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Brian KoyamaMan, you guys/gals are awesome on this board. I drool over all of your collections, especially seeing Julies rare/oddball Japanese type cards. Simply amazing!
Yes Hal, my grandfather was finally released after the war (I still have the newspaper clipping that showed his arrest on 2/21/42) Here's a link to the clipping (he's the one way in the back of the picture with the dark hair and glasses): http://photobucket.com/albums/v223/bghkoyama/ .
Most of my relatives were either shipped off or born in the concentration camps throughout the U.S. I could write a book on their lives growing up there.
I was lucky enough to know my grandfather (who was also a Grand Champion Kendo fighter/teacher) before he passed many years ago.
The T206's were the only cards that he had (Brooklyn Dodgers-yahoo!!), but he did tell me that he used to have a small album of tobacco cards that were confiscated. Boy, I wondered what they might look like today...
My dad actually got me started in collecting. He used to sneak into the LA Coliseum and old LA Wrigly field to watch the Dodgers and Angels play.
Max, I'll drop an email so I could get more info on the Japanese/Canadian BB team-sounds like a good story to look into!!