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There's a new game in town Pickleball being played in Wooster
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By DAN BROWN
Daily Record Sports Writer
WOOSTER -- For the past ten years, Don Walker and his wife
Harolyn have packed up their motor home and made the almost 2,000-
mile trip to Arizona in the winter and every time the couple of 48
years has always done the same thing.
Every venture to the southwest included the pair taking part in a
friendly game of pickleball.
That's right, pickleball.
A simple game that is played on a badminton court with a wooden
paddle ...
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