Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
As a boy, Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! Whe…
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