I’ve been a zealous Philadelphia Phillies fan since I was a child, having inherited my devotion from my dad. We’d sit together on the back deck of our house on summer evenings, listening to Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Kalas deliver the play-by-play on the radio. We lived and died with each Phillies win and loss. Now I’m the mother of two adult children, one of whom I’m sorry to say shares my intense fandom and the other of whom somehow manages to keep Phillies losses in perspective.