英语词汇paddleball的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

paddleball. A fast-growing amateur sport today, paddleball is played with the same basic rules as handball but with short- handled, perforated paddles, and a tennis-like ball. The sport was invented in 1930 by University of Michigan physical edu- cation teacher Earl Riskey. Riskey even invented the ball and paddle for the game, and along with James Naismith (of bas- ketball fame), William Morgan (the inventor of volleyball), and the Reverend Frank P. Beal (who invented paddle tennis), is one of the four people who are known to have invented a popu- lar sport.

词汇	paddleball
词源	paddleball. A fast-growing amateur sport today, paddleball is played with the same basic rules as handball but with short- handled, perforated paddles, and a tennis-like ball. The sport was invented in 1930 by University of Michigan physical edu- cation teacher Earl Riskey. Riskey even invented the ball and paddle for the game, and along with James Naismith (of bas- ketball fame), William Morgan (the inventor of volleyball), and the Reverend Frank P. Beal (who invented paddle tennis), is one of the four people who are known to have invented a popu- lar sport.
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