From the Police to Pickleball
Charlie wants to improve and be a consistent 4.0 player. - If you ever play pickleball against Charlie Esposito and body bag him, nail him in the face or chest with an overhead smash, it won’t faze him. Charlie has been shot at. He’s walked in the dark in New York’s most dangerous neighborhoods. He’s confronted murderers, drug dealers and fugitives. You think a plastic ball scares him? Charlie was promoted in 1999 to sergeant by NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir - Charlie Esposito was a New York City police officer for 16 years. He spent much of that time patrolling crime-ridden housing projects in Brownsville, Brooklyn. One well-known newspaper columnist said patrolling those projects was “the toughest job in the entire police department,” and that “cops there were 10 times more likely to get killed” than anywhere else. Despite that, Charlie thrived on the action. “I loved it,” he tells me. He received many commendations and was promoted to sergeant in 1999. He says duri...