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History of Raquetball
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Racquetball was invented in 1949 by Joseph George Sobek in Bridgeport, Connecticut on a handball court. It started when Sobek was unhappy with the indoor racquet sports then available and decided to create a new game that would get his heart rate up and would also be easy to learn. He took the basics of handball and squash and modified it to his new game he called "paddle racquets" now currently known as racquetball. He then single-handedly promoted the sport and founded the Paddle Rackets Association to generate interest in new invention. Then a few years later a group of racquetball players formed an association under the direction of Robert Kendler who headed the U.S. Handball Association, in 1968 and the sport took off. Soon thereafter Sobek took himself out of the picture and returned to his work as a tennis professional.
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Title: History of Raquetball
Words: 646
Rating: None
Pages: 2.6
submitted by: bubbabreast
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