NEWS> Baseball Umpires Are Often Accused of Being Blind: This Sportswriter is Legally Blind

From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:30:00 -0500

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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:12:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

A sportswriter who covers the Cincinnati professional baseball beat found
that his vision had become severely impaired in January.  He is still on
the job covering the Cincinnati Redlegs baseball team.

Blindness brings out best in McCoy, those around him
By Tom Archdeacon
Dayton Daily News
<http://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/content/
sports/reds/daily/0427archhal.html>

CINCINNATI | If you read Hal McCoy in Friday morning's Dayton Daily News,
you learned about some of the Cincinnati Reds' best efforts the night
before when they edged the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3-2, in extra innings:

There were the two big plays of Reds' transportable outfielder Jose
Guillen. Playing right, he threw out the Dodgers' Brian Jordan at the
plate in the sixth inning. Moved to left, he crashed into the wall making
a run-saving catch in the 10th. And then there was the game-winning hit to
right by Reggie Taylor in the 11th.

Yet, if you really wanted the big league play of the game  the night's
truly clutch performance  you had to turn your attention from the field at
Great American Ball Park to the press box .

That's where you found McCoy, sitting in his front-row seat where the
usual game props that surround him  his cell phone, media guides and those
Dominican-rolled Padron Executive cigars he chews  now include a
flashlight, big-print computer screen, an over-size, easy-to-write-in
score book and a much-used magnifying glass.

Although the general rule of thumb in the newspaper business is to report
the story, not become it, McCoy's own showing Thursday eclipsed anything
about which he wrote. All those outfield plays he put to prose  he didn't
fully see a one of them.

That's because Hal McCoy is now legally blind.

<snip>

"January 23rd  I'll never forget the date," he said. "I woke up in the
morning, started down the stairs, and everything was blurry and fuzzy. I
opened the newspaper at the table and couldn't read it. The lines ran
together, the words ran together. Total panic set in. If I couldn't read,
I couldn't work.

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