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What's
The
LRKA Story?
You remember kickball, the big red ball, pegging your buds, hauling
tail to base, the dodging, the running, the good times...The sound of that big red
playground ball...
BA-LOING!! BA-LOING!!!! BA-LOING!!!! BA-LOING!!!!
 It is I,
The Grand
Poobah of All Things Kickball!
My name is Larry Betz and I am the founder and CEO of
The Little Rock Kickball Association, LLC.
here in Little Rock Arkansas. We have recently completed our nineth
season with a total of 102 teams in four leagues!
We have the Laid
Back league for those people who want to come out for the love of the game,
have great kickball fun and make friends from all walks. The Novice
League for those new to the game. The Intermediate
League is for those, like myself who want the competition that kickball has
to offer but doesn't wanna get blasted week after week by super studs.
The Competitive League is the league for all of those people who wanna take
their red ball action to the next level! Watch some of these games and
you will see just how much action kickball and the LRKA has to offer.
Fall 2008, promises to be even
bigger!
We have been in all the papers
including the worldwide publication,
The Christian
Science Monitor, Newsweek, The Economist Magazine,
CBS.com, on TV and radio and
everyone will tell you what a blast it is to be a grown up playing a kid's
game!!! And not to mention our end of season party!!!!!!!! Read the
great article that appeared in "The
Localist," it really gives a great accounting of the forming of the LRKA (Click
Here). Again, we had over 400 people at our last end of season party!!!! And
our playoffs had some of the most exciting Kickball Action ever since the
5th grade and The First Annual Kick "Ball" and Awards Party was the BIGGEST
PARTY Little Rock has ever seen!!! Congrats to the some little team
called DWS for their impressive Fall 2007
Ultimate Kickball Championship of the Entire Known Universe win in the
LRKA's Competitive League in spite of having John Morris on their team who
has nothing better to do on a Friday night but read this.
Do not forget that we are also
community minded and that we collected and sent 168 care packages overseas to
our brave men and women serving our county in Fall '04, collected over 400
packages, valued at over 4k for Operation Iraqi Children and we have raised
over 25k for Hearts and Hooves in the past year with The Great THV Kickball
Tournament in the Spring of '05, 06 and '07. That massive charitable
tournament has become an annual event for a good cause. That was
followed up by collecting almost 400 backpacks full of great supplies and back
packs for the
children of the Joseph Pfeiffer Youth Ranch two years running. Expect more community service and more kickball good deeds in '08!!!
We are looking to expand and
create The Mid-South Kickball Association and promote kickball NATIONWIDE. If your city needs some good ol'
fashion Kickball, contact me!!! I will gladly help you set up your own
league!!!
What's
New Today!!!!!!
See the latest and greatest pictures of
all the Kickball action on Flickr
Our Mission
It is the mission of this humble group to promote Kickball and all its
silliness to all corners of the known world. Furthermore, we are a socially
awkward and inappropriate group of K-Ball misfits bent on making the world
a better place through community building, public service, charitable work and grownups
playing outdoor
children's sports while hanging out with friends on Sundays.
We also make it our goal to promote Independent Kickball and to aid others in
setting up their own leagues!!!
Our Grand Profile
I, and all of the members of the LRKA, go out of our ways to ensure that a good time is had
by all and that all are invited to play. No one will ever be picked last
in our group!!! All are welcomed regardless of age, gender, race, or
athletic ability. We have one of the most dynamic and varied groups around
with people from all walks of life. It makes for a great time!!!
The LRKA is dedicated to increasing our level of community awareness
through building interest, connections within the community and by promoting
our community service projects. We promote good sportsmanship, outdoor activity, healthy exercise
and the building of friendships that last longer than one season...
We promote the use of our local public parks, pay our money to reserve and
use them and are dedicated to improving them and leaving those parks cleaner than we found
them....
We are dedicated to rewarding those people and businesses who sponsor us and
our league and most of all our good time!!!!
Our members come from all walks of life, all ages, all social
backgrounds, all occupations. Remember, everyone is invited to
play. We forget about the world one day a week and play
Kickball!!!!!!
I am always checking my email, like an obsessive chimp...always checking the
email....I will gladly send you all the info you need to start your own team,
schedules and rules. Hey, tell your friends you're playing Kickball and
they will not believe you!!!!!!!
General Information:
Telephone:
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501-563-1244
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- Postal address:
- 3707 F Gattin RD Benton, AR 72015
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- Electronic mail:
- thegrandpoo@yahoo.com
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