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Twenty-year-old Nourm Freyer is doing something he loves, thanks to the Miracle League of Northwest Ohio. Freyer and his teammates are beating the odds as they have a chance to experience America's past time.

Baseball is the counterclockwise sport of self-contained time. It is a game measured in innings, and not by a clock, and it is a game played in places where we can all be young again.

"And now the leadoff batter #21 Nourm Freyer," the announcer said this past Saturday as the crowd cheered. It's not every day you see a young man wheel to home plate, take a swing, and wheel to first base. Yet, for Nourm Freyer, being at Miracle Field is where he feels right at home.

"Its fun for me because I love sports, and I am a huge baseball fan," Freyer said.

Whether he is in the dugout, playing third base or at the plate, Freyer glows. It's a feeling that league commissioner Jack Marshall struggles to describe.

"You can't beat that," he says. "It causes you to well up every time."

With every swing of the bat, Nourm beams from ear to ear, and the feeling he gets is contagious.

"It is just so heart warming and strengthening for us to see," Marshall says.

Even though Nourm Freyer may not play the game of baseball like others, the passion is still the same.

"It makes me feel good," he says. "I'm just out here trying to have fun."

Just as one of Major Leagues best Johnny Vander Meer once said: "Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world, where you can catch them."