Download Seeing Home: The Ed Lucas Story: A Blind Broadcaster's Story of Overcoming Life's Greatest Obstacles AudioBook Free
Soon to be a major motion picture, Experiencing Home: The Ed Lucas Account is the amazing true tale of an favorite Emmy-winning blind broadcaster who refused to let his impairment prevent him from conquering many challenging obstacles and attaining his dreams. In 1951, when he was only 12 years old, Ed Lucas was strike between the eyes by a football during a sandlot game in Jersey City. He lost his look forever. To cheer him up, his mother wrote words to football superstars of your day, detailing her son's condition. Soon Ed was asked to their clubhouses and dugouts, and the players and instructors individually made him feel at home. Regardless of the warm reception he acquired from his heroes, Ed was informed consistently by others that he would never have the ability to accomplish anything worthwhile because of his constraints. But Hall-of-Famer Phil Rizzuto became Ed's coach and inspired him to go after his interest - broadcasting. Ed then overcame hundreds of barriers, big and small, to become pioneer - the first blind person covering football frequently, a job he has successfully extended for six decades. Ed may have lost his look, but he never lost his faith, which acquired him through many pitfalls and dark days. When Ed's two sons were very young, his wife walked out and remaining him to raise them all by himself, which he have. Six years later, Ed's ex-wife went back and sued him for full guardianship, saying that a blind man shouldn't have her kids. The judge arranged, tearing Ed's sons away from their father's caring home. Ed fought the heartbreaking decision with appeals all the way up to the highest level of the court system. Eventually he prevailed, marking the very first time in US background that a disabled person was granted custody over a nondisabled spouse. Even in his later years, Ed is still enjoying a remarkably blessed life.
