Steph Curry’s dad, Dell, recalls baseball dreams and memories

Warriors fans should thank Stephen Curry’s dad for not pursuing a pro baseball career.

Who knows what would have happened had Steph, now a three-time NBA champion, grown up in baseball clubhouses and not basketball locker rooms.

“I’ve often wondered in hindsight how it would have been if I had tried to play baseball,” said Dell Curry, a onetime promising pitcher. “I thought I was a little better at baseball than basketball, but it worked out nonetheless.”

Understatement aside, there was a time in the elder Curry’s life when baseball was king. His favorite sport. The one he considered as a career. The thing is, pretty much every time he shot a basketball, it went in.