@CBS Sunday Morning the history of pickleball part 1!

It all started, more or less, out of necessity. The inaugural game was this very ball. Oh, wow. This is the Cozum Fun Ball. You can see his safety play is the little label on there. And so the bat was around here wherever, but the ball is what they grabbed, Bill Bell and Joe. David McCallum remembers back in 1965 when a couple of neighborhood dads here on Bainbridge Island, Washington, Bill Bell and Joel Pritchard were looking for something, anything, to keep their bored kids entertained. They had some pieces of wood, a plastic ball, and a badminton court, so they made up a game on the spot and named it Pickleball. The Pickles version of the naming is that Pickles would run around here in these bushes and grab the ball, so they named it after Pickles the dog. But there's also some speculation that Pickles was born after the game was introduced.