GILLETTE: I had bought this basketball rim as a like a twelve, thirteen-year-old. He used a similar strategy to shoot hoops when he first learned he was losing his sight.
But with just those two sounds, Lex could build a detailed picture of the game in his head, and see with crystal clarity what he had to do. HOFFMAN: Beeps and buzzes – they don’t seem like much. And so the ball makes a beeping sound and the bases make a buzzing sound. GILLETTE: Once I had lost my sight I found out about beep baseball, and that’s an adapted form of of baseball for the blind. REID HOFFMAN: That’s Lex Gillette, track and field athlete and four-time silver medal winner in the long jump at the Paralympics. So, I had an idea of how to swing a bat, how to, you know, catch a ball, and things like that. LEX GILLETTE: I played baseball before I lost my sight.
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