She was a legend back in the day,
a day
when almost no one saw her play,
a day
before games were routinely televised,
before they were written about in the sporty pages,
before there were professional possibilities
available in her native land
And
so she moved on,
establishing
a new non-sports-related career
with
the same excellence she expressed on the court
Until . . .
Until
a professional league was created
and
the siren song of competition
was too strong for her to resist
And
so she tore herself away
from her non-playing career
to test herself against players
little more than half her age,
and
what could bring that about
other than love of the game
But
time had eroded,
though
not worn away completely,
her once-considerable skills,
leaving
the audience thankful
for the
occasional glimpse
of her past greatness,
yet
at the same time sad,
sad that no record remained of her prime,
a prime that had been played
behind the gender line-----
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