Prisoners in WWII Japanese incarceration camps were still American, and took part in baseball, the great American pastime Philip Byrd The all-star team from Gila River (Arizona) that played at Heart ...

In honor of his mother and others imprisoned at the internment camp, baseball player Dan Kwong has restored a diamond in the California desert Visitors to Manzanar National Historic Site will be able ...

Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, will host hundreds of delegates from the Society for American Baseball Research [SABR] Friday night. It’s been called “the conscience of Major League ...

As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in Manzanar for the first baseball games in the internment camp since World War II. As Shohei Ohtani played in the ...

UCLA history professor Joan Waugh is one of the country’s pre-eminent scholars on American history in the latter half of the 19th century and in particular the Civil War. She’s also a lifelong ...

In spring 1942, 15-year-old Momo Nagano needed a way to fill her time. She was imprisoned at the Manzanar Relocation Center along with approximately 10,000 other people of Japanese ancestry. When ...

Major John Griffith envisioned a nation made better, healthier and stronger — more powerful and patriotic — and forged by youthful competition that preached good citizenship. To this day, his legacy ...

Daniel "Doc" Adams nurtured baseball in its formative years of the mid-1800s as if it were his only child. He laid down the laws of baseball in its infancy, guiding the sport the rest of its days. He ...

The greatest thing about baseball, perhaps, is its history. In nearly 150 years of play in leagues and informal competition that goes back further, many people have made baseball’s history what it is ...