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TI: So we're now going to go into the war, but before we do this, I wanted to ask Jill if there's anything else prewar Walnut Grove that you wanted to ask about.

JS: Can you talk a little bit about the baseball?

LW: Baseball?

JS: The baseball field and then your brother playing? Describe...

LW: Well, that was before the war, they built that...

JS: Stadium?

LW: Bleacher. It's so nice. Then the land, I guess they'd lease it out from the field. Some family that was farming back there, they made an agreement. And that's a regular ballpark with the fences around and everything. The community had a good baseball team. And during that time, each town, very competitive. They really go out to win. In fact, they really had a lot of, not the players, but the parents, fans is the one that do all the fighting, and they get mad. But they all had uniforms, and whenever they go to the game, they have to pay, they got... then when we were little, we used to shag those baseball, because you got a foul ball, you go over the fence, then we get maybe five ball for a nickel or something, you get paid, see. But that's the only thing I could remember before the war.

JS: Was there a name for the baseball team, the Walnut Grove...

LW: Well, they called... let's see, what were they called? Because they called it Delta, but that's after the, I think after the war. Because, in fact, from Japan, the team came and play over there, from Japan during that time.

JS: Before the war?

LW: Yeah, before the war, see.

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