The National Beep Baseball Association NBBA was organized in 1976 for visually impaired adults to play baseball. Each year the NBBA coordinates local, state, and regional tournaments, not least among them the Indy Invitational in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Bolingbrook Beep Ball Bash (one of the first tournaments to offer a cash award) outside Chicago, Illinois, and in some cases a round robin tournament in Columbus, Ohio, and, more recently, a round robin tournament in the Philadelphia area. In August of each year the NBBA sponsors a national and international invitational tournament. The 2007 World Series, as the August invitational is known, was held, for the first time in memory, in a city which boasts no beep baseball team, namely, Rochester, Minnesota. More recently, the World Series has been held in Columbus, Ohio in 2004, Houston, Texas in 2005, and in Cleveland, Ohio in 2006. The World Series was held in Taiwan in 2000.
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