Returning to Maui during baseball off-seasons to remind himself of the hard work required to succeed

Clip title: Returning to Maui during baseball off-seasons to remind himself of the hard work required to succeed

Interviewee: Wally Kaname Yonamine

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Clip transcript:

...after the season's over I'd be winning the batting title. I come to Honolulu, I catch the next plane, I'll go to Maui and see the old house that I used to live, or the cane field when I was 12, 14 years old where I used to cut grass and all that. Just to go see that place because, see, I didn't want to forget those things because I saw how my father used to work before and that gave me something that when I go back to Japan I could try harder. [It] give me a good incentive to be a much better ball player. So, you know, sometimes ball players, they do well, they make good money. They forget about how they suffered when they were kids. But, all my life, even today, even I'm retired, but I never forgot that.

Credits:

Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum.