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|Date=01/01/19
|Name=First team of Japanese Immigrants to US
|Date Type=Year
|Type of Date=Year
|Date=1919/12/01
|Country=United States
|State=UT
|City=Salt Lake City
|City=Salt Lake City
|State=UT
|Description=<p><span>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.</span></p>
|Country=United States
|Sources=<p>Email from Michael Flannery, 11/21/ 2010.</p>
|Name=First team of Japanese Immigrants to US
<p>Michael cites the webpage</p>
<p><a class="external free" title="http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/japaneselifeinutah.html" href="http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/japaneselifeinutah.html" rel="nofollow">http://historytogo.utah.gov/people/ethnic_cultures/the_peoples_of_utah/japaneselifeinutah.html</a></p>
<p>which includes a photograph of this team. Its depiction of immigrant baseball is spare.</p>
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Submitted by=Micheal Flannery
}}
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Revision as of 09:24, 24 February 2013

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Date 1919
Location Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Description

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.

Submitted by Micheal Flannery



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