Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope To The Japanese Internment Camps of WWII By Marissa Moss and Illustrated By Yuko Shimizu
Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope To The Japanese Internment Camps of WWII By Marissa Moss and Illustrated By Yuko Shimizu
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As a young boy in Hawaii, Kenichi "Zeni" Zenimura knew that he wanted to be a baseball player. Though his parents suggested other careers for him, Zeni kept playing baseball, and he grew up to be a successful player and manager, eventually playing in games with baseball legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
but after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni, his wife, and their two sons- along with 100,000 other American citizens of Japanese descent- were sent to the Gila River War Relocation Center, in an internment camp in Arizona. There they were imprisoned simply because of their ancestry. But Zeni did not allow the situation to overcome him. Instead, with his sons and friends, he built a baseball field that gave all the imprisoned a sense of pride and hope for the future.
The life of Kenichi Zenimura, who was later known as the father of Japanese American baseball, offers an inspiring true story from a little-discussed segment of American history.
Soft cover.
Learn more about remainder marks HERE
As a young boy in Hawaii, Kenichi "Zeni" Zenimura knew that he wanted to be a baseball player. Though his parents suggested other careers for him, Zeni kept playing baseball, and he grew up to be a successful player and manager, eventually playing in games with baseball legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
but after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni, his wife, and their two sons- along with 100,000 other American citizens of Japanese descent- were sent to the Gila River War Relocation Center, in an internment camp in Arizona. There they were imprisoned simply because of their ancestry. But Zeni did not allow the situation to overcome him. Instead, with his sons and friends, he built a baseball field that gave all the imprisoned a sense of pride and hope for the future.
The life of Kenichi Zenimura, who was later known as the father of Japanese American baseball, offers an inspiring true story from a little-discussed segment of American history.
Soft cover.