
09/29/2025
After nearly two years of planning, fundraising and labor, the newly restored baseball diamond at the Manzanar National Historic Site will have its grand opening with a special doubleheader on Saturday, Oct. 18.
“We’re going to this place of sadness and pain and do something joyful and wonderful,” Kwong told The Rafu Shimpo last year. “In a way I think we are following in the footsteps of Issei and Nisei, because that’s what they had to do. They the made beautiful gardens, they played sports, they practiced cultural traditions, they were not going to be stopped from living life.”
Kwong hopes to make the games an annual tradition on the field, which has been restored by scores of volunteers, from identifying markers of the old diamond and pulling weeds by hand, to the construction of the backstop, fan seats, and this week, the building of the raised announcers’ booth.
Games will be played on the newly restored diamond. Volunteers are sought for the day-long event at the historic site. RAFU STAFF REPORTS After nearly two years of planning, fundraising and labor, the newly restored baseball diamond at the Manzanar National Historic Site will have its grand opening....