When not playing, he’s just another aficionado, wowing over the pros’ shots and asking fellow players for tips. Try to talk to him about family or football during a match and he’ll invariably steer the conversation back to handball. “Can you believe this guy?” Plummer asks excitedly while watching a consolation match on the last day (surely a role reversal for 20-something Jeff Kastner to have an ex-NFL quarterback idolizing his game, especially when Jake is one of three spectators).
Nice article. But really I just posted it here to link to Joseph Epstein’s great collection of short stories, Fabulous Small Jews. There’s a handball story. Like the Jake Plummer article, it’s a small story of redemption.
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