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Registering your Team with the NBBA

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NBBA Newsletter

Recently, the NBBA web site was relocated and any email lists including the NBBA Newsletter had to be changed.
The Newsletter mailing list can now be subscribed to by sending a blank email to:
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If you have any difficulties or would like more clarification, please Contact:
Stephen Guerra, NBBA Secretary

NBBA Chat

The NBBA has created a email list where you can chat all about topics relating to the NBBA. If you would like to subscribe, please send a blank email to:
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NBBA Fall Board Meeting Audio

Click here to open or download the NBBA Board Meeting Conference call, held on November 7, 2009

NBBA Final Championship Game Audio

Click here to open or download the NBBA 2009 audio of the Championship game between the West Coast Dawgs and Taiwan Homerun, by Valley Sports Network

Contacting the NBBA

If you would like to make contact with different areas of the NBBA organization, please follow the below link to take you to our Contact page.
Contacting the NBBA

Beep Baseball in a Nutshell, did you know?

this document has been revised and updated for your reading pleasure.
Great thanks to Jim Mastro for his work to update this informative knowledge base for the NBBA.
New Beep Baseball in a Nutshell

The NBBA By-Laws

The NBBA By-Laws

Donating a Car Can Help the NBBA

Automobile donations are an incredibly fast and easy way to help The National Beep Baseball Association. Your car donations help support our Blind Athletes and are an easy way for you to get rid of an unwanted vehicle. Make a car donation through the NBBA web site.

Do you have a car you have no use for but you don't want to spend a bunch of time trying to sell it? You can make a real contribution to us with a donation of a car. When you donate your car to The National Beep Baseball Association your car is picked up for free and there is no paperwork hassle to deal with. Lend us your support, make a car donation. About Donate Car USA

Message from the Denver Beep Ball Group

The Denver Beepball is made of the finest materials available. It has been constructed to allow normal use of a softball; however, care should be exercised to keep it operational. Excessive heat has been determined to be the greatest reason for failure. It is best when not being used to keep the ball out of direct sunlight for any prolonged period of tie. Second biggest reason for failure is being hit directly on the speaker, identified by the small holes on the opposite side of the on/off pin. When the ball is pitched, it would be held with the holes facing the body (perpendicular) and rolled off the hand.

The ball should be charged for a full fourteen (14) hours before the first use. Always use one of our re-charge plugs. Never use a nine volt (9V) battery on the charge plug. The reason such a connector is being used is to keep the positive and negative sides of the circuit easily accessible to the visually impaired.

A simple rule for re-charging the ball is: if you use the ball for one (1) hour charge it for two (2) hours. Leaving the ball charging longer will not damage the ball, but not recommended on a consistent basis. The timing of the beep (slower) will also alert you that the ball needs re-charging.

Keep (as much as reasonably possible) foreign matter free from all the holes in the ball, especially water.

The plastic pin protruding from the ball is a plug which operates the sound module. To use the ball, simply remove the pin and the ball will start beeping. Insert the plastic plug when the ball is not in use.

If the ball should fail completely but the physical condition is still good, we will replace the beeping unit for twenty-one dollars ($21). Please do not dispose any unusable balls, please send them back to us. This helps us in determining where the common failures are and we look to ways of improving the ball. You can ship them to us “Free Material for the Blind”.

With reasonable care the ball should last a long time. The cost reflects the price of components to construct the ball. It takes a minimum of four (4) hours to construct a ball. All labor is volunteered by the Denver Beepball Group, Telecom Pioneers of America, a 501C3 charitable organization. With this much time and money invested, we sure don’t like to see a ball fail, but it happens, there are no guarantees. The ball is evolving as we are constantly looking to improve it. If you stop to think about it, it is a crazy idea to hit an electronic device with a baseball bat, we are doing it and getting better at it everyday. The Denver Beepball is the official ball of THE NATIONAL BEEP BASEBALL ASSOCIATION.

Please enjoy and have a fun time playing the wonderful game of Beep Baseball.

Beep Baseball is on ESPN.com

The video shot from the 2006 NBBA World Series is on ESPN.com. The video is a great presentation of the sport of beep baseball. It is full of action, interviews, and gives viewers a look into what it means to our athletes to play the game. Thank you to ESPN for giving the NBBA the opportunity to be seen on their forum.

View the video "Love at First Beep"