For those of you who enjoy the sport of racquetball, I thought you might like to know who invented it and when.

Joseph Sobek invented racquetball in 1950. Interestingly, he was working at a rubber manufacturing plant at the time. Sobek devoted years to promoting the game. Ironically, it was only after Sobek turned over the reigns of the sport to Robert Kendler (who was managing the U.S. Handball Association at the time) in 1968, that racquetball really took off.