How baseball helped shape Japanese migrants’ experiences during the White Australia policy
- Written by Ray Nickson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle
The only known photo of the Nippon Baseball Club. First published in The Sun newspaper, September 1, 1918.In 1919, Japanese migrants in Sydney gifted a silver cup to the New South Wales Baseball Association.
The cup was “in appreciation of the friendship and good feeling accorded to the Nippon (Baseball) Club since it joined the...
