Merle Caples has followed the Orioles for nearly 60 years — first with her eyes, and now with her ears. Caples, 95, is blind. Yet the Orioles remain her team, sight unseen.
“It doesn’t stop you from rooting for them,” she said of her disability. Caples listens to every game on the radio from her home in Ambler, Pa. She hangs on every pitch — and on every word of announcers Joe Angel and Jim Hunter.
Established in 1940, the National Federation of the Blind is celebrating its 40th year based in Baltimore. It’s the nation’s oldest and largest organization run by the blind, with about 50,000 members.
The club broached the NFB last winter about paying homage to the visually impaired, said Greg Bader, Orioles vice president of communications and marketing.
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