Pickleball, what is it?

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Pickleball has been around since the 1960s, is a paddle/racket game played outdoors and indoors where typically four players, two on each team hit a hollow perforated plastic ball (40-hole outdoor ball – 26-hole indoor ball) using solid-faced graphite or fiberglass paddles over a 36-inch-high net.

Teams on each side of the court hit the ball back and forth until one commits an infraction. Two can also play the game, one player on each side of the net.

Pickleball was invented in the summer of 1965 by three dads, Joel Pritchard, Bill Bell, and Barney McCallum in Bainbridge, a town outside of Seattle, WA. The three dads got together to discuss possible games for their kids to play during the summer, and Voilà, pickleball was born.

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