Pickleball, a sport which bills itself as the nation’s fastest growing sport, will be getting a major boost in New York as the wintertime Wollman Rink in Central Park is converted into a massive pickleball court in the heart of Manhattan. But not everyone is happy.
This summer, Wollman Rink is opening 14 brand new athletic courts—for a sport you may never have heard of: pickleball.
According to usapickleball.org, pickleball was invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, Washington. Behind its creation were three men, all fathers, whose children had grown...