[Sportsandrec] Beep Baseball or not???

[Joe Shaw]

Kelly, I could not agree with you more here. That is a totally narly story 
and I thank you for telling it. I love your spirit of willingness to try 
most anything and believe we would all be better served and live a fuller 
life if we possessed such a spirit.
"We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time" "Oh no" "We 
could dance and party all night and drink some cherry wine" We Don't Have to 
Take Our Clothes Off Jermaine Stewart
JS NM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thornbury, Kelly" <kthornbury at bresnan.net>
To: <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:26 PM
Subject: [Sportsandrec] Beep Baseball or not???


> As one of my classes we had a section on softball...actually teaching 
> concepts and strategies. Being the only blind person in the class (or 
> program for that matter) the instructor and I decided that the fewer 
> adaptations we used, the more beneficial (from a teaching standpoint) it 
> would be for me. So, when in the outfield, yours truly pitched...I've seen 
> a correct slow pitch arc and understood the concept as a blind person, and 
> only needed to lay my cane on the ground for a general direction to the 
> hitter, and to have the hitter call out so I knew where she/he was. The 
> only concern was from one of my own teammates who was worried about me and 
> line drives...My response was that line drives would hit any pitcher 
> standing there (we didn't use gloves), and if it did hit me, what an 
> amazing stop that would be by the blind guy. When we were hitting, I was 
> allowed to pitch to myself; the opposing basemen would call out where our 
> bases were, and I would have a sighted runner along side me just for extra 
> support (all these kids were 15 years my younger, and most could outrun me 
> quite easily).
>
> So, how did all this work out??? Well, our team won the in class 
> tournament; on days the wind wasn't blowing I fielded a couple of 
> grounders by hearing the ball roll along the grass; I actually "stopped" 
> three line drives (two in the legs and one to the chest, all leaving 
> awesome bruises and great conversational topics later in the clubs); and 
> with all the "injuries" this was my favorite section and I had an amazing 
> time.
>
> I would love to try beep baseball (the chances of that here in Wyoming are 
> pretty remote right now), but I guess my point of this rambling is that 
> you can get out there and "facilitate" whatever game with whatever rules 
> gets you out there and having fun with friends. "Damn the rules, full 
> speed ahead" (thank you Admiral Farragut because I'm still not up on the 
> song lyrics thing yet).
>
> Kelly
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