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Frank Endo - Amache photos (Item 5 of 12, “Summer food and games 2”)
Collected by: bokinaka
The people at this booth look like they are playing some kind of game.

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Frank Endo - Amache photos (Item 4 of 12, “Summer food and games 1”)
Collected by: bokinaka
This photo is most likely showing the festivities next to the baseball field for the big game.

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Frank Endo - Amache photos (Item 3 of 12, “American pasttime”)
Collected by: bokinaka
It looks like the whole camp came out to see the game. People tried to maintain some appearance of normal life.

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Jack Iwata Collection (Item 15 of 32, “Jack Iwata - Baseball”)
Collected by: eishida
To pass the time in camp, people organized themselves into various sports teams, most commonly baseball, softball and basketball teams. In this picture, the team is posed behind a pile ...

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George Hoshida Collection (Item 11 of 21, “George Hoshida, "Softball game, Sunday 9 AM, 7-18-43"”)
Collected by: eishida
It is unclear why these two pictures were drawn on the same sheet of paper. I assume it is due to George's limited supplies and desire to document all that ...

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Clara E. Breed Collection (Item 8 of 17, “Letter to Clara Breed from Louise Ogawa, Arcadia, California, May 16, 1942”)
Collected by: eishida

Even though Miss Breed's letters to her "children" have not survived, it is clear from letters like this one that she did, in fact, write. Louise Ogawa clearly writes in ...

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 59 of 124, “Pearl Harbor Day Ballgame”)
Collected by: lthistory
Joe Suski remembers playing a game with the Nippons against the Paramount Studio Cubs the afternoon of December 7, 1941.

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 48 of 124, “Playing for the Los Angeles Nippons”)
Collected by: lthistory
Joe Suski (Junior) recalls his days playing for the semi-pro team, the Los Angeles Nippons.

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 113 of 124, “Japanese American Baseball Legends”)
Collected by: lthistory
Ets Yoshiyama describes being honored as a Japanese American Baseball Legend at Dodger Stadium in June 2000.

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 73 of 124, “The Baseball Career of Jim Yamaguchi”)
Collected by: lthistory
Ets Yoshiyama describes the baseball career of Jim Yamaguchi, first Nisei to play for a Big Ten school.

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 49 of 124, “Batting Champion”)
Collected by: lthistory
Jack Kunitomi describes winning the JAU batting championship in 1936.

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 47 of 124, “The Los Angeles Nippons, 1935”)
Collected by: lthistory
The Los Angeles Nippons semi-pro baseball team in April 1935. Oliver Junior Joe Suski is fourth from the left in the front row. Suski played baseball at L.A. City College ...

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 24 of 124, “Oliver Juniors Baseball Team, 1929”)
Collected by: lthistory
The Oliver Juniors baseball team, 1929 Class "B" champions among L.A.'s Japanese American youth baseball teams. The manager was Jimmy Yamamoto, Joe Suski (middle row, fourth from right) was the ...

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 74 of 124, “Oliver Baseball in Japan”)
Collected by: lthistory
Oliver Junior Joe Suski and the rest of his Government Section baseball team during the Occupation of Japan around 1946. Joe, a member of the Military Intelligence Service, is second ...

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 86 of 124, “Invitation to First Olivers Reunion”)
Collected by: lthistory
The invitation to the first Olivers Clubs reunion dinner and award banquet in 1961. Gift of The Oliver Committee, Japanese American National Museum (2006.76).

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 112 of 124, “Japanese American Baseball Legends”)
Collected by: lthistory
0n June 10, 2000, the Los Angeles Dodgers honored several Japanese American baseball legends, including former Olivers Joe Suski (Juniors) and Ets Yoshiyama (Broncos), at Dodger Stadium. Joe is on ...

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The Oliver Clubs: Sports and Community in Japanese American Los Angeles (Item 30 of 124, “Olivers Baseball Team in Guadalupe, 1930”)
Collected by: lthistory
The Oliver Juniors traveled to Guadalupe, California to play the local Japanese American team, the Packers, at a game sponsored by George Aratani. At far right is Joe Suski; third ...

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Nihonmachi: Portland's Japantown (Item 5 of 9, “S. Ban Company Baseball Team, Portland, OR”)
Collected by: Oregon Nikkei

Teikoku Company, Furuya, Otagiri, Ota Tofu, S. Ban, and M. Hachiya Co. were just a few of the successful food and mercantile stores in Portland’s Nihonmachi. The S. Ban store ...