As the legend goes, after playing golf one day during the summer of 1965, a congressman from Washington, Joel Pritchard, and his friends Barney McCallum and Bill Bell returned home to find their families sitting around listlessly yearning for something to do. On the property was an old badminton court, so Pritchard and Bell set about finding the equipment to play. Unable to locate the proper equipment, they improvised. They created four wooden paddles and found a perforated plastic ball. The three innovators created rules, based steeply in badminton, but also kept in mind they wanted a game that would …