Was a semi-professional baseball player in high school and considered going full professional, before deciding to become an actor. Ironically, a major plot point of
Take Me out to the Holosuite (1998) was that his character, Rom, was a bad baseball player. In fact, Grodénchik was literally incapable of playing as badly as he was supposed to, which is why Rom plays left-handed in the episode; it was the only way Grodénchik could avoid looking like a skilled player trying to play like a bad player.
