Questions and Answers
1. When was Pickle Ball invented?
Answer Summer of 1965
2. Where was Pickle Ball invented?
Answer Bainbridge Island near Seattle, Washington
3. Why was it invented?
Answer To provide a sport for the entire family
4. What three people invented it?
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, Answer U.S. Congressman Joel Pritchard, William Bell, and Barney McCallum
5. What was Pickle Ball named after?
Answer The family dog that would chase after the errant balls and then hide in the bushes, thus Pickle's ball
which was later shortened to the namesake of Pickle ball
6. Where was it initially played?
Answer In their backyards on a hard surface, on driveways, and on residential dead-end streets
7. Where is pickle ball played today?
Answer In thousands of school P.E. programs, parks and recreation centers, correctional facilities,
camps, YMCA's and retirement communities
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