Antedating of "Racquetball"

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

I am not sure whether you are looking only at racQUetball as opposed to racKetball.  If not, it seems odd that the late 60s is the first attestation of either, as the game was invented in the early 1950s.
Fritz

>>> fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU 05/07/04 04:41AM >>>
racquetball (OED 1972)

1969 _Walla Walla Union Bulletin_ 7 Sept. 5/1 (Newspaperarchive.com)  Gym
instruction will include classes for both boys and girls, plus men and
women's fitness classes, youth gymnastics, youth handball and racquetball
instruction, weight training and jogging.

Fred Shapiro


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