Baseball has been played in Japan since the 1870s and was popular with Japanese people in the U.S. In 1942, over 110,000 Japanese were rounded up and placed in internment camps. One of these camps was in Gila River, Arizona. Kenichi Zenimura ("Zemi") who had played semi-pro baseball was in Gila River. He created a baseball "field of dreams" and 32 teams at all levels and both sexes competed. HIs All Star team played the AZ high school champs in a dramatic game in 1945. Oh man! What a game!!