Kickball is a wholly different thing, sir! The salvation of so many young nerds like myself, whose deficiencies in athleticism were so often mistaken for lack of masculinity, and conscripted every recess into some fucking sport. In goddamned California. What kind of heteronormativist brainwashing bullshit was that? The girls didn't have to play sports every damn recess. I don't think they did that in Sparta.
But finally, we noodle-armed or spherical proto-men, could pretend we were playing baseball, with a feel more like softball, only softened more than T-ball, and go kick a ball once and sit back down.