As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in Manzanar for the first baseball games in the internment camp since World War II. As Shohei Ohtani played in ...
MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed baseball field was 23-year-old Logan Morita. As the crowd fell quiet, he thought of a great-uncle, Jimmy Masatoshi Morita ...
Japanese Americans returned to Manzanar National Historic Site over the weekend for a landmark event — the first baseball games played there since World War II. The site is where the former Manzanar ...
To the editor: Your article on baseball at the Manzanar prison camp in California's Owens Valley did a huge disservice by describing the site as not much more than "a few old barracks, a weathered ...
MANZANAR, Calif. — Swinging at the first pitch on a hallowed baseball field was 23-year-old Logan Morita. As the crowd fell quiet, he thought of a great-uncle, Jimmy Masatoshi Morita, who 80 ...
MANZANAR, Calif. — As millions cheered Shohei Ohtani’s debut in the World Series at Dodger Stadium, a couple of dozen ballplayers of Japanese descent gathered last weekend on a dusty field 200 ...
The field was at Manzanar, one of 10 camps where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans — the vast majority U.S. citizens born and raised in this country — were imprisoned during World War II.
For the first time in 80 years, baseball is being played at Manzanar.