etc.

So I never stuck with a team, usually following players like Matheny, Dykstra, Rey Ordonez amongst others. I have a cousin stateside who I've driven mad because I havent followed a team so he would decide on what team I'd be following from now on. So I opened my Christmas present from him containing a few Tigers things like bobblehead, cap, beanie etc. So looks like I'm a Detroit Tigers fan, one things for certain nobody can say I'm a bandwagon jumper. By the way he's a White Sox fan, think he was taking the urine if truth be known.