Baseball behind barbed wire  In the 1920s and 1930s, Japanese
immigrant communities across America formed semi-pro baseball
leagues. They had actually brought baseball with them from
Japan. A U.S. Professor, Horace Wilson, introduced the sport to
the Japanese in the 1870s.  The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
in 1941 changed everything. Japanese and Japanese-Americans were
ordered into a series of relocation centers throughout the
American West and Southwest. People had to leave everything
behind. They were not allowed to earn money or practice their
religion or even speak Japanese. But the camp directors did let
them do one thing: play ball. They built fields and formed teams
and leagues.  "Grass infields, grass outfields, they had 10 feet
caster beams as a home run fence, they used flour to chalk the
lines," says Kerry Nakagawa, director of the Nissei Baseball
Project. For the past few years, he has also been involved in
the making of a feature-length film about the experience in the
internment camps. The f