That's why I have never played the game. However, in its favour - as compared with most other outdoor sports - it does free one from dependency on others that team sports inevitably impose. Hell, if you liked, you could play it all alone and still have the pleasure - inasmuch as solitary ball games permit - and even break records! Isn't that what games are supposedly about? But in my original championing of it - the game - the point was that it would allow success or failure to depend on the self. I like those odds; always have. Suppose I'm slightly anti-social somewhere deep down, not that anyone would notice, of course.
Furthermore, it also provides a pleasant view as one exercises, which beats working out in gyms, not that I do that either, I have to own.
Rob