Frank Chiappone gushes about pickleball like it’s therapy or crypto. “When I say it’s changed my life,” he says, “it’s not an exaggeration.”
The former KOMO sports anchor had never seen the paddle sport before happening upon it by accident a handful of years ago. Back then, the game invented on Bainbridge Island in 1965 was still surfacing only sporadically in Seattle. But Chiappone found some devotees at Maple Leaf Reservoir Park’s two public courts and, eventually, a massive community. “My circle of friends has expanded tenfold.”
The president of the Seattle Metro Pickleball Association is one of many locals, and Americans, in the total thrall
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