[A player practices for the National Beepball Association's World Series]

batter swings at a baseball fitted with a high-pitched beeper

[A player practices for the National Beepball Association's World Series]

Description:

Cowtown Roadrunners, a regional baseball team for visually impaired athletes, practice for the National Beepball Association's World Series; batter swings at a baseball fitted with a high-pitched beeper, 08/14/1988. The batter is wearing a blindfold as he swings and a man behind him is squatting with one hand resting on his knee and the other stretched out towards the batter.

Item File:

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Topic:

Sensory Disability, Sports and Entertainment, Service Organizations

Keywords:

Beep baseball, Blind, Sports for people with disabilities, Adapted sports

Organizations:

Cowtown Roadrunners

National Beep Baseball Association World Series

Creator:

Yee, James (Photographer)

Date Created:

1988-08-14

Image Type:

Color, Negative

Language:

English (United States)

Collection:

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection. Series 6: Negatives

Identifier:

10014131

Call Number:

AR406-6 08/14/1988 8715

Publisher:

University of Texas at Arlington

Rights:

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Rights Holder:

University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections

License:

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)