| pre-WWII. Shug Madokoro, Non Iwahashi. The Alameda Acorns basketball team is featured on the front page of the sports section on the January 1, 1941 issue of the Nichibei Shinbun.Two sportswriters, including Alameda native Haruo Imura, describe the world of sports as World War II rages in Europe and the Pacific, not knowing that at the end of the year, Pearl Harbor would be bombed. |
