During this time many Japanese American communities across the West Coast were organizing teams and leagues. This brought the Japanese American community together in the wake of increasing antiJapanese legislation. While laws such as the Immigration Act of 1924 were effectively ending Japanese immigration into the United States. baseball was providing a valuable bridge between the East and West Coast cultures for Issei and Nisei here in the United States. It continued to play an important role in defining and developing a cultural identity throughout the 1930s. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor and President Roosevelts Executive Order initiating the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. the tradition of baseball resonated within these communities.
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