More Than a Baseball Team

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Media Tectonics

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491_9784990617202

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This book is an adaptation of a Japanese language non-fiction work aboutCanada’s first Japanese-Canadian championship baseball team, theVancouver Asahi, active from 1914 to 1941 (Toho Shobo, 2009).The history of the Vancouver Asahi is also a history of the Japanese-Canadian immigrant experience. The team was a part of the growth ofLittle Tokyo in Vancouver, British Columbia.The Asahi dynasty was abruptly brought to a halt when the players,along with the rest of the Japanese community, were relocated tointernment camps after Pearl Harbor. Team members, though separated,still played baseball by organizing teams in the camps. Eventually, theMounties, who were the camp guards, became fans.After the war, Japanese-Canadians were prevented from returningto their homes on the west coast, and given a choice of living on theeast coast of Canada or being deported to Japan. Though the team neverrevived, they were honored belatedly by induction into the CanadianBaseball Hall of Fame.The story of the Asahi is one of hope and perseverance in the face ofadversity and racial prejudice. It is a story about young men playing forthe love of the game, instilling pride not just in their community, but in allof Canada as well.

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