Despite winning 97 games they weren’t good enough to make the playoffs, but the ‘85 Yankees made me a lifelong fan.
One of the best things about growing up in the 1980’s was the purity of our fandom. We didn’t have the constant 24-hour sports news cycle just yet or social media to break stories before they even reached the news. Sure, there were newspapers; most kids of the 80’s didn’t really read those unless we were looking for box scores. The...