Episode 239: "The Sporting Life" with Haven Pell

Sometimes, no it's almost all the time, I wish I could spend more time playing the many sports I love to play.

But I don't.

Instead, like most of us, I get caught up in organizations, politics, work, and all the other stuff that life seems to tee up.

So it was a joy to catch up on this episode with my friend Haven Pell, a man who has successfully managed to do these things while also being a lifelong sports participant, and who has tried more than 100 different ones. Perhaps the most unusual is court tennis, the predecessor to modern tennis, which is still played by about 6,000 people in roughly 50 venues in England, France, Australia and the US.

Haven's just published a wonderful and quirky book Around the World in Fifty Courts about the game of "real" tennis, also known as court tennis. It's not yet on Amazon but you can find it on his publisher's web site.

Read more: https://www.billwalton.substack.com