California baseball event revives Japanese American wartime history

A baseball event featuring two amateur games was held Saturday at the site of a World War II-era incarceration camp in California to increase awareness of the lives of Japanese Americans who were confined in the facility more than 80 years ago.Four teams from Japanese American baseball leagues in the state participated in the games at the former Manzanar camp in a desert area near the Nevada border, playing on a field restored to its wartime condition under a project led by the U.S. National Park Service.Dan Kwong, 69, a performance artist and longtime baseball player, was among those who h…READ FULL ARTICLE