Meet the country club crew that threw itself into pickleball

(August 30, 2017 Jackson, MS, www.clarionledger.com)

He hadn’t played tennis in 23 years. Two partial knee replacements, age and all that comes with it kept Peter Marks away from the game that gave him a scholarship at Ole Miss. He became an obsessive golfer instead. But when he went to visit his sister and her husband in Memphis a year ago now, they were playing this game called pickleball. Marks didn’t want to play. Simply wasn’t interested. But when he was walking to his car, a Mississippi State alum noticed the Ole Miss sticker on his car and egged him on to play. He gave in, tried it out and fell in love. Read More…