Barbed Wire Baseball, Marissa Moss
Barbed Wire Baseball, Marissa Moss
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Barbed Wire Baseball

Author: Marissa Moss

Narrator: Brian Nishii

Unabridged: 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/10/2022


Synopsis

Barbed Wire Baseball tells the awe-inspiring tale of Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura, who never gave up hope or let go of a dream. As a young boy in Hawaii, Zeni knew that he wanted to be a baseball player, even though most people thought he was too
small to play. As he grew older, his parents suggested other careers for him, like medicine or law. But Zeni kept playing baseball and grew up to be a successful player and manager, eventually playing in games with baseball legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

But after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni, his wife, and their two sons, along with more than 100,000 other American citizens of Japanese descent, were sent to internment camps in the American Midwest and West. They were
imprisoned not for any wrongdoing but simply because of their ancestry.

At the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona, Zeni did not allow his situation to overcome him. Instead, with his sons and friends, he built a baseball field that gave all the imprisoned a sense of pride and hope for the future.

The life of Kenichi Zenimura, who was later named the father of Japanese American baseball, offers an inspiring true story from a little discussed segment of American history.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on December 02, 2021

A new baseball season looms in the ol' U. S. of A. and I'll be watching, and listening. Growing up, I bent my ear almost every day to my transistor radio to listen to Ernie Harwell announce Detroit Tigers games. Sometimes I listened, or watched, with my Dad, who also numerous times a year drove me f......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on February 18, 2021

Author Marissa Moss and illustrator Yuko Shimizu tell the story of Kenichi "Zeni" Zenimura, a Japanese-American baseball player and team manager in this poignant and inspirational picture-book biography. Having loved the sport since he was an eight-year-old boy, when he saw his first game, Zeni grew......more

Goodreads review by Alex on May 20, 2013

From the time he was a young boy and saw his first baseball game, Kenochi "Zeni" Zenimura wanted to play baseball - he wanted that more than anything. And he was well on his way towards living his dream when he was old enough, managing local teams and playing with the Fresno Nisei League and the Fre......more

Goodreads review by Mary Ann on March 17, 2016

Kenichi Zenimura fell in love with baseball as a boy, moving to Fresno in 1920 to pursue his dreams of playing with the pros. But after Pearl Harbor, Zeni and his family were sent to an internment camp, imprisoned without trial. Moss tells the story of how Zeni organized baseball teams in the camps,......more

Goodreads review by Richie on July 04, 2013

Richie's Picks: BARBED WIRE BASEBALL by Marissa Moss and Yuko Shimizu, ill., Abrams, April 2013, 48p., ISBN: 978-1-4197-0521-2 Dateline: July 4, 2013 "Despite their widespread national pride, Americans evince a much more negative response when asked if the signers of the Declaration of Independence......more