baseball used at Gila River Concentration Camp
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Even though 120,000 Japanese and Japanese American persons were held in America’s concentration camps during World War II, internees continued to play baseball behind barbed wire. In 1943, they cleared brush and trees and tamped down the dust and dirt to construct baseball diamonds. By 1944, organizers had set up inter-camp games.
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ralph Kumano
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0393.02
label: accession number
content: 2016.0393
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0393.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: baseball, ball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 3 in x 3 in; 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm