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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.

I played outfield in high school a little bit.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

My dad introduced me to baseball. Then one of my friends asked if I could play on a team; my dad said I could, and I just fell in love with the game.

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.