Saul Bellow loves the game. Elvis Presley has his own court. The football teams at Notre Dame and Michigan State practice it as part of their training programs. Illinois Governor-elect James Thompson and Wayne Rogers have learned it and, at a California club partially owned by OJ. Simpson, so have many others. In fact, nearly 3 million people have taken up racquetballan indoor racquet game played on handball courtsin the past six years, making it the new boom sport of the tennis-conscious '70s. To accommodate it, new courts are rising as quicklyand conspicuouslyas the welts caused by the hollow, rubber racquetball.
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