Vancouver Asahi

Vancouver Asahi

The Vancouver Asahi were a pre-World War II Japanese-Canadian baseball team. Extremely popular before the war, the team was nevertheless forced to disband with the onset of the Pacific War.

The team's home field was at the Powell Street Grounds, today's Oppenheimer Park.

External links

* [http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol11/no10/sleepingtigers.html Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story]
* [http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Asahi Virtual Museum of Canada: Asahi Canadian Baseball Legends]


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