When she nailed a power ballad she sometimes had a grim, nononsense expression on her face, like a baseball pitcher who had landed the ball smack on an opponent's forehead.

He was a star baseball pitcher but was injured and unable to pitch in the state championship.

From 1908 to 1922, he also worked as a part-time semi-professional baseball pitcher.

He would come in with the ball clasped above his head in both hands as would a baseball pitcher.

Over the years, he has been seen as a basketball player, baseball pitcher, martial artist, swimmer, dancer and gymnast.