The Spain Family Family that plays together, stays together.
The Spain Family
It’s a well-known adage that “the family that plays together, stays together.” In Glen Burnie, MD, this is particularly true of the Spain family, which, late in life for the adults and early on for three of the four children, discovered pool and as a result, have a table in their living room and something enviable to do as they, like the rest of us, practice our social distancing.
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hile the Spain children – Frank III (17), D’Angelo (9), Franki (7) and Demi (2) – have gotten a head start in what might turn out to be a career for one or all of them, their parents came to the sport late in their lives. Born in 1981, Frank II didn’t get involved with
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the sport until he was in his 30s. He’d been introduced to it during a 20062010 stint in the Marine Corps as an Aviation Operations Specialist (training pilots). “Back in the day,” Frank II recalled of time in the early 90s, “I used to work in a bowling alley.”
“When I came home from the Marine Corps,” he added, “I really didn’t start up playing in a pool league until 2015.” Initially, once the sport had sparked his interest, Frank II was looking to improve to the level where he could compete beyond local leagues, and potentially, professionally. He con-
