Manzanar and Baseball: A Truly American Tale

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The story told of World War II and America is one of triumph over the Axis powers of Germany and Japan; a time when our entire nation stood together as one. It has served as both an anchor and a beacon of virtue in our nation’s history. But often forgotten from this time is the Executive Order signed by President Roosevelt that called for forcible removal of all Japanese Americans from the West Coast to inland internment camps. This order ripped apart families, their homes and their livelihoods. But as these immigrants and citizens were forced to make a new life, one thing that kept their communities together was the competition and pageantry of baseball. So today, we visit with Dan Kwong, a descendant of those held at the Manzanar internment camp, to hear about how in the coming days, his decades-long quest to bring America’s pastime back to a dark place in American history will finally reach a resolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A warning to our listeners. This episode contains culturally and
0:04.9	racially insensitive language. Please be advised.
0:09.2	Hey Barbara. Hi Dan, I'm here outside.
0:16.0	Okay, uh, let's see come on down to the end of the building. Oh, there you are.
0:18.0	Yeah, okay.
0:20.0	See you a second.
0:21.0	That's Bradford Craig, one of the producers with E-SPN Daily.
0:24.0	He's visiting with Dan Kwan.
0:27.0	Wow, there is so much cool stuff in here.
0:31.0	I've been having uniform fittings all day long. Oh wow that's already
0:36.2	happening. The guys have been coming in and having them try on and everything.
0:43.0	Dan's on a bit of a quest,
0:45.0	one that caught our attention.
0:46.8	And what's your day looking like today?
0:48.8	Where are you coming from?
0:50.5	Well, I came back from Manzanar on Thursday.
0:54.0	I was there Monday through Thursday.
0:56.0	That's kind of my standard week for the last two months
1:00.0	as I go up on a Monday and I work three or four days I come home I wash all my filthy
1:05.2	clothes and and then I crank up and go back up on Monday and do it all over again.
1:11.4	Nice. most infamous internment camps for Japanese Americans that existed during World War II.
1:25.0	It's a dark part of this nation's history where American citizens, including Dan's
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