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Swimming was always my personal favorite sport as a lad. It teaches you to use muscles you don't know you have, along with providing an important skill: water survival. Playing tee ball and martial arts don't teach you how to avoid drowning or how to save someone else drowning.
Soccer will teach stamina in a way that football and baseball might not. It teaches foot and leg control better than most other sports, too, which is something lacking elsewhere.
I would say something like karate or tae kwan do, but frankly martial arts in the US has gone downhill since I was younger. Instead of teaching you important self-defense and philosophy, it teaches you how to score points in sparring which really isn't all that important a skill. If you can find a school that doesn't treat your kid like he's made of glass, go for it, but otherwise you're probably just wasting money.
Finally, there's piano. Yes, it's a sport; you can compete in it against other pianists. And it's perfectly physical as it requires a great deal of coordination and dexterity. Trust me, you need to keep piano as a priority for kids, it's the most important sport there is. Aside from being awesome, playing piano helps kids academically by stimulating the brain in unique ways. I have no doubt my high mathematics and science grades had a lot to do with learning how to read music and memorize theory and then apply those to playing.
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