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Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball

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This is a great book. Through the stories, pictures, and interviews, we are shown how the game of baseball kept a spirit alive in some great Americans in such a difficult time. Kerry Nakagawa has done a wonderful job of caputuring the spirit of some courageous people, placed in concentration camps during the second world war. Over 100,000 Japanesee- Americans were placed in these camps by the US Government. Despite such a tradgety, the prisoners built baseball fields and formed leagues to keep spirits high in this rough time. Diamonds in the Rough is filled with stories that show how the human spirit can prevail in even the most difficult of times. This book not only presents those excellent insights of perservence and history, but it is also a great baseball book that will be enjoyed by baseball players and fans everywhere. I will not only treasure my copy, but I will get more for great gifts.

This book tells a chapter of baseball history that really needed to be revealed to a larger audience. The research and pictures are terrific, as are the stories This author has done much to inspire other researchers to dig deeper into a gold mine of untold stories. I can't recommend this book highly enough to those who want to learn more about baseball history.