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Baseball teams of the Shinko Shogyo Commercial School (Kobe, Japan) and the Portland Fuji posing in front of the stands at a Pacific Coast League Baseball park, Portland, Oregon, August 6, 1929
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| Title | Baseball teams of the Shinko Shogyo Commercial School (Kobe, Japan) and the Portland Fuji posing in front of the stands at a Pacific Coast League Baseball park, Portland, Oregon, August 6, 1929 |
| Photographer | Coffey Photo |
| Date | 1929 |
| Notes | The baseball park was probably Vaughn Street Park (Recreation Park) at Vaughn Street in Portland.
Caption on image: Shinko Shogyo Commercial School--Kobe, Japan. Coast League Park--August 6, 1929. Portland Fuji--Portland, Oregon.
PH Coll 128.144b |
| Contextual Notes | Frank Fukuda, coach of the Portland Fuji, was a prominent figure in the development of Japanese baseball in the Pacific Northwest. From 1912 until 1927 he was a player, manager and coach of several Seattle baseball teams mostly within the Asahi Club. During this time he worked in a local Japanese bank, Seattle Shokin Ginko, working his way up from cashier to manager and finally vice president. When the bank failed in 1927, he moved to Portland, Or. to become the principal of the Portland Japanese Language School, where he continued to coach and manage young Japanese teams. While he was coaching in Portland and in Wapato, his teams consistently won league championships and the annual Fourth of July Japanese Baseball Tournaments (begun in 1933). Fukuda was often called upon for short-term coaching assistance to help area teams experiencing "slumps" and he even traveled to Japan on at least two occasions to coach teams there for short periods of time. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Baseball players--Oregon--Portland; Baseball teams--Oregon--Portland; Portland Fujis (Baseball team); Shinko Shogyo Commercial School--Baseball |
| Location Depicted | United States--Oregon--Portland |
| Digital Collection | Panoramic Photographs
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| Order Number | PPC013 |
| Ordering Information | Restrictions apply to the ordering of this image. Please contact photos@u.washington.edu for more information. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Frank Fukuda Photograph and Ephemera Collection. PH Coll 128 |
| Object Type | Panoramic photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b&w; 5 1/2 x 31 1/4 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photograph at 400 dpi in TIFF format using a Graphtec CSX300-09, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2010. |
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