Suitcase Sefton and the American Dream
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SUITCASE SEFTON AND THE AMERICAN DREAM is the story of a major league scout who discovers a pitcher in a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II. Combining fictional characters and historic personages, the novel is grounded in extensive historical research, growing out of a long article I wrote on baseball in the camps ("Baseball Behind Barbed Wire," Whole Earth Review, Winter 1990). You can find out more about the book, as well as read the original article and the first chapter of the novel, on my web site.