by Kevin Burton More notes from the Beep Baseball World Series just competed Saturday: I did not know until the day before the ceremony that my longtime Columbus teammate and friend Rob Weigand was being inducted into the Beep Baseball Hall of Fame at the same time I was. I was notified …
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Legends Hang On, Beat Bayou City Heat
by Kevin Burton The USA Legends scored six in the top of the first, then held on to beat Bayou City 11-10 Friday. The win earned the team 11th place in the 2021 National Beep Baseball Association World Series. The grand experiment in AARP beepball netted four wins and four losses against younger …
Legends Fade Under The Wichita Heat
by Kevin Burton The following is not a Page 7 exclusive by any means, everybody knows it: in the sports world, Father Time is still undefeated. It is true in all sports, even baseball for the blind. Father Time administers a butt kicking even more consistently than the Indy Thunder. To …
3-1 Legends Face World Champion Thunder
by Kevin Burton The USA Legends ran their record to 3-1 at the 2021 Beep Baseball World Series with an 11-3 win over the Philadelphia Fire Wednesday. Leadoff batter Marvin Morgan continued his hot hitting with four runs in five at-bats to set the tone. The Legends have exceeded expectations thus far, …
Legends Win Twice, Play Philly Fire Next
by Kevin Burton My USA Legends got the game they needed to get Tuesday at the Beep Baseball World Series in Wichita. And I survived five hours of baseball after five years off. Game one of our tripleheader was a 4-3 win over Tyler. The Legends came back from a 3-1 deficit, …
USA Legends Will Honor The Game
by Kevin Burton Last week I got and filled a trophy case. Next week, my play will probably not add any hardware to it. But you never know. You never know. That’s why the games are played on green grass under a blue sky, not on a computer. That’s why old men …
Thoughts Behind NBBA Code Of Conduct
by Kevin Burton Last Friday on Page 7 we had some fun with the National Beep Baseball Association’s code of conduct policy. I turned the clock back to a time even before my playing days and talked about brawls among Chicago teams. But the incidents weren’t limited to the Windy City. Former …
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