americans had for sports. football was more well an dapped to television than baseball was. and this is the period in which football and later on basketball began to compete with baseball as the american pasttime. television had a lot to do with that. people to this day will tell you had he prefer to listen to a baseball game on the radio than to watch it. whereas these other sports lend themselves more to the visual of television than to the old radio format. so television, you be sort of take it for granted today because the application of this idea of the image being and available to people. you have to imagine how new that was to people in the 1950s, right? that radio by bringing sound, the radio and phonograph into the home had a similar impact. television changes that very dramatically. you're so used to having what i would still call television at your fingertips. you're sort of watching television or ins all the time. some of you might we'll be doing that now if i didn't for bid you to bring your phones into the classroom. the ubiquitousness of this you have to imagine what it was like when this was all together was new, the idea of the image available for television was cutting edge.

americans. eight out of nine contests between 1897 and 1904. the national pasttime distinctly american game, but its rich history was also integral to the japanese culture. when japan won these games, they took great pride. they took great pride because they beat the americans, but they were also honorable when they won and showed a great amount of respect. at the same time the american teams who were quite bitter when they lost to the japanese teams. as you can see from this slide, baseball became part of a diplomatic mission, and japanese baseball teams came over to the united states. this one in particular happens in new york, and this was a procession as part of the fourth of july. all right? so baseball was a transnational sport. it became a meeting point. thus when baseball games occurred, especially behind incarceration, it was a physical, cultural, and social space that bridged generation, gender, and racial divides. baseball renewed and sustained a binational identity for japanese inmates during world war ii in america, and foreign baseball proved to be mor