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My initial sports blog, “Thanks King” (titled in tribute to Jim Thorpe), eventually evolved into a series called “Bob and Baseball,” which highlights the role of baseball in the life of Robert Hayashida, a second-generation Japanese-American. Bob’s baseball skills blossomed while imprisoned at Tule Lake, one of the Internment Camps used by the American government during World War II, and led to a prolific post-war life, both on and off the baseball diamond.

One of the blogs in this series is featured in the recently published textbook
Sociology of Sport (12th ed.).

The blog series can be found at bobandbaseball.com.