Japanese Americans play historic baseball games at prison camp to recall a pastime — and a lifeline
The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII ...
As Shohei Ohtani takes center stage, remembering baseball at Manzanar prison camp
An amateur game at Manzanar to commemorate Japanese American internment during WWII coincided with the World Series opening ...
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Return to Manzanar
Every year on the last Saturday of April, Japanese-Americans who were incarcerated congregate with family and other supporters at Manzanar National Historic Site for a day of remembrance, but as the ...
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The Manzanar Controversy
"Manzanar In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers by executive order NO. 9066, issued on February 19, 1942. Manzanar, the first ...
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An LA artist is rebuilding the baseball field at a former incarceration camp for Japanese Americans
A new project is now putting the finishing touches on something that the site's managers hope will bring more healing: the rebuilding of Manzanar's baseball field. “The baseball field was a part ...
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In an Internment Camp, All They Had Was Baseball. A New Generation Is Back to Play.
As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in Manzanar for the first baseball games in the internment camp since World War II. As Shohei Ohtani played in ...
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Letters to the Editor: Manzanar is a 'sobering reminder of what our country is capable of doing to its own citizens'
To the editor: Your article on baseball at the Manzanar prison camp in California's Owens Valley did a huge disservice by describing the site as not much more than "a few old barracks, a weathered ...
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Japanese Americans reclaim power with historic baseball game at Manzanar prison camp
MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed baseball field was 23-year-old Logan Morita. As the crowd fell quiet, he thought of a great-uncle, Jimmy Masatoshi Morita ...
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Japanese American internment camp site plays ball
For the first time since World War II, Japanese Americans gathered at the site of the former Manzanar internment camp to play ...
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'The ghost of Manzanar': Japanese WW2 internee's body found in US
Giichi Matsumura and his family were detained in Manzanar internment camp during World War Two A skeleton found in California last October has been identified as a Japanese-American artist who was ...
Mayor of Jackson, Miss., Is Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges
Baseball In an Internment Camp: As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in ...
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As Shohei Ohtani takes center stage, remembering baseball at World War II’s Manzanar prison camp
As millions cheered Shohei Ohtani’s debut in the World Series at Dodger Stadium, a couple of dozen ballplayers of Japanese ...