The AJA baseball league originated around 1906 form the plantation days of baseball leagues. Each ethnicity had their own teams and played against one another regularly. In 1996, former University of Hawaii All- American baseball player Billy Blanchette expressed interest to play in the AJA league. The league however, consists solely of players of Japanese ancestry, a tradition kept for ninety years. Blanchette, a Franco-American, was obviously not of this background while putting the league in a …showed first 75 words of 1532 total…

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