<div><strong>Great Leap </strong>is excited to present the <strong>Manzanar Grand Opening Doubleheader</strong> to be played at Manzanar National Historic Site this October 2026! (exact date to be announced as season approaches)
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<div><strong>BACKGROUND</strong>
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<div>Manzanar was the first of ten WWII internment camps where Americans of Japanese ancestry were imprisoned without due process of law by the U.S. government. Overall, it was the largest mass incarceration in American history with 120,000 people being imprisoned between 1942 and 1945.
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<div>Uncertain if they would ever be free again, Japanese Americans did their best to create a sense of "home" in any way possible, with sports being one of the most important ways.
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<div>In the 1940s baseball was truly the National Pastime, by far the most popular sport in the country, and for incarcerated Japanese Americans it was no different. Baseball sprang up in every camp, where dozens of leagues were formed with hundreds of players. People were so hungry for a sense of normalcy, a way to feel proud, and a way to express their Americanness, games might draw a thousand spectators standing and sitting on bare ground in the blazing sun. It has been said that, without baseball, life would have been unbearable.
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<div><strong>TODAY</strong>
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<div>The main baseball field at Manzanar is currently being restored to its wartime configuration. Nearing completion it will be a new living testament to the determination and spirit of the Japanese American community and its ballplayers.
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<div>The <strong>Manzanar Baseball Project</strong> will feature players from the Japanese American baseball leagues of California playing a doubleheader to inaugurate the diamond:
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<li><strong>Li'l Tokio Giants vs. Florin Athletic Club</strong> - two of the longest continuously active teams in Southern and Northern California
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<li><strong>North vs. South All-Star Game</strong> - with players wearing custom-made 1940s-style uniforms and using vintage equipment.
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<div>This will be our Grand Opening, featuring the recent completion of the 22' tall Announcer Booth! Cultural performing arts will be part of the day, and it will be LIVE-STREAMED internationally. Our goal is to make this an annual tradition.
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<div><strong>Manzanar Baseball Project</strong> uses baseball to bring attention to an often overlooked chapter of our nation's history, and highlight its lessons in freedom, justice and respect.
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</div><img alt="" media_type="3" src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/77387709_1704199760816414_r." width="100%" />
<div><em>(NY Yankee legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig posing with Japanese American ballplayers in 1927)</em>
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