There's a world series that's unlike anything you've ever seen. The balls beep. The bases buzz. The pitchers are on the same team as the hitters. Reporter Alex Helmick has the story of the Chicago Comets, a team made up of blind players. It's a team that's truly in a league of its own.

Watch the Comets at Fielding Practice

This World Series is unlike anything you've ever seen: The balls beep. The bases buzz. The pitchers are on the same team as the hitters. It's the National Beep Baseball Association World Series.

Baseball players and the wind don't often get along. And on a 79-degree day in a ballpark on Chicago's southwest side, it's windy, very windy. That kind of wind can be dangerous to these ball players. They're blind and they rely on sound to tell them where the ball and bases are.

When it's windy, the beeping and buzzing can get thrown in all different directions, confusing the players. But at today's practice the players will make due. Wally Mozdzierz is standing at home plate, bat in hand.

Wally hits a hard ground ball to right field. A sighted spotter tells the players on defense where the ball is going. Two players hunch over, focusing on the sound of the beeping ball. They move quickly toward the beeps, then one dives on the ground and blocks the ball with his body. If the runner gets to the base before the fielder gets the ball he scores a run for his team. If not, he's out.

Wally makes it to the base in about 6 seconds. It's a hundred feet away.

"I love playing beep ball," Wally says. "I live for it. It's pretty cool."

Wally's wearing cleats and a jersey and baseball pants that are ripped on both knees. He has retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that slowly takes away his vision. He's had the disease for years. Now middle aged, his sight is all but gone. All the players are legally blind … but some can see better than others, so all of them wear blindfolds to equal the playing field.

"This is the ultimate in competition, man. It's more than just baseball. It's more like baseball with a little football mixed in," Wally adds.

The game is so physical that nearly the entire team wears pads: kneepads, elbow pads, hip pads. Without them they wouldn't last a day. This sport is a mix of baseball and football.

And Warren Richadrson knows all about football. "I love the game. I get a chance to stay in shape for an older man."

Thirty-seven-year-old Warren is in shape. His muscles bulge through his jersey. He could see when he was a kid, but he lost his vision after hitting his head in a street football game. He wasn't supposed to be playing rough sports because he had cataracts in his eyes. The hit spurred his blindness at 13. Now beep baseball that gives Warren that feeling of being an athlete. It's also a great release from a stressful job.

"As ironic as it is, I'm a attorney in traffic court. I do DUIs, class-A misdemeanors in traffic court… A blind guy in traffic court?" he laughs. "Our office has a sense of humor.

"I had a couple of colleagues come out and they said, 'OK. We'll come out for one game.' And the next thing you know, it was four hours later. They stayed for two games because most people who end up seeing the game, they really enjoy watching it and find it amazing.

But as amazing as it may be, there are some strict crowd rules. Terry Smolka is a sighted volunteer and her husband plays on the Comets. When she's at games Terry wants to roar with excitement when the Comets hit the ball. But fans have to be silent until the play is completely over so the players can hear the ball, the bases and the sighted spotters.

"I used to beep the horn when they would come in. And I'm like-op!-I can't do that. I gotta be quiet. I'm like oh," she said.

The Chicago Comets have played in four grueling tournaments this year. They travel across the country and need about $1500 a season to get players from tournament to tournament. Games are six innings and teams could play up to five games in two days.

The league has been up and running since 1995, but some of these guys were playing some form of this game before then. The beep softball was invented decades ago. Mike McGlashon's been playing for 19 years. He's been blind since birth and used to travel from New York to Chicago just to play for the Comets.

"I've been playing a long time and so it's not new," he said. "But the appreciation for it is still there... I still like to do the mechanic things that make us better players. But the young guys, you know, watching them play and do their thing and enjoy it like I was when I first started, that's what's worth it to me."