BOOKS - Suitcase Sefton and the American Dream
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Suitcase Sefton and the American Dream
Author: Jay Feldman
Year: 2006
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.6 MB
Language: English
Year: 2006
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.6 MB
Language: English
Roving the lonesome highways in search of fresh baseball talent in 1942 New York Yankees scout Mac Suitcase Sefton discovers a onceinalifetime talent in Jerry Yamada The young lefthanded pitcher seems poised to take his place among the pantheon of major league pitching greats However hes being held indefinitely in a Japanese American internment camp and hes not even certain that he wants to play professional baseball Caught behind barbed wire in a camp in Arizona Jerry his lovely sister Annie and their oldworld parents make the best of their confinement while Sefton schemes to find a way to free Yamada and convince him to play for the Yanks Seftons interest in Yamada and his family changes from professional to personal when he accepts an offer to join the Yamadas for tea in their primitive quarters in a converted army barrack Seftons respect for their strength and the values they hold dear develops and deepens as he begins to see how his own lifestyle contrasts with the Yamadas A profound change takes place in him as he discusses freedom and the future with Annie As a result the relationships between the scout and the Japanese American family strain and strengthen as they share their cultures and lives Amid baseball racism and hope Sefton and the Yamadas rediscover the American dream
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