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Tanner Gers - Pro Athlete, Speaker #GoalGetter Not letting obstacles get in the way! @TannerGers

Tanner Gers

  I met Tanner online in one of the Facebook groups I frequent. Tanner, like me, is a motivational speaker and podcaster. I heard Tanner’s story on several podcasts and I was impressed and inspired by Tanner’s ability to overcome the obstacles put in front of him.

After hearing Tanner’s story, I wanted to interview him for Goal Getting Podcast so you could hear him, learn from him…

Review: Love Comes Home (Senses #3) by Andrew Grey

Rating: 4 stars out of 5

Architect Gregory Hampton’s son, Davey, is playing in a Little League softball game and having difficulties with pitching and hitting where he had none before.  Then a stranger approaches Gregory with a startling suggestion…that Greg should take Davy to an eye doctor for an examination. The diagnosis is frightening. Davey has a genetic occular disease that has just kicked…

I just came across this via The Daily What, and it reminded me of this, a story I wrote during a newspaper internship at the Durham Herald-Sun in North Carolina. 

Here's an excerpt. 

Though he couldn't see it, Keith Edgerton was ready for the ball that came whizzing into left field and landed, beeping, a few feet ahead of him. Or at least he thought that was where it landed. He scrambled for a moment, groping in the direction of the muffled beeping until he found it, grabbed it and held it high. 

"Out!" 

The umpire signaled the save, according the rules of Beep Ball, and the Durham Sluggers 

Beep Ball team was one step closer to their 9-0 victory over the Triad team in the first game of the North/South Carolina Beep Ball Tournament at Herndon Park on Friday.

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This game of baseball for the blind was created by telephone engineer Charley Fairbanks in 1964 when he put a circuit and a telephone speaker in a softball and other sound units in traffic cone-like bases.