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I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.

I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

I was a sports kid.

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.