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Title: Makoto Otsu Interview
Narrator: Makoto Otsu
Interviewers: Tom Ikeda (secondary), Barbara Yasui (primary)
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: March 24, 2022
Densho ID: ddr-densho-1000-497-8

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BY: What were your favorite sports at that time?

MO: Well, baseball mostly.

BY: And was that like a school team or just pickup games?

MO: Pickup games.

BY: Pickup.

MO: And then had grown up at Asahi, Asahi baseball.

TI: Yeah, they were famous, right? They would come down to the United States.

MO: They had a competition with a team in Vancouver and Steveston at that time.

TI: Yeah, they were... so were you a baseball player, good enough that you thought about playing on some of these, I call them semi-pro teams?

MO: Well, I didn't play until Winnipeg because I played a lot of...

BY: Did basketball.

TI: Baseball. Oh, there was something else I was going to ask, can't remember. Sports... yeah, it's just interesting just this early Steveston life is different, especially in a fishing town.

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