Croquet is typically a friendly game, a backyard competition, a diversion to be pulled out after burgers and before volleyball. But once one player's ball bumps into another's, it's time to whack ...

1. Croquet is believed to have its origins in 17th-century palle-maille, a game often played in London’s Pall Mall. It has been said that only tobacco smoke spread faster through the British Empire.

Clad in various shades of white, the three men stood with mallets at their sides, the broad, close-cropped court in Roxbury Park spread out around them. They spoke a language known only to other ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Even as dark clouds threaten to ruin a peaceful morning, click-clucks break the quiet on the green at city park. It’s not golf or tennis. It’s croquet. “I didn’t even play as ...

Years ago, it seems that almost every house, whether in the suburbs or the country, had a patch of grass large enough for a family to put up a net and play a game of badminton. When I was growing up, ...

Dan Whited's shiny scarlet ball shoots downhill, slaloming between clumps of long, soggy grass in Seattle's Gas Works Park. Hitting the asphalt trail, it banks 90 degrees and hurtles toward Lake Union ...

Two grown men whacked four colored balls with wooden hammers for the championship of the world Saturday, and nobody paid the slightest attention. That's how it is in big-time croquet, said the ...

For most people, croquet is a quaint pastime that they've read about in history books. Or they can visualize the most famous game of Victorian croquet: Alice of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" ...

When I was growing up croquet was something we got served up at tea time as an alternative to mashed potato. The idea of striking a few balls round a manicured lawn with a wooden mallet was as alien ...