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Ichiro Suzuki is easily the most accomplished Japanese baseball player to ever compete in Major League Baseball. The Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the …
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How well do you know your own family? Specifically, your extended family: uncles, aunts, cousins, second cousins, great aunts, etc. Maybe it is because I …
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Travis Takashi Ishikawa of the San Francisco Giants recently made a lot of Japanese North Americans feel proud when he said: “I never give up …
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Everybody loves a good sports story and baseball ones seems to possess certain narrative qualities that help it to reach mythological proportions. Even as I …
Lorene is my first name. My mother chose my name for me. She liked the sound of the name, but not its typical spelling “Laureen” …
In a previous article, I highlighted the fact that the Dodgers and the Giants had three Japanese Americans on their rosters (Darwin Barney and Brandon …
Sitting in the upper deck overlooking right field at AT&T Park in San Francisco for the first game of the Dodgers-Giants series in September, I …
“The stories I heard were compelling and vivid,” Samuel O. Regalado says. The historian and author of Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and …
Read Part 1 >> “BASEBALL SAVED US” The coming of World War II brought upheaval to the Japanese American community. On the mainland, all West …
Sport has played a major role in the life of Japanese American communities from the first establishment of those communities in the late nineteenth century …
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