Jack,
Wow, that is really interesting.
When we played there after the World Series in 66 Danny Ozark wouldn’t go out of the dugout for the playing of their national anthem. Walter O’Malley told him to stay in the clubhouse until after the anthem.
From: Jack Bloomfield <bloomfieldjack@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 3:16 PM
To: joe moeller <moe25joe@gmail.com>
Subject: Fw: story & photo
This is a very interesting story that I think you will like.
I was playing in the all star game in 1963 in Hiroshima. The ball park was built where the atomic bomb hit.
In the picture is the U.S.A. Marine band and the Japanese band. The Japanese band played the U.S.A. national anthem and the
U.S.A. Marine band played the Japanese anthem. 35,000 Japanese fans in the stands with my wife and another American players
wife sitting among them. It was a very weird feeling standing on the field with my cap over my heart with the playing of the two national anthems
and facing the two flags. The thought ran through my mind that seventeen years before my brother was in the South Pacific fighting them.
Hiroshima was not a real popular place for Americans. It had been only eighteen years since the bomb was dropped.
I was questioned several times by reporters over several years I was there how I felt about the bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. I finally got tired of hearing it. I told them there would not have been a Hiroshima if there hadn’t been a Pearl Harbor. They must have printed it because I was never asked again.
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