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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Remembrance of Those Who Played Baseball in an Overtly Segregated Society: Can We Learn from the Past?By addictThis is a very interesting view of Japanese American baseball in California. With threads of separatism and cultural ties, it is a story filled with angst and fond memories.The story line is similar to the African American/Negro baseball teams and yet it resonates because my father played in the Japanese American baseball leagues. When my father passed, a friend of mine in Los Angeles called to express his sympathy. He had read that my dad, who was a switch hitter, had passed in a sports column for Japanese American in SoCal.My dad was an avid baseball watcher on television and loved those Friday night fights. He loved to talk about his relocation experience with those of his youth days at annual Japanese American picnics held in our small Central California town.I am enamored of this book and the story it tells because it is a part of my family's experience. Not until I was an adult did I learn fully about my father's interest in sports and what "camp" meant.

Four generations of Japanese Americans broke down racial and cultural barriers in California by playing baseball. Behind the barbed wire of concentration camps during World War II, baseball became a tonic of spiritual renewal for disenfranchised Japanese Americans who played America's pastime while illegally imprisoned. Later, it helped heal resettlement wounds in Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Central Valley and elsewhere. Today, the names of Japanese American ballplayers still resonate as their legacy continues. Mike Lum was the first Japanese American player in the Major Leagues in 1967, Lenn Sakata the first in the in 1983 and Don Wakamatsu the first manager in 2008. Join Kerry Yo Nakagawa in this update of his 2001 classic as he chronicles sporting achievements that doubled as cultural benchmarks.

About the AuthorWhile coaching his son's little league team in Fresno, California, Kerry Yo Nakagawa was inspired to preserve the legacy of Japanese American baseball and culture for future generations, and that evolved into a full- time non-profit project, the Nisei Baseball Research Project (NBRP), and the previous version of this updated book. The NBRP exhibit Diamonds in the Rough" has been shown in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, and the Japan Baseball Hall of Fame in Tokyo. In twenty major league seasons, Fresno, California native Tom Seaver won 311 games, struck 3, 640 batters and compiled an earned average of 2.86. He won the Rookie of the Year Award in 1967 and three Cy Young Awards (1969, 1973 and 1975), all with the . He was 25, 7 for the '69 World Series-winning "Amazin' Mets." He also pitched for the , and Boston Red Sox, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992. An actor of Japanese American ancestry born in 1932 in Isleton, California, Pat Morita's formative years were spent in a World War II, era internment camp. He was the first American of Asian descent to be nominated for an acting Academy Award, for his performance as Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" (1984). He was a regular on the television series "Sanford and Son, " "Happy Days, " "Ohara" and other shows. He wrote the preface for the original 2001 edition of this book. Morita passed away in 2005."

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