As a kid, I played Little League Baseball...I was always much shorter than others my age, so my strike zone was measured in millimeters. I played two years, not always a starter, but a regular player. I lead the league in on base percentage, stolen bases and runs scored....WITHOUT getting a single hit!!! My first year, aged 8, I was walked each and every time at bat, the second year, I struck out once...my coach told me not to swing.
In the late 60s, during the tennis boom, I started to play tennis. Again my being quite short was a huge disadvantage for my serve, but I was solid off my groundstrokes, especially the backhand (one handed). In my twenties, I was a line umpire at major professional tennis tournaments, which I loved, watching the best players in the world from a few feet away. I would have liked to play pro tennis, but alas, at 5'1" fully grown adult, any pro sport was not in the cards for me (pun fully intended), but I can hold my own against pro poker players, as I did in the 2019
wsop Collossus event, finishing around 1350 out of about 22,000 entrants. At slightly shorter than I used to be due to shrinkage (not in the Seinfeld sense), and at 72 years of age, I consider lifting my grandchildren as my "weights" day of exercise.
. But it's a really rare person who wants to do that as a pro
