A day in the park with a bunch of friends and a red, rubber ball getting kicked around a baseball field.
While it seems like a gathering of grade-schoolers, the Colorado Mile High Kickball Association has had adults reliving their childhoods the past four summers with league games on Wednesday evenings.
JR Hopwood, Denver coordinator for the World Adult Kickball Association (www.kickball.com), now has 15 teams and nearly 300 players — “20-somethings and 30-something working professionals” — who descend on City of Cuernavaca Park, in the shadow of Coors Field, to play.
“It’s all about the social aspect,” Hopwood says.
Rules are pretty much as they were when you played in elementary school. They parallel baseball rules, with balls, strikes and outs.
And the thing that makes it most interesting: “Just like in fifth grade, you can still peg people with the ball for an out,” Hopwood said.
Denver Post staff report
