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Title: Baseball game
Creator: Shimada, Mori, Japanese American, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: September or October 1944
Publication Information: Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Contributing Institution: Japanese American National Museum
Collection: Shimada (Moriyuki) Scrapbook
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Black and white photograph
1 b&w photograph of Mori Shimoda batting for Heart Mountain all star baseball team photograph. 1944 All-Star team from Heart Mountain which played a visiting team from Gila River. Most of the players are wearing uniforms from local teams they played for before the war. Heart Mountain All Stars won three games to two over Gila River All Stars. But Gila River won all of the other games. All the games were at Heart Mountain. Front row (left to right): Snooks Kaoota, Take Ikeda, Yuzo Yasuhara, John Santo, Russ Hinaga, Mori Shimada, Chesty Okagaki, Fuzzy Shimada (went on to become a professional bowler after the war). Back row: Tosh Asano, Texie Watanabe, Min Horino, Babe Nomura, Fumio Kusunoki, Norman Yasui, George Ishitani, Chiakizuki, Bill Shundo, Rosie Matsui (coach).
Type: image
Format: 4 x 6 in.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9b69p0bd
92.10.2E
Subject: Baseball
Concentration Camps, Heart Mountain
Zenimura, "Pop
Yasui, Norman
Shimada, Moriyuki
Catcher

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