Ted Y. Furumoto,Douglas W. Jackson's More Than a Baseball Team: The Saga of the Vancouver Asahi PDF

By Ted Y. Furumoto,Douglas W. Jackson

This booklet is a translation of a eastern language non-fiction paintings approximately Canada’s first Japanese-Canadian championship baseball crew, the Vancouver Asahi, energetic from 1914 to 1941 (Toho Shobo, 2009).
The historical past of the Vancouver Asahi can be a historical past of the Japanese-Canadian immigrant event. The group was once part of the expansion of Little Tokyo in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The Asahi dynasty used to be unexpectedly dropped at a halt whilst the gamers, in addition to the remainder of the japanese group, have been relocated to internment camps after Pearl Harbor. staff participants, even though separated, nonetheless performed baseball by means of organizing groups within the camps. ultimately, the Mounties, who have been the camp guards, turned fans.
After the battle, Japanese-Canadians have been avoided from returning to their houses at the west coast, and given a call of dwelling at the east coast of Canada or being deported to Japan. although the crew by no means revived, they have been commemorated belatedly via induction into the Canadian Baseball corridor of Fame.
the tale of the Asahi is one in all desire and perseverance within the face of adversity and racial prejudice. it's a tale approximately younger males taking part in for the affection of the sport, instilling satisfaction not only of their group, yet in all of Canada as well.

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