Alternative Baseball

Alternative Baseball was founded in 2016 by Taylor Duncan, an autism activist from Dallas, Georgia, who was denied opportunities to play traditional baseball as a youth and faced social stigma from coaches.[1][2]

Alternative Baseball uses the same rule-set as seen in Major League Baseball. The only adaption made in Alternative Baseball is the type of ball used: A baseball sized slightly larger and much softer than a regulation-sized baseball in order to safely accommodate players of all skill and experience levels from novice to professional.[1]

Alternative Baseball encourages locals to volunteer and assist with establishing new programs to serve those in their individual areas.[3][4] The organization started expanding across the United States in 2018[5] after finding a serious lack of programming geared for adults with disabilities to continue their enrichment toward successful independence post-high school graduation.[6] Alternative Baseball currently has programs (and new ones starting up) in Alabama,[7] Arizona,[8] Colorado,[9] Florida,[10] Georgia,[11] Illinois, New Jersey,[12] North Carolina,[13] South Carolina,[14] Tennessee,[15] Texas, and Washington[5] with many more clubs and programs to be started across the country. Registration in Canada is also currently pending.[16]

• Autism rights movement
• Amateur baseball in the United States
• Disabled sports
• International Paralympic Committee