Long Island Hosts Blind Baseball Tourney
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - The ball beeped, the bases buzzed and the fans didn't cheer in this version of the national pastime. Four teams of blind baseball players turned out Saturday for a round-robin tournament on Long Island.
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Soupy fog made it impossible to see the ball. And the way Tom Lehman is playing at the Buick Invitational, it might be hard for the rest of the field to find him.
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COMMACK, New York  - Defending champion Paradorn  Srichaphan withstood a barrage of huge hitting to beat Swede  Joachim Johansson 3-6, 7-6, 6-3 and reach the semifinals of the  Long Island Cup Friday.
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A staple for many big-league clubs, the winter caravan, is on display throughout the USA. For example, the Arizona Diamondbacks are touring the state with their 2001 World Series trophy while some of the New York Mets rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
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The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were to play only one game of their scheduled doubleheader Monday. The first game was postponed because Tampa Bay was delayed leaving Florida because of Hurricane Frances.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Temple, clawing toward the .500 mark in the Atlantic 10 Conference, had dispatched three straight bottom-feeding opponents by an average of 28 points entering yesterday's game against the University of Massachusetts. Rather than being intimidated by the league leaders, however, the Owls had the vision to be standings-blind.
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Imagine. You play college baseball in Boston. You spent the winter hitting in poorly lit indoor cages with poor backgrounds. Finally, you get to play outside for the first time and you step in to face . . .
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A dozen blind students from across the United States are at a summer camp this week working on a project most don't associate with the visually impaired &#151; launching a NASA rocket.
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Splashing water and their index fingers pointed upward, the Boston English players shouted "uno" as photographers snapped their photo. They posed in front of the City Championship trophy, which they won by beating Latin Academy, 6-4, yesterday at English Field in the Boston City League's inaugural baseball tournament.
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HAVANA -- There are few places outside of Boston, New York, Houston, and St. Louis where the Major League playoffs are being followed with such keen interest as on this baseball-crazy island. Every day, upwards of 100 men, young and old, pay a visit to the ''Esquina Caliente,&quot; or ''hot corner&quot; in Havana's Central Park -- a legendary spot under ...
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A dozen blind students from across the United States are at a summer camp this week working on a project most don't associate with the visually impaired - launching a NASA rocket.    The students are designing and preparing the rocket's payload at the National Federation of the Blind's Jernigan Institute in Baltimore...
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Camouflaged in garb, transparent in talent. As the very best of Major League Lacrosse made itself at home at Harvard Stadium yesterday, the identities of the All-Stars may not have been so obvious, as the league's brightest wore green and sand-colored military uniforms.
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Ivan Castro carefully makes his way down the ski slopes. It may not seem like much, but for this Iraq war veteran it's a huge feat. Castro is blind. "It's been 16 months and slowly I've come to learn the things I'm able to do visually impaired," he says.
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COMMACK, New York  - Former world number one  Lleyton Hewitt and defending champion Paradorn Srichaphan moved  a step closer to a showdown at the $380,000 Long Island Cup  after coming through tough quarter-finals on Friday.
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COMMACK, New York  - Paradorn Srichaphan's bid to  become only the second man to win the $380,000 Long Island Cup  in three successive years ended when he lost 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 to  Luis Horna of Peru in a dramatic semifinal Saturday.
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Curry College is heading back to the Division 3 NCAA Tournament. The Colonels (9-1), New England's lone representative, opens postseason play tomorrow vs. Liberty League champion Hobart (8-1) at Boswell Field in Geneva, N.Y.
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IBM have developed an audio interface so that blind people can take part in online gaming.