'Beep Ball' Gets Blind in the Game

Baseball isn’t the national pastime only for those lucky stiffs who can see the ball. The blind have their own version of baseball, the Wall Street Journal reports, played with a beeping softball. Players use that beeping to time their swings and dive for balls. Some aspects are simplified—batters need only run to a single base before a fielder touches the ball to score a run—but its competitors play just as hard as their sighted counterparts.

“People don’t think it’s serious until they see a game,” says a National Beep Baseball Association VP. “They have a perception of what a blind person can do, and this shows them we can do a hell of a lot.” (More sports stories.)