While Jackie Robinson and the Negro Leagues have been well
documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American
Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi
Zenimura (1900-1968). A phenomenal player who excelled at all nine
positions, Zenimura possessed a gift for using the game to
transcend the ignorance and intolerance of his era. As a player,
captain, and manager, he worked tirelessly to promote Japanese
American baseball, leading goodwill trips to Asia, helping to
negotiate tours of Japan by Negro League all-stars and Babe Ruth,
and establishing a 32-team league behind the barbed wire of
Arizona's Gila River Internment Camp during World War II. This
first biography of the "Father of Japanese-American Baseball"
delivers a thorough and fascinating account of Zenimura's life.
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