Life Begins at 70

A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Alan Mindell was a varsity baseball center fielder there for three years.  Since he turned seventy, he won four gold medals as a sprinter in the 2012 San Diego Senior Olympics and won a gold medal in the 2014 California State Games in Escondido.  His winning time in a track meet at Cal State San Marcos was among the top ten in the WORLD for the 400 meters in his age group for 2014.  His novel The Closer, a heartwarming baseball love story about a knuckle-balling relief pitcher, was published (not self-published) in 2013 and became a bestseller, including being the number one paperback in new sports fiction.  His new novel, The B Team, about horse racing, also became the number one bestselling paperback in new sports fiction.  He also dances regularly in the San Diego area and works as a tour guide.  For him, his speaking topic of "Life Begins At Seventy" certainly fits