by Kevin Burton Since when does a single beep baseball practice merit a blog post? Since it’s the first one I’ve had since the Obama administration. It has been a while folks. My Columbus friends invited me to join this team of extremely well-seasoned veteran players for a last beep baseball hurrah. …
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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 …
Virus Won’t Stop World Series This Year
by Kevin Burton The board that governs beep baseball may ban the traditional end-of-game handshake at the upcoming 2021 World Series to avoid the spread of Covid 19. But if that happens it will be one of the few virus concessions employed by a sport that is thrilled to have its signature event …
Bonnie Raitt And Stoking The Beepball Fire
by Kevin Burton I’ve always turned to Bonnie Raitt to raise the temperature in all things beep baseball. Boy do I ever need the help just now. I mentioned last month on Page 7 that some friends invited me to join the new USA Legends beepball team (“Let’s Hear It For Geezer Beepball,” …
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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 …
I’ll Be On My Best Behavior, Promise
by Kevin Burton The beep baseball league wanted me to sign a code of conduct agreement in order to appear in the 2021 World Series. It’s one of many things that has changed since I retired as a player/manager five years ago. It makes me smile. Required is actually the word, …
Beepball Showcases Abilities Of The Blind
by Kevin Burton What some could see as just a game has enriched me as a person with low vision, in ways I could not have anticipated. The sport is called beep baseball. It has been played in the United States since the 1970s and is now played in Canada, Taiwan and the …
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Let’s Hear It For Geezer Beepball
By Kevin Burton In a recent post about attempting to move forward in a Covidized world, I mentioned a project (“The Covid Question Still Looms Over All,” March 24). I mentioned that some friends asked my wife and me to participate in a major collaborative effort, without giving details. As of Tuesday …
Blind Cooks Teach More Than Recipes
by Kevin Burton How does a blind person prepare a meal? The methods vary, but always include great attention to detail. On one of my Facebook groups I stumbled upon an announcement about a TV show featuring blind cooks. It’s called the Cooking Without Looking TV Show. I caught the monthly zoomcast version …
NBBA Board Wants To Play Ball In 2021
by Kevin Burton The governing body of beep baseball on Saturday put the sport on a course to return to playing in 2021. All sports have had some level of interruption this year because of the Coronavirus. For the National Beep Baseball Association, it meant not playing a world series for the first …
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