The 80-year-old baseball rookie

But he’s playing baseball.

Hipscher returned from Ft. Myers. Florida, where he participated in the Boston Red Sox Fantasy Camp.

“It was tough,” he said, “Not the camp,” he laughed. “It was tough because I’ve always been a Dodger fan.”

In fact, Hipscher made it clear that when he wasn’t on the field playing, he did wear his Dodger blue — a Brooklyn baseball cap with the white button on the top.

“This was all my wife’s idea,” he said. “She thought it would be a great present for my 78th birthday.

“But the waiting list for the Mets’ camp was a year away, and I really hated the Yankees.”

And so do Red Sox fans, but things looked good for Hipscher with the BoSox camp in Florida last month.

That, too, was a close call, as the Midwood High grad (’60) had a pacemaker installed on December 1, when he turned 79.

No. Mike Hipscher isn’t a stranger to the bat, ball and glove.

“I played baseball four years at Brooklyn College under four different coaches,” he said.

He was a shortstop at BC, and he also played catcher in 10 games as a senior. He played three years of baseball at Midwood — and in his spare time at Brooklyn College, he played freshman basketball.

“I took an extra year to graduate Brooklyn,” he said, “And the soccer coach recruited me as a goalie.”

All he did was to make second team all-Conference as a 21-year-old goalkeeper — he graduated high school at 16.

But Fantasy Camp, well, was a different story.

“We were each given two uniforms with our names on them,” he said. “We arrived on a Saturday, and on Sunday night the coaches staged a draft to select their teams.”

There were 12 members on each team, 10 teams and two five-team divisions Hipscher recounted.

Oil Can Boyd, Jeff Reardan, Bob Montgomery and Frank Viola served as the coaches, he said.

“In fact, Frank traded for me,” Hipscher said. “I told him (Frank) I coached against him when he pitched for St. John’s University.

“We had a…