Charles Barkley’s Baseball Toss Worse Than Golf Swing?

Finally, Charles Barkley is better at golf than another sport: baseball.

Asked to throw out the first pitch at a Chicago Cubs game last week at Wrigley Field, the rotund NBA Hall of Famer, clad in a Cubs jersey and hat, along with slacks and dress shoes, uncorked a ball that bounced and shipped away from the catcher, rolling to the backstop as cameramen and fans chuckled.

Barkley is famous in golfing circles for his unorthodox game and inability to find a consistent grip, swing or basically anything else. Once a 10-handicap during his playing days in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets, Barkley, 51 and the popular co-host of TNT’s Inside the NBA, freely admits he can no longer break 100 on the links.