The sights and sounds of the Nisei baseball experience are here for your viewing pleasure. These great video clips chronicle the events in which Japanese Americans played their own brand of baseball across the towns and cities of Northern California.
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| Footage of early Japanese American Baseball players displaying the fundamentals of the game they loved |
| Footage of how Japanese Americans learned the game and where the teams sprouted across Northern California |
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| Footage of the grit and gristle of how the Nisei bseball players played the game |
| The Nisei baseball players often played barnstorming games with professional ballplayers. In this clip the Japanese Americans get the best of their pro counterparts |
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| Despite the hardships of the internment camps the game of baseball continued amid the barbwire. Baseball proved to be a stabilizing force in a turbulent time |
| The Legacy of the Japanese American Baseball League lives on in the hearts and mind of the surviving members |
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| Road to Cooperstown |
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| Diamonds in the Rough - Zeni and the Legacy of Japanese-American Baseball with Host and Narrator - Pat Morita - Preview Clip |
| Ghosts of Baseball - from the July 4th, 1998 Fresno Grizzlies post game spectacular. |
Web Master - Jane McGinnis
Date Last Modified: 4/26/00
