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Edward Lucas (born 1939) is an Emmy winning broadcaster, author, and motivational speaker. He has interviewed thousands of sports figures and celebrities over a career spanning seven decades. Lucas been inducted into three different Halls of Fame. ==Early life== On October 3, 1951, after watching the New York Giants defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League Pennant on a tiny little black and white TV, Ed Lucas, who was just twelve years old, went out to play baseball with his friends. He was struck in face by a line drive and subsequently lost his sight. Ed was depressed. He pictured himself as a helpless soul standing on a street corner with a cup and a cane selling pencils. His mother did two things that changed his life. First, she enrolled him in a revolutionary school for the blind run by nuns who believed that blind people could do anything they set out to do if they could just learn to be independent and have to self-confidence.〔Dotson, Bob (April 12, 2006). ("Baseball a field of dreams for blind reporter" ). ''Today''.〕 Second, she wrote letters to Leo Durocher, the manager of the NY Giants, and to Bobby Thomson, the home run hero, explaining what had happened to Ed, and how his love of baseball was the only thing lifting his spirits. Durocher invited Ed to be his guest at the Polo Grounds for the 1952 season. Yankees star Phil Rizzuto, who worked at a New Jersey clothing shop in the off season, heard about Ed’s story, and also befriended him.〔 This friendship lasted a lifetime, until Phil Rizzuto's death in 2007.〔http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2974097〕 After graduating from grammar school, Ed attended the New York Institute for the Blind where he organized a baseball club called the Diamond Dusters. Major League stars such as Jackie Robinson and Lindy McDaniel visited the school to talk baseball and to read the sports pages to the students.〔http://articles.philly.com/1988-05-05/news/26264046_1_lucas-files-radio-station-darryl-strawberry〕 Lucas enrolled in Seton Hall University, earning a degree in communications in 1962.〔Matthews, Jill (September 17, 2008). ("'As He Sees It' The Baseball Life of Ed Lucas" ). Seton Hall University.〕 He was one of the first blind students in the country to regularly attend classes with a Seeing Eye Dog. While at Seton Hall Ed started taking a reel-to-reel tape recorder to games to interview players. He had his own radio show, "Around the Bases With Ed Lucas" on WSOU, one of the premiere college radio stations in the United States.〔http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2416232/matchbin〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ed Lucas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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