Hi. Just got back from vacation on the Cape and finished up a column on The Miracle League for The Journal News and LoHud.com tomorrow.

For those unfamiliar, this is a league popping up all over the country for disabled kids. It’s not Special Olympics or anything like that. This is a baseball league for kids who really can’t do much, who need “buddies”—volunteers assigned to each kid, to help them swing the bat and help them get around the bases whether in a wheelchair or with a walker or any other device.

They play on a rubber field paid for entirely by Westchester County—believed to be the first government to get involved in Miracle League; most are privately funded, some by major-league baseball teams.

The column is about how Steve Madey, who has worked his entire life with the disabled, and who was the commissioner of the Westchester-Rockland Wood Bat league (and is a high school/college umpire) learned about the Miracle League in Atlanta. He approached a player in his league, Marty Rogowsky, who is the majority leader in the Westchester legislature. They took it to the County Parks Department and Joe Stout and Peter Neglia. They took it to County Executive Andrew Spano. Within a four-minute video presentation, Spano gave it a thumbs-up

Within nine months, the $525,000 field in Hartsdale was completed.

Now they all tell about how tears well up in their eyes when they go to games. I spoke to them, and to some of the board members, and to some parents, and it truly is a wonderful thing, this league.

To see the field, check out the Web site mlwny.org. We will also have video on RNN, and on LoHud.com. To help, contact Madey at smadey@optonline.net. The next big fund raiser is a Nov. 3 black-tie dinner at the Rye Town Hilton, a reasonable $250 a plate.