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Date de parution
09 avril 2013
EAN13
9781613124932
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
12 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
09 avril 2013
EAN13
9781613124932
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
12 Mo
BARBED WIRE BASEBALL
tells the awe-inspiring tale of Kenichi Zeni Zenimura, who never gave up hope or let go of a dream. As a young boy in Hawaii, Zeni knew that he wanted to be a baseball player, even though most people thought he was too small to play. As he grew older, his parents suggested other careers for him, like medicine or law. But Zeni kept playing baseball and grew up to be a successful player and man ager, 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 more than 100,000 other American citizens of Japanese descent, were sent to internment camps in the American Midwest and West. They were imprisoned not for any wrongdoing but simply because of their ancestry.
At the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona, Zeni did not al-low his 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 named the father of Japanese American baseball, offers an inspiring true story from a little-discussed segment of American history.
TO HOWARD REEVES, EDITOR EXTRAORDINAIRE - MM
TD MY PARENTS AND MY SISTER JUNE, AND MY AMEfllCAN FAMILY, KATIE YAMASAKI, WITHOUT WHOM IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TD COMPLETE THIS PROJECT - YS
Z ENI WATCHED THE WOODEN DAT THWACK THE BASEBALL,
hurling it high and straight. He was eight years old, and it was the first time he d seen a baseball game, but he was hooked. Father, I want to play! he told his dad. You re too small, his father said. Too frail, added his mother. But Zeni didn t listen. He had to play. The other kids laughed at him. Zeni, you re a mouse! one boy hooted. A teeny tiny one! another kid called. None of it mattered. When Zeni had a ball or bat in his hand, he felt like a giant. And soon he played like one.
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