Barbed Wire Baseball Audiobook Libro.fm

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Barbed Wire Baseball tells the aweinspiring tale of Kenichi Zeni Zenimura who never gave up hope or let go of a dream As a young boy in Hawaii Zeni knew that he wanted to be a baseball player even though most people thought he was too small to play As he grew older his parents suggested other careers for him like medicine or law But Zeni kept playing baseball and grew up to be a successful player and manager eventually playing in games with baseball legends Babe Ruth and Lou GehrigBut after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 Zeni his wife and their two sons along with more than 100000 other American citizens of Japanese descent were sent to internment camps in the American Midwest and West They were imprisoned not for any wrongdoing but simply because of their ancestryAt the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona Zeni did not allow his situation to overcome him Instead with his sons and friends he built a baseball field that gave all the imprisoned a sense of pride and hope for the futureThe life of Kenichi Zenimura who was later named the father of Japanese American baseball offers an inspiring true story from a little discussed segment of American history