Racquetball Hats

Racquetball once filled gyms. SportsDestinations puts the game at more than 30,000 courts at its peak and about 14,000 now, and still falling. Players went from 12 million in 1980 to 3.5 million in 2017. USA Racquetball peaked at 32,000 members in 1993 and was down to about 3,000 by March 2025, while pickleball reached 13.6 million participants in 2023. Courts have been converted to make room: Marco Island removed its only two racquetball courts for pickleball. US Squash's Kevin Klipstein describes the pattern dryly: "Racquetball once did the same thing to handball, and now squash to racquetball." Player Freddy Ramirez still says, "Racquetball will always be something that brings people together." These racquetball hats are for the players who stayed. RACQUETBALL and RACQUETBALL DAD are the badges. The sentence designs cover the sport that never left, the mayor of the YMCA, the question nobody expects an answer to (DO PEOPLE STILL PLAY RACQUETBALL? YES. ME.), glass courts and glass knees, goggles that are vintage now, and the ball in a closet. NEVER LEFT and the YES. ME. line each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the Y, or give one to the dad who still books a court.