Peabody Is in Quite the Pickle
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2016 Peabody is in quite the pickle By Adam Swift ITEM STAFF PEABODY — It’s Friday morning at Corbeil Park, and the competitive juices are owing. Gary Pen eld twirls his racket, getting ready for mixed-doubles action with his partner, Kathy Pierce. Peter Sullivan, one of the foremost ambassadors of the game on the North Shore, rules one of the far courts. Sue Trainoff, only a year into the game, wipes the sweat from her brow. And Rob Eisenhauer sends his re- grets, taking his place on the disabled list after spraining his shoulder going for a ball earlier in the week. Tennis? Ping pong? Racquetball? While many of the athletes come from those racket sport backgrounds, what brings them to the West Peabody courts up to three times per week is pickleball, considered one of the fastest growing sports in the country. If you doubt its growing popularity, all you have to do is try to nd a parking spot on Hoover Ter- race after the games begin. “It’s a very popular sport down in the Southeast, in Florida and the Carolinas,” said Eisenhauer, who got interested PHOTOS | BOB ROCHE in the sport when he visited one of his Rob Evans, right, makes contact with a volley as his Joyce Finn, left, watches as Shirley Gallo returns a volley partner John Donovan stands at the ready during a during a pickleball match at Corbeil Park in Peabody. PICKLEBALL, A7 pickleball match at Corbeil Park. STEVE KRAUSE COMMENTARY Swampscott Harbormaster in hot water By Thor Jourgensen mine if criminal charges should be led terim harbormaster.
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