I speak here of human interactive experiences.

I have lost my enthusiasm for most “sports” which have been infiltrated and overtaken by professionalism and greed. I played baseball from my earliest memories. As a pitcher my job was to fool the batters (turnabout is fair play—I was never more than mediocre as a hitter). I came to appreciate that baseball was essentially a hybrid game-a combination of individual skills played as a team effort. I also in later life appreciated the pace of the game and the fact that a variety of sizes and abilities could play the game (compared to speed and power that were needed for football and basketball for instance).

My other lifelong pursuit has been golf. It is the only game where the competition is between the individual self and topography, natural problems to solve. It can be turned into a player versus player thing but need not be. Certain board games have appealed but only those that have captured my mind (though chess has completely escaped me!)

Who knows where this will be going?