Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story
2003 - Canada
Type: Documentary
Rating: NR
Starring: Robert Ito
Directed by: Jari Osborne
PLOT DESCRIPTION
Canada and Japan aren't often mentioned
in histories of "America's Pastime," an oversight
Jari Osborne's documentary hopes to correct.
Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story focuses
on Vancouver's Asahi Tigers, founded in 1914, whose
1930s winning streak in the Pacific Northwest made them
the most formidable opponents in the entire province.
When WWII broke out, however, the government's internment
of any person of Japanese descent forced the men into holding
camps. Still, they were allowed to play baseball, and the game
became their only intermittent escape from the inhuman conditions
of camps -- even as their life on the field was made that much worse
by racist slurs and violent outbursts from the crowds. ~ Michael Hastings
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