#31: A Proud Benchwarmer--Baseball and Internment in the Pacific Northwest




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Summary: Kaye Koichi Kaminishi is the last surviving member of the Vancouver Asahi, a Japanese Canadian baseball club. The team was disbanded in 1942, when the Canadian government interned 21,000 Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, including every member of the Asahi. A Proud Benchwarmer is Kaye’s story.