Hi Tom, You might be familiar with a different style of beep baseball than I am. The version I'm familiar with has a sighted pitcher and a sighted catcher, both of whom are on the batter's team. When the batter hits a ball, he has to run directly to either third or first base before the people in the outfield, scrambling around on all fours, manage to pick up the ball. That's one of my biggest gripes with beep baseball. It's not real baseball. Is there a different version out there? Ryan On 6/8/12, Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > I don't know that we need a new sport, but we need to involve more > sighted players in the sports we do have. What I mean by that is > beeper baseball is very much like regular baseball accept we have > beepers for the baseball and bases. There is no reason we couldn't > have sighted players playing beeper baseball with us as I think we > would be even as far as accessibility goes. > > Same might be said for socker. I've actually played beeper socker with > sighted people before and its not really any different for them. The > only effective difference is that the ball rolls around beeping like > crazywhere a regular ball doesn't. Again, I think both blind and > sighted players would be pretty much even as far as accessibility > goes. > > The real problem is not that there aren't sports blind and sighted > people can play together, but nobody tends to bring the two groups > together. If a parent takes a blind child to a little league baseball > game the coach is likely to suggest that the parents of the child take > him/her to a beeper ball league instead. Which is quite sad, because > as long as the parents provide the little league team with a beeper > baseball there isn't any reason their child can't play with the > sighted kids. However, attitudes being what they are parents of blind > children tend to form their own leagues for beeper baseball while > parents of sighted children run little leagues for sighted kids > without much interaction between the two. > > There are other sports such as bowling that don't require sight > either. As long as someone lines the blind player up correctly and > he/she has a decent aim they can bowl with the rest of the sighted > people and be competitive. I've personally found I don't need the > guide rails and all the other stuff that is suppose to make bowling > more accessible for the blind. I just line up and bowl the best I can. > Which means if a blind player wants to he or she could compete against > sighted players more or less equally. > > Cheers!
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