by Kevin Burton Before she went to bed Sunday night I told my co-manager/wife that we had lost our Muppets of Beepball League fantasy football opener, because we trailed by 46 points. The opponent was out of players but all our K&J Silvers team had left was one running back and our defense. …
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My Big Feat, Finding Cleats For My Big Feet
by Kevin Burton Don’t know how much I will play at the 2023 Beep Baseball World Series or how well I will do. But I know one thing: My shoes will fit. And that’s a very good start. My high school math teacher wrote down “Yale” as a suggestion for where I …
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Feeding Body, Mind And Spirit On The Road
by Kevin Burton Got an unexpected comfort on the road last week that filled the stomach and the heart. There isn’t much I don’t like about being on the road. I can see why so many people have written so many love songs to the road and the road life. I’ve spent …
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Our Democracy Could Use Another Truman
by Kevin Burton Not sure what I expected in advance from the Harry S. Truman Museum in Independence, Missouri, but I ended up in tears. Truman was the Vice President thrust into the presidency just 82 days into his term, following the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945. By then the tide …
Seeking An SOS From Beepball And ABBA
by Kevin Burton Eureka I say, eureka! I have my beep baseball problems figured out. In athletics they say, father time is undefeated, and that’s true. But all I need is a great idea, and an SOS, from ABBA. This is truly exciting! You’ve probably heard about ABBA Voyage, a virtual …
Living On Scrapper Time In 2023
by Kevin Burton Got a call I really, really needed May. 20. It got my juices flowing again. Which juices? My beep baseball and competition juices. Yes, let this serve as the official announcement: I have unretired from the sport of beep baseball again, this time to play for the Cleveland Scrappers. …
In Today’s America You Have To Pay Attention
by Kevin Burton Gonna make myself a sign, and I’ll tell you why. First, by way of explanation, a bit from my coaching days. When I began coaching the Wichita Sonics beep baseball team, I adopted the three rules that the late John Madden, the old Oakland Raiders coach, had for his …
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Blind BBC Reporter Gets Best Of Mugger
by Kevin Burton A blind BBC reporter, retrieved his cell phone from a mugger and restrained the assailant until help arrived, multiple sources reported in late December. “Wrong blind person, wrong day,” said Sean Dilley, a blind news reporter and project lead for the BBC’s Reframing Disability program. Dilley was taking a …
When Thumbs Up Doesn’t Come, Then What?
by Kevin Burton When I was a sort of young beep baseball player, I had a team mate who always talked about heart guards. Beep baseball is baseball for blind players. The ball is slightly bigger than a softball and depending on who made the ball, it can be quite hard. When …
My Bilingual Doubletalk In Mexico
by Kevin Burton My career as an English as a Second Language teacher came to an abrupt early end one night under the streetlights outside a small taco shop in Puebla. To tell you how and why that happened, I first turn to BBC writer Nicole Chang, who recently wrote about what speaking …
