A beeping ball and as Mark Strassmann describe in our cover story. Its the first lesson of baseball. Keep your eye on the ball. But what if you cant see the ball. Cant see anything. When youre on the field, tell me how you play. It seems very instinctive. My ears become my eyes. The beep baseball world series, it will open your eyes later on sunday morning. Osgood Bradley Cooper is an actor from philadelphia already made it big in hollywood. Now hes moving on to broadway and Serena Altschul will take us along. His movies have made more than 2 billion worldwide and earned him two oscar nominations. But for Bradley Cooper, this may be the most personal role yet. Thank you for coming. You seal a sense of responsibility . Very much so. This is a dream come true for you. Yeah. Its absolutely surreal. A life long journey bringing the elephant man to broadway. Ahead on sunday morning. Osgood a story from david martin about a strong and talented mothers love for her remarkable fallen son. Its hard to imagine two more different worlds than the marines and ballet. But not for amy wolfe whose son colin was killed in iraq. Are they really that different . Not at all. Marine corps, they are all together as one body fighting together. Ballet corps all dancing together as one body. Ahead on sunday morning. The ballet dancer who became a marine. Osgood a familiar friend from the classic tv series is launching, relaunching a different kind of show. So well be hearing an exchange ever questions and answers between lisa kudrow and lee cowan. I am sorry but im incredibly talented. Lisa kudrow made tv history once with friends. But now shes doing it again. Mellow, hello. Welcome to my trailer on the studio lot. Come on in. Her new show is an old show back on the air after nine years. Did you ever think youd come back all these years . No. Lisa kudrows come back and why shes so interested in headaches, ahead, on sunday morning. Osgood mo rocco hits the trail with candidate of mayor for providence. Steve hartman introduces to a boy hunting to collect a lifetime of sights. Marcia teichner looks at the color of mourning, the most liberal and most conservative towns in america. And more. First headlines this sunday morning the 2nd of november, 2014. Islamic state militants rounded up and shot and killed at least 50 people. Some of the dead are said to be women and children. Islamic Extremist Group boko haram more than 200 Nigerian School girls kidnapped some six girls have converted to islam have been married off. In california Virgin Galactic founder paid tribute to the test pilots involved in the crash of his testbased tourism rocket. One died and another was injured in fridays crash. Lava from the kilauea volcano has stalled from the main road. The lava flow has slowed the volcano is still active. And in south carolina, the first snow of the season there about two inches in areas around greenville. More fret tee than a problem but a sign of things to come. Now todays weather, cold and windy in the northeast. Cool, but sunny across the southeast. Snow and rain are expected across the mountain west. A cool start to the week in many areas but should warm up, enjoy it while you can. Ahead, we make friends with actress lisa kudrow. But first meet the allstars of beep baseball. ,,,,,,,, [ weep e beeping ] osgood it is called a beep baseball. Announces its location, speed and direction. With every beep. Allowing some very determined lovers of the game to play it by ear. Our cover story reported now by Mark Strassmann. You might think a 32yearold father of four playing in a Baseball League is just a guy trying to relive his youth. And in brandon chessers case, youd be right. Sports were brandons life as a kid growing up in texas. Little did he know then, sports would be what saved his life. It all started when he was eight. I was standing in right field during a baseball game and there was a ball hit and it was hit directly to me but i never knew it was out there. Everything beyond ten feet was a blur. I ended up crying in the dug out, i kept telling my mom, i cant see em. I cant see em. Brandon was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa a degenerative eye disease. Higs vision loss was gradual. In high school he could still read textbooks and even played varsity football. But by his early 20s, brandon could hardly see. Everybody past three feet was a kaleidoscope and everything between my nose and three feet were blurred shapes. Must have been hard to take. It was very hard. I couldnt compete on an athletic level any more. Or i felt that way. And i didnt know what to do with my life. I didnt know which direction to turn. But in 2006 life began looking up. He met his few fewer wife, pam. Shes also blind. And on their first date brandon told her about his childhood love of sports and she told him about the Austin Blackhawks and beep baseball. Amazing to watch. Imagine playing, unable to see anything. Some players have partial sight. Others none at all. They all wear blindfolds so that no one has an edge. But because everyone can hear, the ball and the bases all make a beeping sound. The blindfold goes on i make the transition. My ears become my eyes. Lupe was born blind. Think about it. He has never actually seen a baseball game. But perez started playing in 1990 and is now considered one of the sports alltime greats. What is your favorite part . Winning. Beep baseball began 40 years ago, a telephone engineer named charles bear banks created ball that beeps. Inside of this silicone structure is old telephone speaker and batteries with a beeper. Today more than two dozen teams compete in the u. S. , taiwan and Dominican Republic using rules adapted for blind athletes. There are only two bases, first and third. Each marked by a padded pylon. When a batter lets a fair ball a lab tomorrow beep tells him which base to run to f. He touches the base before a fielder gets hold of the beeping ball, its a run. If not its an out. In this game the pitcher, the only player who can sees on the same team as the batter. The pitcher calls get ready. And the batter listens for the beep and times the swing. Kevin same ton has pitched for the Austin Blackhawks for 29 years. Every since he found the the team with his brother, wayne, who was blind. What you do for them, what do they do for you . There was a synergy between the batter and the pitcher that is like nothing else in sport. There really is a trust relationship in all of this. Thats why we call ourselves a family. Because were closer than a team, we trust one another. We have faith in one another. For people say, thats nice. Blind people are playing a game. How competitive is this for people who have never seen it before . Youre talking about grown men and women playing a sport where they will do anything to get that championship title. Back in august, brandon and the blackhawks along with 19 other teams traveled to rochester, minnesota, for 39th annual beep baseball world series. The blackhawks swept their first five games. One more team to beat, an indianapolis power house, the rhi extreme. By the last inning, austin led 148. Get it. Wow. Brandon chesser caught the final out. The Austin Blackhawks saw themselves for who they were. World champions. For folks who watch this story is there a message from this team to the sighted who are all about possibility in all this. Dont let anybody ever tell you you cant do that and ive always been told, cant do. That now im a World Champion even though im blind. Osgood next, three cheers for cheerleaders. 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For that was the day football fan Johnny Campbell of the university of minnesota became americas first widely acknowledged cheerleader. Schools across the land followed campbells example and for the next quarter century americas cheer lead he is were exclusively men, honored men at that. The reputation of having been a valiant cheer leader is one of the most valuable things a boy can take away from college. The nation magazine wrote back in 1911. It ranks hardly second to that of having been a quarterback. In some cases, it proved a stepping stone for the presidency. Franklin roosevelt led cheers at harvard. As did Dwight Eisenhower at west point. Ronald reagan at Eureka College in illinois. And george w. Bush at yale. Of course women have long since joined the cheerleading ranks including meryl streep, madonna Even Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Bader ginsburg, among many others. Not always been fun and games. In 1991, Wanda Webb Holloway made unsuccessful lot to murder the mother of the girl who in junior high cheerleading ud squad. Case inspired hbo movie with holly hunter in the starring role. I dont know, 20,000. Cheerleading has goodnatured kidding. As with will ferrell and cheri oteri on saturday night live. Today cheerleading goes far beyond anything Johnny Campbell could imagine. Still his alma mater honors him incorporating part of his cheer, the fight song. Osgood coming up. Dressed in black. Take a closer look at your fidelity green line and youll see just how much it has to offer, especially if youre thinking of moving an old 401 k to a fidelity ira. It gives you a wide range of investment options. And the free help you need to make sure your investments fit your goals and what youre really investing for. Tap into the full power of your fidelity green line. Call today and well make it easy to move that old 401 k to a fidelity rollover ira. 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Com this is humira at work osgood a blessing quite sublime. While we slept the clocks fell back were now on standard time. Osgood the widow wore black. Wasnt always a matter of choice, once upon a time it was mandatory. Martha teichner takes us back to an expression of grief was also a fashion statement. It was halloween, but a strange phenomenon was over taking new Yorks Metropolitan Museum lately. Im a fashionista in every era. People keep showing up as if they have lost their nearest and dearest. A century and a half ago. Here people are born in the wrong century. They dress up like this, but imagine wearing nothing but black head to toe for years. What the welldressed mourner wore in that era is the subject of the mets look at mourning attire between 1815 and 1915. Would have been worn during a period of deep mourning. The first stage. Deep mourning. Jessica regan is a curator of the met show. Its covered completely in mourning crepe which has a very distinctly crinkled, almost pebbled surface and its finished with a starch. Its rather stiff. And dull black, crape, that is craape is what a respectable american or european widow was expected to wrap herself in during victorian times. There was an expectation at least in the first stages of mourning that one would wear the veil over the face. That was year one. In year two a little was permissible. But wait, there was more. An additional six months of socalled halfmourning, a hint of white or color was okay. Men by comparison had it easy. Suggested only a period of three months mourning nor a widower, black suit that men wore anyway was already fairly appropriate for mourning attire. He can simply add a crape band around his top hat. Dressing simply in black for mourning like a nun, actually, goes back to the middle ages. Queen victorias approach to mourning overkill, so to speak. She wore black for 40 years after her husband died. But what the royals did trickled down to the middle class. How . Fashion magazines. From the late 18th and early 19th centuries, fashion magazines emerged and they really offered much more detailed information for a much broader spectrum of society of the latest fashions, that included mourning fashions. In major cities, there were whole department stores, warehouses devoted to fashionable mourning wear. Like todays wedding salons. But mourning was about more than clothes. Go on forever. You can do without it. In gone with the wind scarlet ohara, courted scandal for dancing. World war 1 changed the rules. There were so many men who were lost in that conflict that the idea of massive mourning was just too much to contemplate. Mary davis is dean of graduate studies at the Fashion Institute of technology in new york city. Look at emily post writings in the 1920s, there arent the compare sieve to hide your face. Its a much lightened up version. By the 1920s. Fashion designers, notably coco chanel had repurposed widows as the little black dress. Fabulously unfuneraleal in breakfast at tiffanys. And yet think of Jackie Kennedy at jfks funeral. The black suit, the crape vail. If you look ahead to princess dianas funeral in 1997, Prince Charles showed up to that event wearing Navy Blue Suit rather than black because as he says, it was her favorite suit. Its still common to wear black. But thats not necessary. Whats more important is to be neat and pressed and dignified and to respect the memory of the person who is lost. White is the traditional color of mourning in china, india and japan. But with halloween still in mind, we thought wed return to the metropolitan museum to descend into the gloom and celebrate basic black. Osgood still to come. Lisa kudrow on life after friends. I was with five other people who became famous and it was kind of harrowing. Osgood later, in honor of color. ,,,,,, wait. Im getting a deja vu. No, im not. All right. We have to talk. There it is. Its sunday morning on cbs. And here again is Charles Osgood. Osgood lisa kudrow had millions of fans on the long running Television Show friends. What is she up to these days . Lee cowan with a round of questions and answers. Were you glad that it ended when it ended, friends . No. No . No. You wanted it to go on longer. Yeah, i could have. We were making a lot of money, too, by the way. Theres that. Where did he get him . My friend bethel rescued him from some lab. That is so cruel. Whyy would a parent name their child bethel . For ten years, lisa kudrows Phoebe Buffay and five famous friends blended as smoothly as the coffee at central perk. Smelly cat, what are they feeding you everybody the final episode of friends was the fourth most watched Series Finale in history. I guess this is it. When it ended left kudrow wondering how do you top a show that became a cultural phenomenon. Certainly not doing another sitcom. I just did friends im going to try to tell the world ive got something else. No. Thats not going to happen. Thats just an impossibility. Unlike her costars, many went to romantic comedy route. Kudrow chose roles a little more off beat. This is my come back. Im going to tape that again. The first role was valley cherish fading sitcom star with the reality show just to get back in the limelight. So desperate for a comeback they have cameras fall them around all day. Only lasted one sees glob hello, hello. Welcome to my trailer on the studio lot. Come on in. Now, nine years later, hbo making series about a neurotic older sitcom actress. What . Hbo is giving the come back a comeback. You have to hold the record i think for longest amount of time between season one and two. I think so. Something to be proud of. The often biting critique and high wattage tendency toe exploit those willing to do anything for fame. One of my fears back then, i dont know how people are going to survive it. I was with five other people who became fall famous it was kind of harrowing. You were starting to explore back then kind of came true. Absolutely came true. And worked. No privacy. Anything goes. Very intimate, personal things about a family and a marriage. That thats entertain. Her social commentary hasnt stopped there. Youre muted now so i cant hear you because the section has ended. Kudrow also takes aim at the internet in web therapy now on showtime. I was getting the impression last couple of sessions that i was boring you and i have enough of an inner intellectual life to keep interested in anything that eastbound you could be saying. She plays the dubiously credentialed doctor who figures age of social media threeminute web chat can pass for psychotherapy. I i have done the 90 minute sections with people but they end up going on and on about dreams and feelings and memories and past experience, is that add up to a whole lot of noth