ALLSUP AND THE ST. LOUIS BEEPBIRDS MEET AGAIN AT THE ULTIMATE ST. LOUIS  BEEPBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

After two weekends of playing beepball, Allsup took the title of Minds Eye Information Service Second Annual Beepball Champions for the second year in a row.  They will face the St. Louis Beepbirds, a team of blind and visually impaired players, in the Ultimate St. Louis Beepball Championship Sunday, June 29 at GCS Grizzlies Stadium in Sauget, Ill.  The first pitch is at 2:00 p.m.  This event is free and open to the   public.

Beepball, simply stated, is baseball for the blind and visually impaired.  Players must try to hit a beeping ball while blindfolded, then run to the base that is beeping before a fielder, also blindfolded, finds the   beeping ball.  This year, Allsup, Edward Jones, Lighthouse for the Blind and Friends of Minds Eye played against one another in a series of tournament games to determine who would challenge the St. Louis Beepbirds.  Allsup proved victorious, securing their spot in the Ultimate St. Louis Beepball Championship.

Minds Eye Information Service invites everyone to come out and experience beepball June 29.  Spectators will have a chance to enter a 50/50 drawing and purchase beepball merchandise.  New this year is “Bat for Bucks,” where spectators will have the opportunity to try hitting the beepball themselves for a small donation. 

The Ultimate St. Louis Beepball Tournament  is sponsored by Allsup, Edward Jones, Clarkson Eyecare, CBIZ Network Solutions, and the Belleville News Democrat.  All proceeds from this event will directly benefit Minds Eye Information Service.  

Minds Eye Information Service is a nonprofit radio reading service located on the grounds of the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows.  The closed circuit radio station lends radios free of charge to people who are blind, have low vision, or are print disabled so they can listen to broadcasts of volunteers reading   newspapers, magazines, books and retail circulars.  The service reaches nearly 1,100 people in their own homes and the residents of more than 80 nursing homes, retirement centers and hospitals in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.  For more information, call 314-241-3400,