Watch that second baseman; he’s got great ears

Via Ains­ley Drew over at Kot­tke, behold, beep baseball:

This is com­pletely sub­lime. The Doppler-shifted whine of the ball as it’s thrown! The mad scram­ble to find it on the ground! The run­ning col­li­sion with the stand-up base!

So: 1. I totally want to play. 2. Are there any other sports or games that ask us to use our ears? Seems like they all hap­pen pretty exclu­sively in the visual/tactile domain.

Hmm. Taste­ball, anyone?

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Saheli says:
October 2, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Wow, that made me tear up a little.
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Jeff Milner says:
October 2, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Check out goal­ball. I played it once when I was a teenager. The guy that taught it to us was com­pletely blind.
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Matt says:
October 3, 2009 at 6:47 am
There’s also blind cricket and blind golf, among oth­ers.
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