Some pains linger for a long, long time.
I began listening to the late legend Mark Holtz and the living legend Eric Nadel call Texas Rangers baseball in 1991. I did not have a driver's license yet but that wouldn’t stop me from commandeering the family car radio every chance I got. It was the year Brian Downing led off at DH and Dickie Thon split time at shortstop with Jeff Huson. It was all about Nolan Ryan that year, to be sure, but it was also about rooting for the team when Scott Chiamparino was on the mound.