Turn on your TVs, because The Arc is on tonight!
When we told the media about our Father’s Group outing to the Phillies game last month, the producer of the CN8 show Out of Bounds, Tim Walton, contacted us. He said his team was unable to cover the event unfortunately, but was working on a Father Day’s segment about a father teaching his son to keep score at a baseball game, known around the diamond as “keeping the book.”
Tim was looking for a local father and son that fit the bill, and asked The Arc if anyone from the organization would like to participate in his story. We asked around, and found the perfect father-son duo: Bruce Cartwright and his 10-year-old son Steven.
Steven has Down syndrome. He has played on a challenger baseball team for three years. The two love baseball and the Phillies, and you can see them here together on the base paths.
The Out of Bounds crew filmed Bruce teaching Steven how to score a game, and captured what a day the ballpark really is about: the special feeling of sitting under the big lights, with the field stretched out below, the crowd cheering, the smell of hodogs and soft preztals in the air, and families being together.
The segment airs tonight at 7 on CN8, so tune in to check it out. If you miss it, we’re trying to get a clip to post to the blog soon.
Thanks, Tim, for sharing Bruce and Steven’s story with the community! And way to go, Bruce and Steven. You’re an inspiration to us all!
Happy Father’s Day!
