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Originally Posted by Rc Moser

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The game started during the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington at the home of Congressman Joel Pritchard, U.S. House of Representatives for the State of Washington. He and two of his friends, Bill Bell and Barney McCallum, returned from golf and found their families bored one Saturday afternoon."


"As the story is told, the whiffle ball belonged to the dog. Whenever an errant shot happened, Pickles would run and try to get the ball and hide it. They named the game for their dog’s ball, “Pickles’ Ball”, then it became Pickleball. The truth is the Pritchard family didn't get the dog until 1967,[2] so actually, the dog was named after the sport.

You can goggle for yourself in you want more information....

So if the dog was named after the sport, then why did they choose the name pickleball? I'm asking that of any reader. Thanks Rc for researching it for me.