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Twenty Thousand Hertz

CHAPTER

The History of Beet Baseball

Beep baseball was created in the mid sixties when a telephone engineer designed the first beeping baseball. Players wear blindfolds or black eye shades, so that anyone with partial vision doesn't have an unfair advantage. In beet baseball there are only two bases, first base and third base. Rather than flat squares, the bases are padded cylinders that stand about four feet tall. The batter doesn't know which base is going to buzz until they've hit the ball. While the batter is running toward the buzzing base, the defensive players race to get hold of the ball.

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