Japanese Baseball Film Screening on May 11

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"American Pastime" will be shown Friday in the Museum's Bullpen Theater.

(COOPERSTOWN, NY) – Following up on a topic first broached in February's "Desert Dreams Behind Barbed Wire," the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Electronic Field Trip to the Manzanar internment camp in California, filmmaker Kerry Yo Nakagawa's new film "American Pastime" will be screened Friday, May 11 at 6 p.m. in the Museum's Bullpen Theater in Cooperstown.

"American Pastime" dramatizes the plight of Japanese-American baseball players held in internment camps during World War II. Prior to the screening, Nakagawa will greet attendees and briefly discuss the movie's production. Nakagawa was a co-producer and consultant to the film.

The screening is open free of charge to all Museum visitors, area educators and local residents. Attendees are asked to use the Museum's Library Atrium entrance in Cooper Park. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. All those in attendance will receive a DVD copy of the "Desert Dreams" EFT for classroom or personal viewing. Also, Nakagawa's hardcover book, "Through a Diamond," will be on sale, along with its accompanying curriculum guide.

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