Clare had a
terrible time in high school with boys.
Basically, they were all afraid of her.
The image of a girl swinging a bat with authority kept all but the
bravest away, and there weren’t any brave boys that I can recall, outside of
one kid who asked for “privileges” he was denied.
Things started
off pretty much the same at college, with one difference—male athletes were now
interested in her. First two guys proved
to be duds, but the third, a football player, was the charm. Part of the attraction was that each person understood
the demands a sport in season makes on an athlete. That and all the usual bells and whistles
associated with true love.
I wonder if
anybody has done a study on who professional athletes, both male and female,
marry. It doesn’t seem that baseball
players are all that interested in someone with an athletic background, but
what about women athletes? Softball’s
Jennie Finch married MLB pitcher Casey Daigle while Misty May-Treanor of beach
volleyball fame is married to former catcher Matt Treanor. From all accounts, these are two pretty successful
marriages.
I suspect nothing and
nobody would have helped Cubs’ shortstop Addison Russell, whose ex-wife has
publicly accused him of cheating and physical abuse and who is subject to an
ongoing investigation by MLB. But for all
those other athletes out there, wouldn’t they be better off with people who had
some idea of exactly it was they were going through?
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