GLASGOW — Eugene Martin has done just about everything in his life. He has been a dairy and tobacco farmer, electrician, welder, and many other things throughout his 88 years.

He built his house from the bottom up. He built the barn and made cabinets in his workshop at the back of his property on Dripping Springs Road for years. Sitting in his favorite chair, next to the TV schedule for Bonanza and Gunsmoke, he can see the house he built for his late mother just down the hill.

So, for him, a tabletop was pretty simple. Why not make it with an interchangeable top that represents the sports he played as a boy? Why not add a football field, a basketball court and a croquet yard?

“I’m one of the craziest minds you’ve ever seen,” Martin said with a laugh. “It’s just one of those things, one thing just built on another. There was no reason for anything, it’s just unique.”

The idea for the table started when he wanted to make a baseball bat. He’d never made one before, and after decades of woodworking, wondered why. After a cousin gave him the measurements, he used the tools in his shed, took a piece of cedar from the pile he’d collected and carved himself a bat. He had some cherry laying around, so he made one with that, and another with white pine. Soon he had four bats (after finding some maple to make another) and the idea to make a table.

He stood the bats on end and placed a piece of plywood between them. The baseball diamond came first because of his love of the sport, from when he played as he grew up in Glasgow. In the late 1930s, when Martin was 15 until he was about 20, he played baseball on Sunday afternoons with the Chestnut Grove boys baseball team on a field that is now the Central Center Shopping Center on Happy Valley Road. He was one of the boys that started on the younger team when they saw the men’s team that had been playing there for years.

Martin is the last living member of either team, and he keeps their memory alive with the baseball lineup on his homemade baseball field.

Another memory from his childhood lies just under the baseball field; a croquet yard with removable wickets, homemade mallets and balls.

“My brother and I used to play all the time when I was a kid, and my daughter and I play [the tabletop version] now,” Martin said, nudging the green ball through the path of wickets to show how it’s done.

Martin’s kids have inspired some of the table as well. The basketball court is painted red in honor of his daughter and son-in-law, Loretta and Harrell Murrey, graduates of Western Kentucky University. Loretta is also employed there, and Martin’s granddaughter, Ellen, is currently attending WKU.

Harrell Murrey is also a football fan, so Martin built a football field under the basketball court.

After about a month, Martin finished the table. Martin now has players for every game except croquet — figures he and his daughter and son-in-law found in a birthday party supply store — and keeps the players and the croquet equipment in a drawer he made under the bottom tier of playing surfaces. Since no croquet players seem to exist, Loretta gave him the idea to make mallets and make it playable. But no matter what he decided to do with it, she was just glad to see him keep busy during the cold winter months, especially after his wife of 62 years died in August.

“I’m proud of him for having so much enthusiasm, creativity and ability at the age of 88,” Murrey said. “We’re thrilled about this.”

Since finishing the table, Martin has gone on to walking sticks. He found a branch of a bush in his yard that a vine had wrapped around, causing a thick spiral around the top of the branch.

“That’s not carved, the vine just grabbed hold and it wouldn’t let go! So I cut off the branch and ripped that vine off and it’s a cane,” Martin said.

Continuing his inventiveness, he took the legs of gliding porch chairs, bent the end and made them into aluminum canes. He received a brass topped cane with a chain from a friend, and was able to replicate it with the cherry, maple and oak he had sitting around.

At his daughter’s house he has numerous wood farm toys that he’s made over the last four or five years.

He thinks he might repaint the football field because he doesn’t quite like the look of it. After that’s done, he doesn’t know what will come next.

“It’s just whatever comes into my head,” Martin said. With a smile, he looked down at his pool table and knocked on it. “I bet I could make a pool table.”