Sports and Rec: Kickball, Part 2
I did an article about kickball back in August, but I thought it was worth mentioning again since the Washington Post just had a story about it:
Travel the metropolitan region and there are the familiar signs of sporting life, the joggers running along the Potomac, the kids playing hoops off South Capitol Street, the Frisbee players tossing discs in Rock Creek Park. But among young professionals, the passion of the moment is kickball, a staple of pre-adolescence that has enraptured some 7,000 across the area, from Alexandria to Annapolis to Bethesda, and thousands more nationwide.
The lure of kickball, a game played with an oversized red ball and modeled after baseball, is rooted in the chance to relive grade school, scuffed knees and all, as well as the same adult-as-child irony that has fueled interest in movies like “Dodgeball.” There are teams with names like Running With Scissors and Last Kid Picked and The Well Hungarians.
But the greatest draw appears to be the chance to meet single men and women and drink beer, not only after the game but before.
Read the whole story (registration required).
Also, if you want to make kickball your job, check out the ad that the World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) just put out. It only pays 25K but it sounds like great time. If I didn’t have a mortgage, car payments, and a dog that would go hungry I would be all over it.
Stay tuned for more news about the possibility of kickball in Frederick, Maryland.
