Tim Kirchin, what is your earliest memory of baseball?

My earliest memory was a game at Fenway Park.

I was probably six years old, maybe seven.

And I was sitting in the bleachers with my father and my brothers and Felix Mantia, hit a homer.

And I remember that vividly, like Felix Mantia just hit a homer and it came up kind of near us

in the grandstand. That's my first memory of actually going to a major league game and actually

remembering what I saw. And quite appropriately is with my father sitting right next to me and

my brothers also. Tim, I'm just doing the math here about Felix Mantia. He last played for the

Boston Red Sox in 1965. So this is a memory you vividly recall 57 years later, at least.

Well, again, Pablo, I've made this clear. I stink at everything. I am so bad at so many things.

The one thing that I've always, always, always loved is baseball. And I can remember stuff.

I remember stories. I remember uniform numbers. I remember statistics. Yes.

I can't remember anything else. We'll go to a party at somebody's house and my wife will say,

what did you think of the chandelier in the living room? And I don't even remember the living room.

I've alone the chandelier. But I do have a good memory. It's selective retention. We all have it.

So I remember stuff that happened a long, long time ago because then and still now, it was

important to me because it's baseball. So I tell all young people, don't be like me. You got to

learn more about the world than I do. You got to know who the Supreme Court justices are.

More than you need to know who hit the most home runs for every letter in the alphabet.

That stuff is not important, but sadly, it is for me.

Tim Kirchin is a baseball savant and he would never call himself that. Not in a million years,

by the way. But I don't really know how else to put it. He actually knows who hit the

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