“Rebuilding Home Plate” receives exhibit excellence award

Arizona Baseball Legacy and Experience is honored to be partners in an award-winning museum exhibit. “Rebuilding Home Plate – Baseball in Arizona’s Japanese American Incarceration Camps,” was hosted earlier this year by the Arizona Heritage Center Papago Park.

The project recently received The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Award for Exhibition Excellence. This  national recognition honors excellence for an exhibition that furthers the study and understanding of the North American West. The competition recognizes outstanding achievements of a temporary exhibition from all types of museums as defined by the American Alliance of Museums.

“Rebuilding Home Plate” tells the stories of Japanese Americans who were stripped of their constitutional rights during World War II and how baseball was a means of enduring and escaping their imprisonment.

“We were thrilled to partner on an exhibit to bring these important stories to light,” said ABLE President Mike Phillips. “Our team hopes the Charles Redd award generates more recognition and understanding of these events and the individuals who lived through them.”  

ABLE’s partners in presenting “Rebuilding Home Plate” were the Arizona Heritage Center and the Nisei Baseball Research Project. Versions of the same exhibit were also on display during two Major League Baseball All-Star Games: at Dodger Stadium in 2022 and at the Seattle FanFest earlier this year.

We’ll announce future locations for the “Rebuilding Home Plate” exhibit when they are confirmed.