Baseball is one of the safest sports, but don't set your child up to fail or get injured. If your child has very poor eyesight or poor depth perception, baseball might actually be dangerous.

If your young ballplayer can't see well enough to duck out of the way of a wild pitch or a line drive, he could get hurt. Try track, swimming, wrestling, or any of the sports that use a large, slow-moving ball: soccer, basketball, or volleyball.

If your child has a hearing loss and wears a hearing aid, he or she should have no problem playing baseball. If your child is totally deaf, he or she should still be able to play baseball. It would help the coaches if the deaf ballplayer were trained as an "oralist" (lip-reader)

There have been one-armed baseball players and even one-armed pitchers. During World War II some played in the major leagues.