Baseball Saved Us Written by Ken Mochizuki Illustrated by Dom Lee
One day my dad looked out at the endless desert and decided then and there to build a baseball field He said people needed something to do in Camp We weren't in a camp that was fun like summer camp Ours was in the middle of nowhere and we were behind a barbed wire fence Soldiers with guns made sure we stayed there and the man in the tower saw everything we did no matter where we were As Dad began walking over the dry cracked dirt I asked him again why we were here Because he said America is at war with Japan and the government thinks that Japanese Americans can't be trusted But it's wrong that we're in here We're Americans too Then he made a mark in the dirt and mumbled something about where the infield bases should be
