Pickleball players in Baltimore County say they are, well, in a pickle.
There are not enough courts to handle the people who are grabbing pickleball paddles and playing the nation’s fastest growing sport.
One of the county’s senior centers, a hotbed for pickleball, challenged the county executive to build more courts, and to bring his best game.
At a February budget town hall, dozens of people from the Jacksonville Senior Center were waving pickleball paddles at County Executive Johnny Olszewski.
“I knew I should have brought my paddle tonight,” Olszewski said.
A couple of years ago, Olszewski played his first game ever at the senior center. He lost. At the town hall he said he was ready for a rematch.
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