The wide smiles, the roaring laughter, the animated high-fives. They greet every gaze of the eyes and turn of the neck at the Beautiful Lives Project’s Field of Dreams event at Aurora Sports …
Participant Sterling Gaddie, 9, center, is welcomed onto the field under the arms of softball players at the Aurora Sports Park in Aurora, Colorado on July 3, 2024.
Beautiful Lives Project provides the uniquely abled an opportunity to participate in sports where they are often left out. Bryce Weiler, a co-founder of the nonprofit, is blind. Sports changed his life. Growing up in Claremont, Ill., he fell in love with basketball while listening to University of Illinois games on the radio. When he entered college at the University of Evansville, he found a coach in Marty Simmons who would let him sit on the team’s bench.
Sterling stopped before heading off to take a few cuts off the tee. He wanted to make a few things clear. Watch closely over the two-hour event, and you see something special happening. It goes well beyond softball. You see the connections. “I was focusing on the ball like the old baseball players used to do. Then I was wiggling the bat, keeping that memory of how I wanted to swing. Then boom!” Goolsby said, eyes widening as he recalled the hit. “It flew over everybody. It was like, ‘Oh God! I just did that.’ ”
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