150 E San Fernando St
San Jose, California 95112

A panel discussion featuring Kerry Yo Nakagawa, director of the Nisei Baseball Research Project; former Japanese league player Chitoshi Akizuki and Ralph Pearce, author of From Asahi to Zebras : Japanese American baseball in San Jose, California. The panel will discuss California's Japanese baseball leagues, how it parallels to the Negro Leagues and efforts being made for it to receive permanent recognition by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

This event is related to the "Pride & Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience" exhibit. The traveling exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas brought to life.
Room 225/229, 2nd Floor

Added by SJLibrary on January 22, 2010

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