FLOAT BALL

FLOAT BALL

“There’s a bonus,” said the game’s promoter, Ken Harvey, speaking to an attentive audience of National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers, technicians and scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center here recently, “where you have to pick up a person holding a certain ball and throw them through a hoop as a sort of extra point.”

For Ex-N.F.L. Star, a Dream of Sports in Space, some Triscuits, raw cookie dough, bong, condescension, ridicule by peers, the media and NASA techs