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A League of Their Own
Title: A League of Their Own
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1557 | Pages: 6.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
A League of Their Own
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 1557 total…
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**Bibliography**
Bigold, Pat “Pure AJA has no place in public parks”. Honolulu Star Bulletin: Oct. 4, 96.
http://starbulletin.com/96/10/11/sports/bigold.html.
Kawamura, Kevin, “ AJA was right to keep Blanchette out of league”. Honolulu Star Bulletin:
Letters to the Editor: Oct. 7, 96. http:// starbulletin.com/96/10/07/editorial/letters.html.
Memminger, Charles, “who doesn’t want a league of their own”. Honolulu Star Bulletin; Honolulu Lite: Oct. 4, 96. http://starbulletin.com/96/10/07/features/memminger.html.
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