For nearly two decades, Dan Kwong had the dream of restoring the baseball field at Manzanar, the sprawling camp in the Mojave Desert where thousands of Japanese and Americans with Japanese ancestry were incarcerated during World War II, among them Mr. Kwong's mother.
To come to these camps, to be in Manzanar, where you have lost everything, the one thing they could hold on to the one thing they could keep was the game of baseball, Mr. Kwong said.
And then on a deeper, symbolic level, it was an expression of Americanness. It was like, this is our game, this is our culture, we are a part of this, and we are going to do it even here.
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