PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-1024-26 (Internet Archive: ajahp-SJA_1)

PARENT COLLECTION

Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

DESCRIPTION

Rare home movies of the Japanese American San Jose Asahi baseball team, founded in the 1910s. Their history is captured in the book "From Asahi to Zebras: Japanese American Baseball in San Jose," by Ralph Pearce.This film was taken by amateur photographer Toshiro Kimura, possibly at the San Jose Asahi diamond at Sixth and Jackson Streets.Kichitaro Okagaki, team manager circa 1925, appears at 00:17 at the far left.

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/ajahp-SJA_1.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

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