Nisei Baseball

None by Lara Jones

Thursday, July 20, 10:07 a.m.

Kerry Yo Nakagawa on Diamonds in the Rough: Japanese Americans in Baseball, a photo exhibit at the City Library. Nakagawa is in town shooting a movie on the subject and he stops by Midday Metro to talk about how Japanese-American internees in the Topaz internment camp used baseball to prevail against the United States Government and its policy of detaining its own citizens during World War II. More details at the Nisei Baseball Research Project website.

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