Other firsts in baseball/Event 9
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Year | 1919 |
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City | Salt Lake City |
State | UT |
Country | USA |
Description | First team of Japanese Immigrants to US |
Found by | Micheal Flannery |
The Salt Lake City Nippon baseball team was in existence in 1919. It appears to have played at Liberty Park in Salt Lake City. As of November 2010, the Spread Project lists this team as the first known team of issei, or first-general Japanese immigrants, in the US.
Sources
Email from Michael Flannery, 11/21/ 2010.
Michael cites the webpage
http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/japaneselifeinutah.html
which includes a photograph of this team. Its depiction of immigrant baseball is spare.