Baseball in the Japanese internment camps

nanojath — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:54:25 -0800

Baseball behind barbed wire. Japanese-Americans brought baseball with them when they emigrated to America. The game had been introduced to Japan, so the story goes, by American Professor Horace Wilson in the 1870s. When Japanese nationals and Japanese-Americans were relocated to internment camps during World War II, playing baseball was one of the few freedoms allowed them by camp directors.

Independent producer/filmmaker, actor, researcher, and writer Kerry Yo Nakagawa founded the The Nisei Baseball Research Project to preserve the history of Japanese American Baseball; his research has resulted in several non-fiction books and American Pastime, a feature-length fictional treatment of the internment camp baseball story.

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:10:32 -0800

That and cross-scratching.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:15:17 -0800

It's as American as apple pie and internment camps.

By: empath

empath — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:33:19 -0800

And torture.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:34:28 -0800

Interesting stuff, thanks!

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Baseball in the Japanese internment camps

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