DuPage County and the City of Aurora under the direction of DuPage Sports Commission, the Aurora Area Sports Alliance and the National Beep Baseball Association (NBBA) is hosting the NBBA’s 50th Annual World Series of Beep Baseball.
The 2026 World Series will be held August 2-8 at the Stuart Sports Complex, 39W585 Jericho Rd., Aurora.
Since its founding in March 1976 in Chicago, the NBBA has been providing the opportunity for those who are blind and visually impaired to enjoy the benefits of physical activity and real athletic competition. Over the decades Lions Club members across the country and also in other parts of the world have done and do their part to make this possible.
This World Series will mark the third time this event will be held in Illinois. Chicago hosted the Series in 1990, and Glenview was the host city in 2002. Illinois has a rich and impressive history featuring many great teams, Hall of Fame players and the 2003 NBBA Champion Chicago Comets.
Lions hold dear efforts in helping those who are blind and visually impaired going back to when Hellen Keller made her famous appeal to Lions to be the “knights of the blind” in Sandusky, Ohio in 1925.
Beep Baseball provides a special way by which Lions can serve in a variety of roles as both volunteers and/or as sponsors of the World Series of Beep Baseball. Lions and Leos of all ages will find this service opportunity to be very enjoyable, rewarding, and inspirational.
—District 1J Lions Clubs International