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Walk-up songs, big cheers and no strikeouts: Miracle Fields offer a new kind of baseball
The Murfreesboro league pairs players with volunteer buddies and uses a two-inning format to give children and adults with disabilities a place to play.
A player with Murfreesboro's Miracle League dances to his selected walk-up song as he comes up to bat.(Cynthia Abrams / WPLN)Saturday afternoon at McKnight Park in Murfreesboro feels like the hub of youth baseball: Little league games are underway in every direction, with parents dishing out Capri-Suns as kids run around in dirt-stained uniforms.While the park features 10 baseball diamonds, one field is a lot livelier than the rest. Players walk…