The Eyes Free Sports Podcast: Ep. 40 - Talking Beep Baseball with Kalari Girtley-Jackson

In Episode 40 of the Eyes Free Sports podcast, we visit with highly accomplished beep baseball player and advocate Kalari Girtley-Jackson. She spoke about:

• Suddenly becoming visually impaired at the age of six
• Growing up in Chicago and playing sports as a young girl
• How she discovered beep baseball
• How getting involved in beep baseball has transformed her outlook in so many ways
• Why she says she feels “normal” when she is at a beep baseball event
• A funny story about when she was interning with the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
• Her involvement in the Women of Our League (WOOL) exhibition game at the World Series each year and her goal for an all-women’s team to compete against the entire league
• Her appearance on the MLB Network to raise awareness about beep baseball thanks to the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF)
• A contest through Orcam she won in which she traveled to Barcelona, Spain to meet several blind athletes from around the world and a soccer superstar
• Why she says blindness is a “universal language”