Even Bill Gates Loves Pickleball

From Gates Notes Insider by Bill Gates: “I’ve been a little stunned—and delighted—by the sudden popularity of one of my favourite pastimes, a game with a funny name and strange terminology, such as, “dink,” “kitchen,” and “skinny singles”. Largely confined to the Pacific Northwest for decades, it has now emerged as America’s fastest-growing sport.

My dad was friends with the game’s inventors, Joel Pritchard, a state legislator and later Washington’s lieutenant governor, Barney McCallum, and Bill Bell. He learned about their creation and by the late 1960s, he got inspired to build a pickleball court at our house….I’ve been a “Pickler,” as people obsessed with the game like me are known, for more than 50 years. And if you and your family are bored and looking for something to do this summer, I encourage you to become one too…”

​Read the whole article here (4 minute read), and YouTube video below.