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Heart of a Champion

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Ten-year-old Kenny (Kenji in Japanese) worships his older brother, Mickey (Mitsuo), a baseball hero whose outstanding performance at the Asahi baseball team has given him fame and popularity. In spite of Kenny’s suspected heart condition, he’s made up our minds to practice secretly with Mickey so he, too, can someday try out for the Asahi. But world events soon overtake life in this quiet community. When Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in 1941, the whole thing for Kenny and his circle of relatives spirals out of regulate: schools are closed, businesses are confiscated, fathers are arrested and sent to work camps in the BC interior and mothers and children are relocated to internment camps. When Mickey is arrested for a small act of violence, Kenny manages to keep his circle of relatives’s spirits up, In spite of the deplorable conditions in camp. Coming across a “vacant” field covered with scrap wood, broken shakes and torn tar paper, Kenny gets permission to clear it and convert it into a baseball field. Separately, the boys in the camp pitch in, and the work gives purpose to their long days. Kenny’s persistence, hard work and big dreams shape the teen he’s to turn out to be in this story of happiness found In spite of all odds.

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