Folio Weekly: Pickleball Proves Great Minds Dink Alike
To the uninitiated, “pickleball” might sound like some weird appetizer your grandmother brings to family picnics. Or a gala for gherkin lovers.
What it actually is, however, is a sport. And not just any sport but one of the fastest growing recreational sports in the U.S. with almost 4.8 million regular players, a 40% increase since 2019.
So how is it that a game made up in the ‘60s by a couple of dads to entertain their bored kids become the biggest thing in sports in years, yet so many people have never heard of it?
