Seeing home the Ed Lucas story : a blind broadcaster's story of overcoming life's greatest obstacles
2017
DAISY Sound Recording
A blind baseball broadcaster tells his personal and professional story. Lucas lost his sight in an accident in 1951 at age twelve. His love of baseball led him to a career broadcasting games and interviewing players. His love of his children led him to fight for custody after his wife left. 2015.
Item Details
Edition: Daisy edition.
Description:
- 1 DAISY disc (audio (9 hours, 18 minutes)) : sound ; 12 cm
- 4 3/4 in.
- digital DAISY
- audio file Daisy
Target Audience Note: Male narrator. NLS/BPH
Notes:
- Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials.
- Narrated by: Bill Wallace.
- Digital talking book. 1 level and 18 navigation points. Digitally mastered.
- Recorded from: First Gallery Books hardcover edition. New York : Jeter Publishing, [2015] 9781476785837.
- System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software.
- DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps.
- 2015 Ed Lucas and Christopher Lucas
Contents:
- Introduction: everyone should be so lucky
- No cup or cane
- Not a handicap, just an inconvenience
- Pick up your oar and start rowing!
- Baseball took my sight and gave me my life
- Hey, buddy, is that one of those sight-seeing dogs?
- Don't listen to the naysayers, kid!
- Cold cuts and hot feet: my life in the clubhouse
- Not above you, not beneath you, but with you
- I refuse to believe that justice is blind
- Does home plate look like a dinner plate?
- Bride of the Yankees.
LCCN: 2016992741
Control Number: 3175066
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2017.