Cortez Wildcats
Area: Merced (Cortez)
Year: circa 1930

Description: In the early 1900s, Japanese immigrants began to settle in Merced County. Their American born children (also known as Nisei) took to the game of baseball. This Nisei baseball team was from the Cortez Colony and they played against other teams in the Valley.

Back row (left to right): Henry Kajioka, Yukihiro Yotsuya, George Kajioka, Eichi Sakaguchi, Kaoru Masuda, Keiji Date, Fred Miyamoto

Front row (left to right): Hilmar Blaine, Buichi Kajiwara, Shizuma Kuba, Nobuhiro Kajioka, Harry Morofuji

Contributor: Merced County Historical Society/Courthouse Museum