Rampant social and racial discrimination in the American Southwest during the 1940s offered little opportunity for a community of Yaqui miners from Sonora, Mexico.
The choice was clear: labor in the dangerous copper mines like previous generations and dream of someday making it big on the baseball diamond.
One group of men and women, however, had the courage to challenge the status quo and forge a new way of life.
Rampant social and racial discrimination in the American Southwest during the 1940s offered little opportunity for a community of Yaqui miners from Sonora, Mexico.
The choice was clear: labor in the dangerous copper mines like previous generations and dream of someday making it big on the baseball diamond.
One group of men and women, however, had the courage to challenge the status quo and forge a new way of life.