Happy National Pickleball Day! Pickleball mania encompasses everything from pickleball bobbleheads to pickleball in the sky, and people spent $519 million on pickleball equipment last year. Nearly 9 million Americans are now playing the game, the Sports & Fitness Industry Association reports — an astounding year-over-year increase of 85.7%.
You don’t need to hear the constant thwacking sound emanating from pickleball courts to know that the sport has become a national obsession. And there’s a good chance you’re already part of the pickleball bandwagon: Nearly 9 million Americans are now playing the game, the Sports & Fitness Industry Association reports — an astounding year-over-year increase of 85.7%.
But to mark National Pickleball Day — yes, it’s really a thing — we’ve decided to look at the growth of the sport through a different lens, and take note of some unusual pickleball happenings. The kind of developments that might suggest the sport has crossed some line of commercial hysteria — or has even jumped the shark in terms of building its fan base.There’s now a pickleball bobblehead The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Milwaukee, is naturally behind the bobbleheads.
You can play pickleball in the sky OK, we’re not talking about a pickleball court on a plane . But we are talking about what’s being billed as the “world’s highest pickleball court,” located at the Tower Club Dallas on the 48th floor of a skyscraper. This was initially a limited-time offering for the month of July, but a spokeswoman for Invited, the owner-operator of the club, says it proved so popular that it’s returning in September.
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