The basketball Hall of Famer is excelling in a new sport as he approaches 80. He is not the only senior player who has found a new field to compete in
In a way, Rick Barry is a rookie again. With his 80th birthday approaching in late March, the NBA legend is eligible to be among the youngest players in the oldest age group in a sport that he is starting to dominate as he did long ago in basketball.
Like many septuagenarians over the past few years, Barry gave up his other post-retirement athletic pursuits, in his case tennis and golf, for another sport once widely associated with slow-moving retirees: pickleball.