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Author Wanczyk, David, 1982- author.

Title Beep : inside the unseen world of baseball for the blind / David Wanczyk
Published Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, Ohio University Press, [2018]
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Contents Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Part 1: The Underdogs; Warming Up: The Kid; One: The Eyes of Texas; Two: The Rookies; Three: The Summer of '64; The Soul of Hoosier Beep Ball; Five: This Is Our Beeping City; Gallery; Part 2: The Whole Beeping World; Between Innings: The Dad; Six: An Eagle, the Buddha, a Rock, and the Girls; Seven: The Blind Boys of Summer; Part 3: The Green Fields of the Mind; Seventh-Inning Stretch: The Comeback; Eight: The Rough Patches; Nine: A Sense of Victory; Extra Innings: The Return of Homerun; The Champions of Beep Baseball; Acknowledgments; Index
Summary In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America's pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the blind is both innovative and intense
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 15, 2018)
Subject Baseball for people with visual disabilities.
Baseball players -- Biography
Blind athletes -- Biography
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Baseball for people with visual disabilities
Baseball players
Blind athletes
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804040822
0804040826