Baseball Saved Us

A children's book with text and artwork. A young boy starts to be made fun of at school, then his family is shipped to an assembly center (living in former horse stall), then shipped out again to an internment camp.

Some of the young people there start being disrespectful to their parents, so the adults build a baseball field. The rest of the story is about the young boy playing baseball, his family leaving the camp, and his resuming playing baseball.

Sort of an interesting quick overview of the internment of persons of Japanese descent, seen through the eyes of a child.



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