Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer asian american fiction Families pooled resources and built

Families pooled resources and built Japanese language schools for their American-born Nisei children that doubled as meeting halls

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Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer asian american fiction Families pooled resources and builtBy Bill Staples, Jr. Foreword by Don Wakamatsu. While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900 1968). A talented player who excelled at all nine positions, Zenimura was also a respected manager and would become the Japanese American community's baseball ambassador. He worked tirelessly to promote the game at