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'Allegiance' steps up to the plate

Posted by:	WaymanWong 06:30 pm EST 11/02/15
In reply to:	re: Telly Leung on the baseball number in Allegiance - Toodles 02:23 pm EST 11/02/15

The name of the new baseball song in ''Allegiance'' is ''Get in the Game,'' and baseball was a vital part of life in the camps. In fact, Japanese-Americans have been playing for more than a century; they had their own teams and played Pacific Coast clubs and all-stars from the Negro Leagues, and shared baseball diamonds with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige. Al Beir, a batboy for Ruth and Gehrig, said: ''Pound for pound, the Nisei players were as good as the Major Leaguers. They ate, thought and slept the game”.'' ''Diamonds in the Rough'' was the name of a traveling exhibit that was featured at Cooperstown, and it's the name of a 2000 documentary about the legacy of Japanese-Americans in the sport, narrated by Pat Morita. (Part of it's on YouTube.)
Link	100 years of Japanese-American baseball

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