Croquet is hands-down one of the classiest lawn games there is. The hoity-toity sport, which began back in France, came Stateside in the mid-1800s and was soon popular coast-to-coast. Nowadays, it’s a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Croquet is typically a friendly game, a backyard competition, a diversion to be pulled out after burgers and before volleyball.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAROLINA BEACH, NC (WWAY) — The community is invited to attend the 4th annual Fancy Pants Croquet Soirée in Carolina Beach ...