We may have missed the boat.
When we started our Must Read Sports Books channel, we should have, could have, but didn’t account for sports books that didn't have much to do with sports instruction—our sweet spot.
What about entertaining sports books?
The Curious History of Pickleball: From Its Origins as Picklepong is one of them.
Author Patrick W. Smith, himself an entertaining figure, recounts how his family's adult beverage-infused lawn game may very well have serendipitously begat the pickled part of pickleball eventually, though he readily accounts that his circa 1959 to 1963 memories called that game picklepong.
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