Pickleball club swings into Mineral County
The Mineral County Rec Club is offering another pickleball class Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Superior Elementary School Gymnasium. It’s free for everyone to check out a sport that offers family fun with hopes of forming an organized group. (Monte Turner/Mineral Independent)
After playing golf one Saturday during the summer of 1965, Joel Pritchard, congressman from Washington State, and Bill Bell, a successful businessman, returned to Pritchard’s home on Bainbridge Island near Seattle to find their families sitting around with nothing to do.
The property had an old badminton court, so Pritchard and Bell looked for some badminton equipment and could not find a full set of rackets. They improvised and started playing with ping-pong paddles and a perforated plastic ball.
At first, they placed the net at badminton height of 60 inches and volleyed the ball over the net. As the weekend progressed, the players found that the ball bounced well on the asphalt surface and soon the net was lowered to 36 inches.
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