Once the paddles became available, the sport just kept growing. This led McCallum to create a company that makes paddles specifically designed for pickleball in 1972.
Instead of badminton rackets, they used plywood paddles.” The net was lowered to the level it is in tennis.
They found a Wiffle ball and used it in place of a shuttlecock. Secondly, they did not have proper badminton rackets - so they improvised. Firstly, there was no shuttlecock (birdie). They found that their families were bored, and they decided to play a game of badminton,” the report states. “The origins of the game of pickleball go back to Bainbridge Islands, Washington, in 1965 when ex-congressman Joel Pritchard, along with two other friends, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum, had just come home after a game of golf on a Saturday.
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