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Alternative baseball for athletes with special needs

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Alternative baseball for athletes with special needs
Alternative baseball for athletes with special needs

For most, playing baseball was part of their childhood, but for Taylor Duncan that wasn’t necessarily the case.

“I was diagnosed with Autism at the age of 4,” Duncan shares, “as I got older, I faced a lot of social stigmas and I was often precluded from the same opportunities to play the traditional sports because of their negative perceptions of what one with autism can and cannot accomplish”.

Duncan didn’t want anyone else to experience that feeling of exclusion so he founded the Alternative Baseball League.

"Alternative Baseball provides the authentic baseball experience for teens and adults ages 15 years of age and older with Autism and other disabilities for physical and social skills enrichment in...

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