Lecture on the history of baseball and Japanese Americans ahead of the signing of the presidential order. In 1942, during World War II, then-President Roosevelt signed an executive order that forced approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans and others who were considered "enemy aliens" into internment camps across the United States.

Kelly Nakagawa works to document and disseminate the history. of Japanese American baseball, which continued even ininternment camps. He also said that there were Japanese American players with the ability to play in the major leagues in the camps at the time.