by Mike Melendez | Feb 24, 2018 | Blogs
The Poker Game By Michael Leiman The competition at the five paddleball courts off Carmine Street in Manhattan was ferocious. No one wanted to lose and all of us fought like mad, yelled like mad, disputed calls like mad, to avoid it. But, in the end, one team got to...
by Mike Melendez | Oct 18, 2017 | Blogs, Legend of the Game
Bobby Schwarz Legend of the Game By Andy Krosnick I’m writing this as a first hand witness, in my educated opinion, and someone who has played with the two greatest players the game has known! Baseball purists know that Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb were the greatest...
by Mike Melendez | Sep 11, 2017 | Blogs
Let’s go back to 1971 when paddleball was starting to take off at the city playgrounds, up in the Catskills, in Florida and the many beach clubs in the NYC area. It was played with wooden paddles and a “555” handball. The man who was at the forefront...
by Mike Melendez | Jul 13, 2017 | Blogs
I Got Next!?? “I got next!”, the slogan of the PFA, has a different meaning in Midland Beach, Staten Island. A player can’t simply pick the court and partner he or she likes and wait it out until it’s time to get on (zzzzz….). Is this...
