Shaking America
A podcast about stories in history that shook up the United States.
Shaking America
Baseball in the Japanese American Concentration Camps
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Zach Knight
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Season 1
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Episode 55
When over 120,000 Japanese Americans were unjustly imprisoned in concentration camps during WWII they brought the American sport of baseball with them.
Sources
America's Concentration Camps by Allan R. Bosworth
Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball by Kerry Yo Nakagawa
Kenichi Zenimura: Japanese American Baseball Pioneer by Bill Staples Jr