Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Bainbridge Island, WA

 
On Pickleball's 50th anniversary, The Pickleball Channel produced 

On November 8, 2021, the number one professional pickleball player in the world, Ben Johns, 22, and his team BLQK won the The Pritchard Cup at Major League Pickleball's first tournament in Dripping Springs, Texas.  

History Link: Joel Pritchard and several friends incorporate Pickle Ball Inc., to promote the new sport they invented in 1965 at Pritchard's Bainbridge Island cabin, on February 13, 1968. 

Bainbridge Island Historical Museum - Pickleball History Zoom Discussion Panel


The International Federation of Pickleball (IFP)


The Founders Tournament celebrates the unique history of Pickleball in the birthplace of the game: Baindridge Island.

 

 
2019: Frank Pritchard, son of late Congressman Joel Pritchard, and Bill Bell, III, son of Bill Bell Jr., share their memories of that fateful day in the Summer of 1965, when the sport of pickleball was invented.


2016 Pickleball Magazine: Pickleball 50 Years In The Making 


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BKAT Bremerton-Kitsap Access Television: Senior Center Pickleball (Nov. 2021) 

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