Category: Hearing Loss in Athletes

The Pride of Baseball

Robert Traynor Audiology / Baseball outfielders / Deaf Baseball Players / Deafness / Deafness and Sport / Famous Deaf individuals / Hearing loss / Hearing Loss in Athletes / Immunizations and hearing loss / Lip Reading / Measles Hearing Loss / Teamwork - Deafness

1968 saw a number of terrible things such as the assassinations of Martin Luther King in April and Robert Kennedy in June, the disruption of the  Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, and other problem. But it was a special year for John and Sally Pride as they were expecting their first child. There…

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You Can’t Lick a Team That Won’t Be Licked

Robert Traynor American Football / American History / Audiology / Communication skills / Competence / Deaf Baseball Players / Deafness / Deafness and American Football / Deafness and Sport / Famous Deaf individuals / Football / Hearing Impaired Athletes / Hearing Impaired Olympians / Hearing impairment / Hearing loss / Hearing Loss in Athletes / individualism / Leadership / Stigma

Remember the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire, the story of the 1924 Olympic track team? While Mike Murphy wasn’t a member or a coach of the famous 1924 team that won 32 medals in the Summer Olympics in Paris, the team owes its legacy to him. Murphy (1860-1913) was a sprinter, one of the first football…

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