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Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind

David Wanczyk

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Description: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 beep three times per second like a troubling EKG and with bases that buzz, beep baseball is both innovative and intensely competitive. And when the best beep baseball team in America, the Austin Blackhawks, takes on its international rival, Taiwan Homerun, no one’s thinking about disability. What we find are athletes playing their hearts out for a championship.Wanczyk follows teams around the world and even joins them on the field to produce a riveting inside narrative about the game and its players. Can Austin’s Lupe Perez overcome his temper and lead his team to victory? Can Ethan Johnston, kidnapped and intentionally blinded as a child in Ethiopia, find a new home in beep baseball? Will Taiwan’s MVP Ching-kai Chen—“the looker” who is suspected of having better vision than he claims—keep up his incredible play? Do players come to terms with their blindness through the game, or does it inflame their close-to-the-surface frustration about their disability?Beep is the first book about blind baseball.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind. To get started finding Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 0804040826

Description: 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 beep three times per second like a troubling EKG and with bases that buzz, beep baseball is both innovative and intensely competitive. And when the best beep baseball team in America, the Austin Blackhawks, takes on its international rival, Taiwan Homerun, no one’s thinking about disability. What we find are athletes playing their hearts out for a championship.Wanczyk follows teams around the world and even joins them on the field to produce a riveting inside narrative about the game and its players. Can Austin’s Lupe Perez overcome his temper and lead his team to victory? Can Ethan Johnston, kidnapped and intentionally blinded as a child in Ethiopia, find a new home in beep baseball? Will Taiwan’s MVP Ching-kai Chen—“the looker” who is suspected of having better vision than he claims—keep up his incredible play? Do players come to terms with their blindness through the game, or does it inflame their close-to-the-surface frustration about their disability?Beep is the first book about blind baseball.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind. To get started finding Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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