Richard “Babe” Karasawa, Paul “Po” Kaneyuki and Takeo “Tak” Sugimoto made headlines for their baseball successes during the 1940s
In 1910, a Japanese American baseball team from Los Angeles was scheduled to play against the California Winter League champion San Diego Bears.
When Orndorff finally arrived in the late afternoon, “Death Valley Jim” took the mound. The White Sox hurler was dominating, but the game was called because of darkness after only four innings. In 1936, Hideo Higashi won the Linn Platner Perpetual Baseball Trophy at San Diego State. His .406 batting average set a new standard for Aztec hitters.
In October 1944, Karasawa left Poston to attend Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Ill. His fondest baseball memory was beating the prestigious Culver Military Academy. In 1947, Larsen was selected to the All-Metropolitan League basketball team. Kaneyuki was named the Metro League Baseball Player of the Year.The honors didn’t stop there. Among first-team players on the 1947 Southern California Interscholastic Federation baseball team were future PCL Padres third baseman Rudy Regalado and future Pares Hall of Fame manager Dick Williams.
“Jumbo Takeshita was their star pitcher,” he said. “I kind of shocked him when I went 3-for-3 and drove in a run.”Josephine Yoch, a Spanish teacher at San Dieguito, occasionally visited those interned at Poston. Yoch quickly learned Sagimoto’s love for baseball. She asked Arthur Main, the principal of Poston’s school system — and, coincidentally, the former principal at San Dieguito — if the boy could return home.
Sugimoto planned to enter UCLA in the fall, but, like most high school seniors in 1945, received a draft notice following graduation. In the meantime, he entered Chaffey Junior College.
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