Beautiful Lives Project hosts game with St. Paul Saints, people with disabilities

CHS Field in St. Paul was the site of a baseball game for 50 people living with disabilities and the Saint Paul Saints on Tuesday.

It’s part of the Beautiful Lives Project which aims to create these types of experiences across the country.

It’s a nonprofit created by Bryce Weiler.

Weiler is blind and was given an opportunity to be part of the University of Evansville basketball team for four seasons. He says that experience changed his life.

Bruce now travels the country giving other people with disabilities an opportunity to experience sports like he did.

He teamed up with the St. Paul Saints on Tuesday to give 50 people the chance to learn how to play baseball.

In addition, Saints players and coaches learned about the abilities of people with disabilities.

Bruce hopes they created a lot of new friendships.

“Giving these individuals with disabilities the opportunity to be on a baseball field, some for the first time, some may not have been on a baseball field for a long time,” Weiler said. “Just giving them that opportunity, showing them there’s people in the world who want to help them overcome the obstacles and challenges that they face.

The Beautiful Lives Project creates immersive events with the goal of defeating isolation within the disabled community.

They also want to start conversation about the value of integrating people with disabilities into the workforce.

They believe that when people can stop focusing on disabilities and abilities, they will start to see what people are able to achieve and what they can offer to others.