Special needs players get a team of their own in Northbrook abobaseball
Sharp and athletic in his red jersey and gray, ankle-length baseball pants, the 20-year-old New Trier graduate rounded the base and kept on going.That is the name of the game for Alternative Baseball, a Georgia-based organization with a Northbrook affiliate led by Jackson Berner of Glenview.
It's"a community integration of those with disabilities through our pastime," said Duncan, 27, who never forgot being benched first in baseball and then in slowpitch softball as a perceived injury risk or simply because he was autistic. Not all players attend all the time. Berner's mother, Beth Engelman, a special-education teacher at Glenview's Hoffman School who signed on as co-manager because her son is not yet 18, said around 20 players have shown interest this summer.
Berner also is hopeful some players can attend Duncan's annual ABO and Pros contest Oct. 21 at Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia. Prefaced by a celebrity exhibition, advanced ABO players will play a group of former Major League ballplayers.
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