I grew up watching the AL, and have fond memories watching Wade Boggs, Alan Trammell, and pitchers ride the pine when they weren't pitching. As a young, impressionable child, the NL was distant, foreign, and cold, with its concrete donut ballparks with artificial turf, unfamiliar stars like Andre Dawson, Tony Gwynn and Steve Garvey, and terrifying mascots like the Philly Phanatic and Youppi!.