Kano's Pitcher's Finger's Cut Poem by David Barry Temple

Japan's Taiwan in 1932
high school baseball playoff final
colonized inclusion
fifteen years before Jackie R.
Hino Sino Indigino integration
they lost the last game
but their spirit wooed the crowd
might may not make right
when spirit proud is not allowed
bring in the fortification
good guys finish last
when building a new nation
show they lost so now they'll win
show they lost so now they'll win
slap their faces so they'll begin again
Kano Kano start the spark
bring out millions to the park
before the dawn of Taiwan's dark
blood will be born in the birth of a nation