The fastest growing sport in the US, pickleball is as accessible as it is fun

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The fastest growing sport in the US, pickleball is as accessible as it is fun

Growing up, Michael Lipp and his father had a tradition on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. After services at Congregation Agudath Achim in Taunton, Massachusetts, where the elder Lipp was a part-time cantor, they’d play golf at a nearby country club, whose links were largely empty because most of its members were Jewish. Lipp had polio as a toddler, and used crutches or wore braces throughout his childhood, but his dad, Stanley, did not let his…