Blind Baseball

Blind baseball is usually played as beep baseball: an audible ball, buzzing bases and clear calls make batting, running and defence accessible to blind and visually impaired players.

LevelAdaptive FamilyBat-and-Ball Family CategoryBall sport

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Classification

Category Ball sport

Family Bat-and-Ball Family

Level Adaptive

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Beep baseball is an acoustically adapted baseball form.

Geeignet für Suitable for people who want to combine team play, short sprints and hearing orientation.

Cost Medium: specialist ball and bases are usually supplied by a team, school or programme. Team/programme costs, travel and possible personal protection/sport kit. Beep-baseball team, blind/visually impaired sport club or para-sport programme. Do not sensibly improvise without beep ball, buzzing bases and trained supervision.

First progress Ball and base orientation become tangible quickly; hitting timing and team defence need practice.

Fitness level medium

Was du brauchst

beep ball
buzzing bases
bat
blindfolds by format
coach
pitcher/catcher
open playing area

First steps

find beep-baseball team
learn ball and base sounds
practise safe running lanes
start pitching/timing slowly
play short innings

NBBA team, local blind-sport group, para-sport programme, school for visually impaired students or inclusive baseball project.

Keep running lanes clear, use clear stop calls and start only with supervision/trained group.

Weitere Angaben

Aliases Beep baseball, Beep Baseball

Tags baseball, para, adaptive, blind-sport, team, bat-and-ball, blind-baseball, ball-sport

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Score more runs than the opponent through hits and safe runs to activated bases.

Teilnehmer

Teams with batting, pitcher/catcher and defensive roles.

Spielfeld

Open field with home plate, defensive zone and activatable bases.

Wertung

Runs by reaching the buzzing base in time; outs by defence before base contact.

Ausrüstung

beep ball
buzzing bases
bat
blindfolds

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

NBBA Rules National Beep Baseball Association · official-rules · high
Beep Baseball in a Nutshell National Beep Baseball Association · beginner-guide · high
Beep Baseball: What Is It? WebMD · explainer · medium
Beep Baseball: An American Pastime Adapted Wisconsin Council of the Blind & Visually Impaired · community-story · medium