How a baseball coach made a teenager feel seen

NPR

Published March 24, 2026 at 3:19 PM CDT

Dan Roche, who was born with a cataract that left him mostly blind in one eye, was on a baseball team at age 15. On this week's "My Unsung Hero" from Hidden Brain, he shares a memory of his coach.

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