Let's roll! Major League Bocce makes an old game young again

Aug 29, 2015 822

by Jennifer Wright

"MAJOR League Bocce" is exactly the sort of tongue-in-cheek name that works for a league that's "major" mostly in how fast it has grown. The casual, social sport league that is helping to rejuvenate the ancient game expects about 12,000 registered players this year in Philadelphia and 10 other cities nationwide.

In 2004, Sarah DeLucas and fellow co-founders started D.C. Bocce League with about 50 players as an alternative to an intramural kickball league that just wasn't cutting it. "People took kickball a little too seriously," she said, "getting out of their crap jobs and taking everything to the next level." "Basically, bocce is pairing sports recreation, all super casually, with going to the bar and getting drunk," DeLucas said. "We liked that concept a lot, but we really hated kickball."

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Source: http://articles.philly.com/

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