[Sportsandrec] Teaching kids baseball

[Audrey Farnum]

Try www.sportsyncradio.com or a similar product. It's a radio with a slider switch on it that lets you delay a live radio broadcast to match it up with the TV. You could even connect it to a home stereo through the auxiliary input, mute the TV and you and your kids could listen to the same audio while they watch. Good luck

Audrey T. Farnum
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> On Apr 21, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Andrew Webb via Sportsandrec <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> I have a question that may or may not be appropriate for this list, as it
> has to do with watching sports rather than playing them.  I won't be the
> least bit offended if the list moderator informs me that I'm off topic, but
> in the meantime I'll give it a shot.  I am a blind dad with young sighted
> kids, and I'd like to teach them the basics of baseball. I'm quite
> knowledgeable about the game, so could go on incessantly about the rules,
> strategy, players, history, ballparks, etc.  However, I went blind only
> recently, thus the way I learned about baseball was visually, and that's the
> way my kids would be learning about it as well.  We've watched segments of a
> couple games on TV so far this season, and they show moderate interest, but
> I find it difficult to provide guidance on what they're watching when
> obviously I can't see what's on the screen.  Of course I can follow the same
> game on the radio and take my cues there, but the radio transmission is not
> exactly in sync with the action on TV (i.e., there is a delay of several
> seconds on the TV transmission), and thus I find it discombobulating trying
> to communicate with my kids while they watch TV and I listen to radio.
> 
> 
> 
> I just wondered if anybody had any thoughts, personal experience, or
> suggestions on this point?  Or if there are any organized groups of blind
> sports fans to which anyone could point me and to which I might turn for
> additional inspiration?  All leads are much appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew 
> 
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