Adaptive blind baseball is removing all the barriers that may have previously kept them off the baseball field.
Adaptive blind baseball is removing all the barriers that may have previously kept some players off the baseball field.The young ball players may be visually impaired, but they certainly won’t be sidelined by their disabilities.
"The whole idea of the program is to basically give them the tools and skills that they need for future independence as young adults, so there’s a lot of teaching going on but it’s also about fun," Mitchell explains.Coaches and players from the New York Rockers, the first team of visually impaired athletes to play adaptive blind baseball in the United States, were on the field to show them the ropes.
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