I don't know about the correlation, but the dislike of team sports certainly runs in my family.
I do think team sports (baseball, football, etc.) certainly require a different sort of smarts that is not necessarily academic. As CCN pointed out, there is so much to be kept track of in every moment of a ball game, and my brain simply doesn't function that way. I have never understood how people can just automatically know, inside the game, whether they need to throw the ball to this base or another base or tag the runner instead, or who even has the football and how far it has to go for a first down, and so on. (which is not to say that I don't understand it from outside) I always lived in fear that somebody would hit the ball near me and I'd have to do something with it, because I never had any idea what that something would be (except for wrong). The only basket I ever made was in the wrong goal. I nearly got beaten up for pointing out that my questionable goalie skills in soccer would be less tested if the rest of the team would keep the ball at the other end of the field where it belonged. PE was a nightmare for me, and I'm cautiously amazed each year that my son gets along decently with it. Of course, middle school and high school PE are yet to come.
