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Building the Club

The Dream of a Team

• Baseball in Canada
• USA and Japan
• Yakyu
• Nikkei teams
• The Vancouver Nippons
• A dream

Founding the Club

• Asahi originals
• Coach Basha Matsu
• Maturing
• Into the Senior League
• 1919
• Asahi rising

Tour of Japan

• Vancouver's Asahis
• Dr. Nomura inspired
• Asahi All-Stars
• Setting out
• Asahi Tigers
• Baseball is booming
• Playing Japanese teams
• Touring Japan
• Bridge across the Pacific
• Esteemed Asahis

Brain Ball

• Competing styles
• Asahi advantage
• Smart Ball
• The bunt
• The squeeze
• Winning tactics
• Philosophy

Recruiting Talent

• Feeder teams system
• Regional team recruits
• Young boys dream
• Asahi "Juniors"
• Practice, practice, practice
• Battery mates
• Coaching champions

Triumph

The Leagues

• In the beginning …
• During the peacetime
• Leagues flourished
• The first Nikkei teams
• Vancouver City Senior Amateurs
• Vancouver Terminal League
• Senior 'A' baseball
• Tokyo Giants visit
• Burrard and Commercial leagues
• Pacific Northwest championship

Players

• For the love of the game
• Sustaining success
• Steady influences
• Disciplined teamwork
• Asahi hurlers
• Versatile infielders
• Outfield masters
• Outstanding hitters
• Late inning rallies

Champions

• First championship
• Key players
• Evolving contenders
• Terminal League champions
• Returning champions
• 'Triple' champions
• Pacific Northwest dominance

Achievements

• Asahi dynasty
• Brain ball
• Unrivaled sportsmanship
• Vancouver´s best
• Triumph

Pride of the Community

Powell Street, Vancouver

• Hastings Mill – Otasuke Kaisha
• Powell Street neighbourhood
• Establishing an urban centre
• Families and school
• 1908
• Powell Grounds
• The park
• A vibrant community

The Club and the community

• Supporting the club
• Devoted fans
• Ganbari
• Baseball fever
• Tokyo Giants
• Hangouts
• Respect
• Heartthrobs

Facing Racism

• Strength
• Determination
• Ingenuity
• Enterprise
• Mutual support
• Perseverance

On the Field

• The colour barrier
• Handling adversity
• Asahi cool
• Switching leagues
• Foul ball
• Protest

Into the Mainstream

• Accomplishment
• Integration
• In the loop
• Regard
• Sutoraiku, boru, seifu, auto
• Recognition

The Asahi Legacy

Disbanding

• War
• Compulsory registration
• Deciding to disband
• Expulsion
• May 1942
• Communities destroyed

Baseball in the Camps

• Carried with them
• The first year
• Out came the balls and gloves
• Lemon Creek championship
• Tashme Yamatos
• Asahi spirit

New Generations

• The second uprooting
• Starting anew
• Teams form again
• New generations
• Mr. Ump

Canadian legends

• Reunited
• Growing recognition
• Recovering Asahi history
• The legend retold
• Heroes on the big screen
• The Asahis live on

Baseball Cards

• Frank Hiroshi Nakamura
• Yo Yutaro Horii
• Eddie Eizaburo Kitagawa
• Junji George Ito
• Roy Yamamura
• Harry Sanzoku Miyasaki
• Tom Niichi Matoba
• Ty Kenichi Suga
• Frank Shiraishi
• Vancouver Asahis

Maps

Building the Club

• Nikkei communities in urban Vancouver
• Nikkei communities in the lower British Columbia mainland
• Canada to Japan - 1921 Asahi tour

Triumph

• Nikkei communities in the Pacific Northwest
• Baseball parks in Vancouver

Pride of the Community

• Powell Street neighbourhood

The Asahi Legacy

• Internment camps
• Postwar dispersal in Canada and Japan

Timeline

Nikkei History

• 1877
• 1886
• 1907
• 1908
• 1916-1917
• 1920
• 1923
• 1928
• 1929
• 1931
• 1936
• 1938
• 1941
• 1942
• 1944
• 1945
• 1945
• 1949
• 1967
• 1977
• 1988

Asahi History

• 1908
• 1914
• 1918
• 1919
• 1920
• 1921
• 1922
• 1924
• 1926
• 1927
• 1930
• 1932 – 1933
• 1933
• 1934
• 1935
• 1936
• 1936 – 1937
• 1937 – 1941
• 1938
• 1940
• 1941
• 1972
• 1992
• 2002
• 2003
• 2003
• 2005
• 2005
• 2006

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