Bike Polo: Wild and Crazy, But Properly So

First kickball bounced up from elementary school playgrounds to adult leagues in cities across the land, and now we’ve got stockbrokers pedaling their way through chukkers in bicycle polo matches.  As this story in the L.A.Times reports, it’s hard to say exactly how many Americans play bicycle polo, but it is certainly a lot fewer than the 10,000 maniacs who belong to the Cycle Polo Federation of India. This tempting story looks at one team that travels from Baltimore to Philadelphia to Virginia for weekend games, and quotes the Baltimore stockbroker who founded the Mount Washington Bicycle Polo Association explaining that "There’s a perception that it’s dangerous, but the reality is that it’s a very safe sport."  If you really believe that, you may choose to learn more about the sport from the American Bicycle Polo Association.