Baseball Dreams Cut Short for Disaster Victims

For high school baseball players from Rikuzentakata, Japan, the dream to play in the Koushien national baseball tournament came to an end. But win or lose, the game helped to bring together a community still reeling from the March 11 tsunami.

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This is truly sad. The anguish can be so clearly felt by their cries after the loss. Just a game?  Perhaps, but with it was a way to cope. These boys were playing for a whole lot more than personal pride.

Hopefully, with Japan winning the women's World Cup Soccer Tournament, that will provide a modicum of healing for this devastated nation.