What happens when you are a newly addicted pickleball player and fracture a bone in your foot only two months after picking up a pickleball paddle for the first time and you can't play for the next 3 months?
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You start watching PickleballTV of course!
And if you watch PickleballTV, you start watching Major League Pickleball, and you begin to dream ....
What's the Dream?
- East Bay Team Pickleball League
- MLP/MiLP-style team pickleball
- at the local community level
This is not professional pickleball, and it's not even minor league pickleball. Those already exist, and if that is your dream, to turn pro or to compete at the highest amateur levels on a national stage, then go for it, but that is not what this league is about.
This league is about that local community-based, local community-driven experience of local community team sports that many of us cherish--whether from baseball, softball, soccer, volleyball, basketball, flag football, bowling, or any other team sport in which you might have participated as a kid or as an adult--brought home to pickleball!
The East Bay Team Pickleball League will launch in the Spring of 2026, but the conception and preparation for the League began 2 years earlier This blog will chronicle the creation and development of the East Bay Team Pickleball League as the first of what could become many such local community team pickleball leagues.