OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) -Just north of Omaha, inside a barn-turned-batting cage, many of the state’s best hitters go to learn from Mark Wetzel.

“He’s the best hitting coach I’ve ever had,” Fort Calhoun junior Tacey Belina declared.

“He’s a great coach,” added Hannah Winans, a junior at Papillion-La Vista South. “He knows exactly what he’s doing.”

“The results speak for themselves,” said Gretna senior Trip Johnson.

With such a keen vision for the game, you’d never know Mark can barely see at all.

“I’m legally blind,” he said. “I have macular degeneration of the retina.”

Wetzel grew up obsessed with baseball, with hopes of becoming the next Mickey Mantle. But his condition forced him to quit the game when he was 14.

“I think at first I was pretty upset, you know, couldn’t play ball anymore

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