Baseball in the Japanese American Concentration Camps

A baseball game held at the Tule Lake Relocation Center

When over 120,000 Japanese Americans were unjustly imprisoned in concentration camps during WWII they brought the American sport of baseball with them.

The Tule Lake League Champions

A child inmate gets ready for Little League

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