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World Series Hotel Reservations are now available to be made

Event: NBBA World Series
Dates: Sunday July 27 through Sunday August 3, 2008

Note: if you need to arrive or depart later then the dates above, please make note of that to the reservationist

Location: Marriott Greens Point, Houston, Texas

Room Rate: $79.00 plus tax
Tax: 17%
Deadline for making reservations with special room rate: TBA

Reservation Details:
When calling please refer to the Group Name of: NBBA
Indicate the Marriott Greens Point when asked for which hotel you wish to make your reservation for.

To make individual or team reservations, please contact:
Sarah Salinas
(281) 875-8991

Note: Sarah is only available during normal business hours.

When making your team or individual reservations, you must have the following:

If your making a team reservation, please indicate:
Indicate either one or two contacts for your group
How many rooms will you be needing
what room types will you be needing,
Doubles, kings,

For the Block of Rooms for your team, you must provide a credit card to hold them
Your rooming list will not be due until two (2) weeks prior to your arrival

If you are needing to make an individual reservation, please have your credit card available to reserve your room.

More information will follow, so please stay tuned

Additional information:
Houston Marriott® North at Greenspoint
255 N Sam Houston Pkwy East
Houston, Texas 77060 USA
Phone: (281) 875-4000
Marriott Greens Point Hotel

2008 Regional and World Series Info

For up-to-date information regarding any local Beep Baseball Tournaments, and the 2008 World Series, visit:
2008 Regional and World Series Info

The Qwest 2007 NBBA World Series Champs, Kansas All-Stars

The Kansas All-Stars finished out their perfect season of 18 wins and no losses with the defeat of the West Coast Dawgs. On Saturday, August 4, in Rochester Minnesota, at the Faud Mansour Soccer complex, under adverse and horrible weather conditions, the Kansas All-Stars defeated the West Coast Dawgs,
17 -4
Congratulations to all the Kansas All-Stars for their spectacular performance!

1st Place - Kansas All-Stars
2nd Place - West Coast Dawgs
3rd Place - Chicago Comets

If you would like further information visit the 2007 World Series Page.

Listen to The Beep Baseball Podcast with the NBBA 2007 World Series Championship game!

On Saturday, August 4, at the Qwest 2007 NBBA World Series, the Beep Baseball Podcast recorded the Championship game! Play-By-play announcer Kevin Sibson, and Color Commentators Wayne Sibson and the Beep Baseball Guy, Stephen Guerra, recorded this special broadcast! Despite the horrific weather conditions, Kevin, Wayne and Stephen provided first pitch to last out coverage and analysis of both teams!
Special Guests joined the crew and brought their observations to this day of beep baseball!
click here and download and listen to the Championship game of the NBBA 2007 World Series between the Kansas All-Stars and the west Coast Dawgs!

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"