"BROADCASTER:" "Here comes the pitch." "[BALL THUDS]" "Strike three." "He struck him out." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "[CHATTERING]" "Oh, okay." "Tommy Dorsey or Glenn Miller?" " Tommy Dorsey." "LYLE:" "Uh, why?" " My Frankie." " Ah." "Heh, that skinny little Italian cat?" " No, hell, no." "LYLE:" "Come on." "How about this one, huh?" "What's that?" "[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON RECORD PLAYER]" "[WOMAN SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "I need your help on Sunday." "Uh, yeah, sure." "No problem." "Oh, hey." "I got the promotion." "Can you believe that?" "Five years and I'm finally doing it." "That looks so good." "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "LYLE:" "There's only one guy on your team." "Is it Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams?" "MAN:" "Yankee Clipper." "Sweetest swing in the game." "LYLE:" "How about this one:" " Bette Davis or Rita Hayworth?" " Ooh!" " Ha-ha-ha." "I'll take them both." " In your dreams." "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "Come and get it." "Hot dog, hamburger." "And Benny's hot-and-spicy sausages." "[LYLE PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC ON SAXOPHONE]" "KAZ:" "Lane, get your brother." "[EMI SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "LANE:" "Hey, Lyle!" " What do you want?" "Okay." "LYLE [IN VOICE-OVER]:" "Jazz and baseball." " Faster." "LYLE:" "The sax I picked up on my own." "The baseball, that was my dad." "Taught me everything I know about it." "And it got me an athletic scholarship to San Francisco State." "My older brother Lane went straight from high school to working to help the family so I'm gonna be the first to go to college." "Jazz and baseball." "ROOSEVELT [ON RADIO]:" "Yesterday December 7th, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." "The United States was at peace with that nation and at the solicitation of Japan was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific." "[ROOSEVELT SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO]" "LYLE:" "We were given 10 days' notice." "Ten days to close the family business to sell our furniture, to clear everything from our home." "We gave our dog to the neighbors." "I smashed my records and left them there." "We were only allowed to bring what we could carry with us." "First we were held at the Santa Anita racetrack living in a horse stall." "Then we were taken further away." "Everything we had known was gone." "ROOSEVELT [ON RADIO]:" "determination of our people." "We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God." "[CAR APPROACHING]" "[MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY AND THEN BABY CRYING]" "[OFFICER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER LOUDSPEAKER]" "[CHATTERING]" "[WHISTLE BLOWING]" "[JEEP HORN HONKING]" "OFFICER [ON LOUDSPEAKER]:" "Prisoner..." "MAN:" "Identification?" "...step away from the fence." "SOLDIER [SHOUTING]:" "Get on with it, now." "Keep away from the damn fence!" "OFFICER [ON LOUDSPEAKER]:" "Follow all instructions and keep calm." "SOLDIER:" "Okay, keep the line moving." "Go to the center circle." "Find your belongings." "Stand in line." "Once again, those of you exiting these vehicles or anyone by the center circle keep the line moving." "Head of the line's right there." "If you're not sure what line you're supposed to be in find a soldier or an officer that is near to you and ask them." "Once again, once you exit this vehicle go to the center circle to get your belongings quickly." "Okay." "Let's go." "BILLY:" "If you're not sure, ask one of the soldiers." "They will tell what line you should be in." "Keep it moving." "All right, right here, just keep it moving." "She can get her own things." "Move on." "Move on." "BILLY:" "Once you got your bag, just move on." "Hey." "You, in the gray cap." "You understand English?" "Get up, get back in line." "Go, go, go." "Go." "Go." " She's my mother." " I'm okay." "Go, go." "[OFFICER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON LOUDSPEAKER]" "[CHATTERING]" "BILLY:" "Find your belongings and then get in line." "Once again, those of you exiting these vehicles..." "KAZ:" "How are you?" " I'm fine." "Okay." "[OFFICER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON LOUDSPEAKER]" "Can we have everyone's attention?" "KAZ:" "Inspection is in a few minutes." "Not enough time to go outside." "We change here." "Men and boys, come to this side." "And will please all the women and girls come to this side." "KAZ:" "Okay." "[DOOR OPENS]" "Block 41, Barracks 11, bed check." "Everybody step to your cots." "[WOMEN GASPING]" "[CHATTERING]" "Is that one of those trick pictures like they have at carnivals or...?" "LANE:" "No, my dad played semipro ball." "See, Ruth, Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, they're on a barnstorming team." "They play on my dad's all-star team." "See?" "Well, this guy right here, he's about as close as you can get without actually being a real Yankee." "He's in their farm system, Class A ball." "Line up." "If you're not there when your name is called you will be reported as missing curfew." "MACK:" "Nomura." "Emyko, Kazuo, Lane and Lyle Nomura." "KAZ:" "I am Kazuo." "My wife, my sons." "MAN:" "Good evening." "My name is Walter Watson, and I'm the director of this camp." "WATSON:" "The government has created this camp with your well-being in mind." "Every effort has been made here to make your transition as smooth as possible." "You'll have an opportunity to live and work here and establish constructive lives as close to those that you previously had." "As for me personally, I look forward to working with each and every one of you and I wish to bid you all a very good first night." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "ANNOUNCER:" "Single-A minor-league pro ball." "Coming to the plate Bees catcher Billy Burrell." "ANNOUNCER:" "Billy's the heart and soul of his team's game." "WOMAN:" "All right, hit it out of the park!" "ANNOUNCER:" "If you ask me, Billy is still showing why he was once considered a major-league prospect." "[CROWD ROARS]" "My, oh, my, look at it fly." "ANNOUNCER:" "Billy caught all of that one." "That's a two-run shot." "That's the game winner, Billy Burrell!" "ANNOUNCER:" "Your Abraham Bees pull it out, 6 to 5." "JOE:" "He's having a heck of a season." " Ha-ha-ha." " His best in years." "The last time he had a start like this was back in Triple-A." "Don Lemon himself came out to take a look at him." "We really thought we were gonna get called up that year." "JOE:" "Hmm." "ANNOUNCER:" "Billy's son, Billy Jr., played with the Bees briefly before he shipped out to the Pacific." "Father and son, both doing their duty for their country." "[CONVERSING INDISTINCTLY]" "[HAMMERING]" "[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON SAXOPHONE]" "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "LYLE:" "Hey, I can play here if I want to, okay?" "It's a free country." "Free country, huh?" "If it's a free country, let me see you take that horn and go on the other side of that fence and play." "Get out of here." " What is that over there?" " It's nothing for you." "Go play someplace else." "What do you got back there, old man?" "LYLE:" "You making something with those peaches?" "Is that booze?" "[ALARM WAILING]" "MAN [ON LOUDSPEAKER]:" "All residents must be in their barracks." "All residents must remain in their barracks." "No one is allowed out of the barracks." "BILLY:" "Block 41, Barracks 11." "Name:" "Nomura, Lyle." "Area around this barracks, then perimeter search." "BILLY:" "We don't find him, we'll do barracks-to-barracks." "NORRIS:" "We found him out near the northeast firebreaks." " He's drunk." "NORRIS:" "He was lying on the ground." " Smart-ass said he got lost." "BILLY:" "Phew." "Smells sweet." "You make some kind of home-brew?" "You make the booze, or did somebody bring it in?" "Did you make it, or did somebody bring it into the camp?" "BILLY:" "Where--?" "Son of a bitch!" "WATSON:" "Who called lockdown?" "Prisoner was missing." "He wasn't in his barracks." "You are not authorized to call lockdown." " I'm putting him in the stockade." " He's my son." "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "KAZ:" "Everybody, listen." "We have to do what we can to make a new home each one of us." "My father has spoken to Director Watson and he said we're allowed to make improvements on our barracks." "Too many of us have gotten sick." "We can patch the holes, uh make curtains, do whatever we can to stop the wind and dust from coming in." "There are over 8000 of us here." "LANE:" "We have the skills we can use." "Now, the government won't help but they will allow us to use mail-order catalogs and to go outside into town for supplies." "We have to pay our own way, but if everyone contributes then like my father said:" ""Out of necessity, we can make a new home for ourselves."" "[CHATTERING]" "ED:" "Says here she's a pretty nice sort of person when she lets her hair down." "Huh." "Did you know Rita Hayworth was actually a Mexican?" "Hey, Billy." "Ed." "Camp okayed the Japs to come in, order some supplies directly." "Hi, I'm Kaz." " My son Lane." " Hi." "Do you have in stock?" ""Fertilizer, watermelon seeds, strawberry plants."" "What's this, uh...?" "JOE:" "Ginger something?" " Uh, that's gingham." "JOE:" "The material?" " Yeah, my mom wants it to make curtains." "How you gonna pay for all this?" " Cash." "ED:" "Ha." "Now we're giving these people cash too?" "ED:" "Sure, bring them here." "We'll take care of them, we'll feed them." "We'll house them, and you know what?" "While we're at it why don't we give them some extra cash, just to go along with it?" "No one is giving us money." "We were afraid banks would take our savings so we brought money here." " Bullshit." " Leave them alone, Ed." "You're not gonna win the war in here." "Let me see what I got in stock." "As long as you can make a buck out of it." "[LANE SIGHS]" " It's okay." " Yeah." "Katie got a letter from your boy Jackie." "Hmm." "Yeah, they're shipping him out to the Solomons not far from where your son is." "We said a prayer for him last night at dinner." "I appreciate that, Billy." "Yeah, we got most of it here but those curtains?" "Gonna have to order." " Thank you." " Thanks." "[ED SCOFFS]" "Gingham curtains?" "MAN:" "How can we be held?" "How can we be held without being charged with breaking any laws?" "What happened to the Constitution?" "Where are all the Germans?" "What about the Italians?" "MAN:" "Demand answers." "Join us." "Come on." "Demand answers." "You're afraid." "You're all afraid." "Where do you think they're taking them?" "Nobody knows." "They don't know where they're going or for how long." "NORI:" "They got a special camp for these guys." "They put all the bad apples in one place and make apple cider out of them." "Come on." "Let's go." "NORI:" "Now, listen." "Where there are people, there's gonna be drinking and gambling." "Where there's drinking and gambling, there's money to be made." "You that good of a gambler?" "There's no such thing as a good gambler." "Hey, I haven't risked a nickel in 25 years." "The only way to win in gambling is to be the house, the bank to run the games." "[LYLE PLAYING SAXOPHONE]" "NORI:" "That way, I don't give a damn who wins or loses." "Just give me a little piece of the play." "People wanna drink, I'll make it for nothing and sell it to them for a buck." "[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]" "Hey, it's business." "Hurry up." "Hey, what does he wanna talk about?" "[LANE SCOFFING]" " I don't know." " Yes, you do." "All right, okay." "Maybe I do." "Let's go, let's go." "Just be a big boy." "Okay." "LYLE:" "You wanted to talk to me?" "When I was a young boy, I came to America." "I could not speak English." "KAZ:" "Kids made fun of me." "One day, I found a game." " Baseball." " Baseball." "Yeah." "KAZ:" "And I became good." "I became so good, no one could deny it." "And the kids stopped making fun of me." "I want to make a league here just like we had at home." "You remember the first time you put a ball in my hand?" "I was 5." "You told me about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig." "Lefty Grove." "You made me believe that I could be Babe Ruth." "That that was possible, that I could try to be like him." "But you know what, Dad?" "It's not true." "[MUSIC PLAYING ON PIANO AND GIRLS SINGING]" "[LYLE PLAYING SAXOPHONE AND THEN GIRLS GIGGLING]" "Girls." "You making fun of us?" "[HONKING]" "Shh." "I don't think that's very funny." "I have the room here from 4:30." "Jazz-band auditions." "Well, we're not done here yet, so you'll just have to wait, okay?" "All right, girls, focus." "KATIE:" "Eyes front." "Let's try it again, okay?" "And one, two, three." "One, two, three." "[MUSIC PLAYING ON PIANO AND GIRLS SINGING]" "[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]" "BILLY:" "Jesus." "Hollister." "That kid Don Lemon brought up to the Yankees?" "Did he make the news in New York?" "You know, he reminded me of Billy Jr." "I thought he really had a chance." "I taught him things I believe." "He never even got an at bat." "Can you imagine that?" "You spend your whole life dreaming of making it there, then get called into the Army." "Why couldn't they at least let him have one?" "Just one stinking big-league at bat?" "Wasn't any sugar left." "Must have used it all up." "SHIRLEY:" "Billy, take a look at this lineup now." "The great New York Yankees." "No DiMaggio, no Bill Dickey." " The starters are all gone." " Yeah." "SHIRLEY:" "In another few months the war's gonna take everybody between the ages of 18 and 35." "We're gonna have another chance." "I'm too damn old." "SHIRLEY:" "No, no, not with the way things are now." "The war's changing everything." "We've gotta get Don Lemon here in that fancy car of his and take another look at you." "KATIE:" "Big leagues, New York City?" "I haven't heard you talk like this since I was a little girl." " Your mother's dreaming, sweetie." "SHIRLEY:" "Mm-mm." "[SHIRLEY CHUCKLES]" "[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "MAN 1:" "All right, Lane." "Come on." "Batter up." "MAN 2:" "One time, right down the middle." "[MEN CHEERING]" "MAN 1:" "Come on." "MAN 2:" "You too, baby." "One more, one more." "LYLE:" "My brother never had any interest in baseball." "I mean, he could barely even throw a ball." "But it was him, not me who helped my father get guys organized and start playing." "[CHATTERING]" "And after that, it just..." "It was never the same between me and my father and brother." "[BAMBINO PLAYING UKULELE AND SINGING]" "Wait." "MAN 1:" "Let's go, come on!" "Two teams." "Pick which one you want to be on." "[BAMBINO LAUGHS]" " Home-run champ, bro." "KAZ:" "What?" " Da kine Hawaiian league." " Shortstop, Fresno Tigers." "Let's go, let's go." "[MEN CHEERING]" "MAN 1:" "Come on." "MAN 2:" "Go, go, go." "MAN 2:" "In the middle!" "We got him!" "Thank you, son." "Give me something right here." "Give me something." "Give me something." "MAN 2:" "Come on, Lane." "[MEN LAUGHING AND CHEERING]" " Foul, it's a foul ball." "BAMBINO:" "Oh, yeah." " Home run all the way, little brother." "LANE:" "It's a foul ball." "Foul ball." "BAMBINO:" "Fair ball." "Fair ball." "LANE:" "Foul ball." "BAMBINO:" "Fair." "MAN 2:" "No way, come on." "Fair." "Fair." "That's fair." "BAMBINO:" "Fair." "[BAND PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC]" "[CHATTERING]" "LYLE:" "Hey." "KATIE:" "Hi." " Hey, come on up and sit in." "Oh, no, no, no." "I was just curious." "I've never been to a dance like this before." " No, come on up." " No." "No, no, no." "Seriously, no, I can't." "Oh, I'm sorry." "I didn't realize you were afraid." " Let's go." " I need you to let her sit in." " All right, we're about to hit the melody." " Okay." "You ready?" " Hey, take a verse." " What?" "LYLE:" "A verse, a solo." "Take a verse." "Uh, there's no solo written here." "LYLE:" "Just try it, play what you feel." "[KATIE GIGGLES]" "[MEN CONVERSING INDISTINCTLY]" "Hey." "[LYLE CLEARS THROAT]" " You weren't so bad in there." " Oh, yeah, right." "No, I'm serious." "Uh..." "Started off a little stiff..." " ...but you started to get the hang of it." " Ha-ha." "When I got up, I thought I was gonna have a heart attack." "You know, I was just like that my first time." " Down at the Avenue." " What's the Avenue?" "You want a drink?" "Sure." "LYLE:" "Oh, so Central Avenue, downtown L.A." "All the best players in the country go there." " Oh." " And so this one night uh, somehow I got up the nerve to just go on down there for jam night." " By myself." " Oh, my gosh." "I mean, I was so nervous I just stood by the edge of the stage." "Everyone was looking at me funny because..." "I mean, it's a hundred percent colored people over there." "Oh." "So, um, they finally call my name and I put my horn to my lips." " And nothing." " No." "I could not play a note." "But, you know, there was this piano guy." "He was this old cat." "He looked at me and he said:" " "Go ahead, son." "Play a verse."" " Ha-ha-ha-ha." "Oh, my God." "But I did." "I did." "I started playing and it was amazing." "Me, up there with guys from Count Basie's band." "Wow." "Okay, I never even knew that Japs played jazz." "I'm not a Jap." "I was born here just like you." "I'm sorry, I didn't me" "Thanks for letting me play with the band." "LYLE:" "Hey, big brother." "Worn out from all that dancing?" "Yeah." "It's hot in there." "Give me a cigarette." " Didn't know you still had those moves." " Yeah, that Nancy girl's running off my feet." "What are you doing out here?" " Oh, you know, just needed some air." " Yeah." "So?" "LANE:" "Hmm?" "Why'd you ask her to come up and play like that?" "[LYLE SCOFFS]" "Thanks, Dad." "Our people fighting and dying and these people here..." "[BILLY GROANS]" "They start a baseball league." "BILLY:" "They have dances, beauty pageants." "Ah, Watson and his Quakers made this place into a summer camp." "I've become a goddamn babysitter." "MACK:" "Will you get that ball for us?" "BILLY:" "The ball there." "Oh, sorry." "No English." "Get the ball, pick it up, throw it back here." "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "You, you understand English." "BILLY:" "Throw it back here." "If you can't get it all the way just try to get it as close to Mack, right there." "You got a pretty good arm." "How about betting a buck and see if you can strike out the sergeant there?" "Five bucks." "Five?" "I'll put up the 5." "BILLY:" "One at bat." "Maximum seven pitches." "Hit, walk or strike out." "You strike me out, you win 5 bucks." "You don't, I win." "Call the shot, Billy." "Like Babe Ruth." "Show him where you're gonna hit it." "[BILLY GRUNTS]" "Attaboy, Lyle." "You guys didn't know he had a scholarship to play baseball, did you, huh?" "[NORI LAUGHING]" "You picked up English quick, didn't you, Tojo?" "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "Just a little bit." "[BILLY GRUNTS]" "How about that?" "Huh?" "Zero and two." "You wanna double that bet?" "LYLE:" "Make it 10?" "[NORI MUTTERS]" "Ten bucks." "NORI:" "Throw them in there, Lyle." "Easy money, Lyle." "We got a couple of suckers on our hands here." " Ball one." " That was right down the middle." "Off the outside corner." "One and two." " Ball two." " That was strike three and you know it." "Just a little bit high, don't you think there, Macky?" "That's right." "Just a little bit, just a little bit high." " Bullshit." " Hey, watch your mouth, boy." "Ha." "Not much question about that one." "BILLY:" "Full count." "Three and two." "Let's see what you do with money on the line." "Ball four." "Where's my money, hotshot?" "You couldn't hit me if your life depended on it." "You weren't even close those first two." "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "NORI:" "Ten bucks." "I handle the money." "Here's your 10 bucks." "And thank you." "Thank you for a great demonstration of skill and sportsmanship." "Like we say in the old country:" "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "Let it go, Lyle." "Let it go." "Who the hell does he think he is, thinking he could play baseball?" "This had nothing to do with baseball." "[LYLE PLAYING SAXOPHONE AND KATIE PLAYING PIANO]" "[KATIE SIGHS]" "I start getting it and then my fingers won't do it." "It's okay." "Just take it again at half tempo, but this time listen." "No, no." "Don't go easy on me." "I wanna play it fast, jazz-style." "See?" "It's not about playing it fast." "Sometimes it's more about what you're not playing than what you are playing." " You just have to listen." " I am listening." "No, you're not listening." "You don't even know how to listen." "I listen." "Hey, I know these guys." "Old guys." "They told me they spent their whole lives trying to learn how to play one phrase." "Listening to it, getting it right." "You know, the sound." "Getting a feel for it." "Trust me, okay?" " Let's try it again, slowly." " Okay." "[BAT CRACKS AND THEN CROWD CHEERING]" "ANNOUNCER:" "Tully rounding first and headed for second." "[GRUNTING]" "Look out." "Feel like you can use a haircut?" "Don't forget about Ed's Barbershop." "ANNOUNCER:" "Cut it right, cut it at Ed's." " Feels good to be in first place, don't it?" " Yeah, not bad, huh?" "Good ball game." "Billy." "I thought you'd wanna see him as soon as possible." "Oh, Jesus." "Billy's son." " No." "WOMAN:" "Sit down." " No." "WOMAN:" "Sit down." "[SHIRLEY SOBBING]" "[SINGING "SILENT NIGHT"]" "[CHATTERING]" "[CONVERSING IN JAPANESE AND THEN LAUGHING]" "Mom, Dad, Lyle." "I have something important I wanna say." "I enlisted." "LANE:" "I joined the Army." "I can't be in here anymore." " You should have come to me" " I feel like I'm not doing anything." " I accepted what happened to us" " You accepted it?" "I accepted it because we didn't have a choice." "But now we have a choice." "Now I can prove that I'm as American as anybody else." "You just get smarter by the minute, don't you, Lane?" "Do you understand how much shame you've brought our family?" " Lane, that's enough." " I need to do this." "I need to tell him this." "I'm the only one in here who's not afraid to say what I think." "Lyle." "You lost a scholarship." "Big deal." "Everyone in here has lost something, Lyle." "LANE:" "And no one complains." "No one says anything, no one cries, except you." "Only you." "You know what?" "You go." "Go fight." "You go over there you get yourself killed." "See what that proves." "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "One thousand stitches." "EMI:" "One thousand mothers here have each sewn one red stitch." "This, for my son." "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "Lane." "EMI:" "As long as you wear this senninbari around your waist you'll be protected from harm." "Thanks, Mom." "Thinking what I'm thinking?" "I doubt that very much, Mack." "I know they're gonna be killing Krauts and not their own but don't make no sense letting them join our Army." "LANE:" "I will wear this with pride." "And the thought of you all of you, will remind me of why I'm there." "LANE:" "Of what I'm fighting for." "And thanks for coming to see me off." "LANE:" "I appreciate it." "So I guess this is it." "Bye, Mom." "[EMI SIGHS]" "LANE:" "I'll be fine." " Yes." "Yes." "Dad." "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "I am what I am because of you." "[TRUCK ENGINE STARTS]" "GIRL 1:" "Bye, Lane." "GIRL 1:" "Bye." "GIRL 2:" "Bye." "MAN:" "Come back soon." "[GIRLS SINGING "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL"]" "[MAN THUMPS TRUCK AND SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]" "[LYLE PLAYING "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL" ON SAXOPHONE]" "EMI:" "Kazuo?" "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "[EMI HUMMING]" "[KAZ SINGING IN JAPANESE]" "REPORTER:" "Camp Shelby, Mississippi." "The Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team in training preparing to fight for their country and the American ideals that are a part of their upbringing." "Democracy and equality of opportunity regardless of race, creed, color or ancestry." "Their spirit is typified by their slogan of "Go for Broke."" "Meaning "shoot the works, risk everything, go all out, never let up."" "Go for broke indeed." " Go for broke." " Go for broke." " Go for broke." " Go for broke." "MAN 1:" "Go for broke." "MAN 2:" "Go for broke." "WOMAN:" "Go for broke." "Go for broke." "[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON SAXOPHONE AND PIANO]" "[DOOR OPENS]" "BILLY:" "Katie." "BILLY:" "Katie, you in here?" "KATIE:" "Yeah, I'm just here." "I, uh, got off a little early, so if you're done now, I can drive us." "Oh." "Okay." "I just have to finish cleaning up a couple things back here." "Where are your Jap girls?" "They left a little while ago." "I'll just" " I'll meet you at the truck." "I'll be there in a minute." "All right." "[KATIE  LYLE LAUGHING]" "EMI:" "Oh, Lyle." "Lyle, come here." "Come." "Did you see this in the camp paper?" "The Quakers are gonna offer a scholarship." ""One player from the camp league all expenses paid, to the University of Delaware."" "LYLE:" "Whoever wins this can get out of here, go to college?" "EMI:" "Yes." "[WHISPERING] He's here." "Tell him." "Have you seen the paper this morning?" "If the Quakers will offer this scholarship then I can win this and I can get out of here." "Did you hear what I said?" "I can get this." "You know that." "Now I asked you before, you said no to me." " Kazuo, what he's trying to say is" " Emi." "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "I just want a chance for this." "LYLE:" "I know that I haven't been" " No booze." "Yeah, yeah, okay." "KAZ:" "No gambling." "All right." "No seeing that girl." "What?" "What does she have to do with anything?" "Everyone in camp knows." "Everyone is talking." "I don't care what they say." "I say." "No hakujin." "Kaz, it could be a chance for him." "Quiet." "Lyle." "Lyle." "EMI:" "If your father won't let you play on his team there are other teams to play for." " You can" " You tell my son to turn his back on me?" "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "[EMI SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "No." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "Next batter." "[BAMBINO PLAYING UKULELE]" "All right." "Whoo!" "What you get?" "What you get?" "Give me one, bro." " Strike one." " Aw." "Come on, brother." "You need some glasses." "BAMBINO:" "Strike." "BAMBINO:" "Give me another one." " Eh, never could stand Hawaiian music." "Well, you know da kine jazz?" "Give me one big headache, bro." "[CROWD GROANS]" "MAN:" "Foul ball." "BAMBINO:" "Jeez." " It was a long strike." " You know aloha means "hello," yeah?" "Ha-ha." "Whoo." "BAMBINO:" "What you get?" "What you get?" "Whoa." "Whoo!" "Okay." "All right." "All right." "You know, it also means "I love you," brother." "What you get?" "What you get?" "[BAMBINO GRUNTS]" "Hey, doesn't it also mean goodbye?" "[BAMBINO CHUCKLES]" "Aloha." "I had an idea about when I win the scholarship." "How do you know you're gonna win it?" " I'll win it." " Ha-ha-ha." "But when I get out of here, I was thinking that you would come with me." " Come with you?" " Yeah." "I've been thinking about it a lot." "I mean, you're a good musician, Katie." "A really good musician, but you need to learn more." "You need to play with other people you need to, you know, get more experience." "Then maybe one day, you know you could play professionally or you could teach." "Uh, Lyle, I'm-- That school is in Delaware." "I've never been outside of Abraham in my life." "Yeah, but that is the point, Katie." "You've got to get out of Abraham." "There's nothing there." "Delaware has this really good music department." "And I already got you an application." "We" "I want you to come with me." "Yes." "I will." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "BILLY:" "Ed, guess what." "Yankees are looking for a catcher." "Dapper Don might be coming down here." "I don't give a shit about that." "What's the matter with you?" "I always figured Katie and my boy Jackie would be together someday." "And I even came to think of her as my own daughter." "Yeah, and?" "Now I don't." "You've been seeing some Jap?" "What?" "You've been seeing some Jap boy?" " Billy, what--?" " Answer the question, Katie." " No." " No?" "You haven't been seeing that Jap, Nomura?" "No." "No, ha-ha, of course not." "Well, what Ed heard is wrong." "BILLY:" "I know you wouldn't do that." "I know you would never do anything like that." "BILLY:" "Not to me, not to our family." "Not to the memory of your brother." "I spoke to Director Watson about how to ease tension between us and the people in town." "We had an idea to have a game between your baseball team and our Topaz team." "Maybe we have" "No." "Nobody on our team would ever set foot in that camp." "JOE:" "Uh, delivery's running late, uh..." "They just called, said they'll be about 15, 20 minutes." "I got a package to pick up at the post office." "Take care of their order when the delivery comes." "A basket for you and your wife." "JOE:" "Thank you, Kaz." "This town is sick to death of you people." "Why don't you go back where you came from?" "I'm from Los Angeles." "[GRUNTING]" "LYLE:" "No." "Get off." "You hungry?" "Go ahead, eat." "Eat!" "Hey!" "Hey, knock it off!" "The hell are you doing out here, Nomura?" "Nomura?" "This that kid?" "[LYLE SCREAMS]" "BILLY:" "All right, that's enough." "Break it up." "Break it up." "Come here." "Break it up!" "Everybody, go on." "Get out of here." "Get out of here." "BILLY:" "Take it home, Ed." "All right." "Okay." " Are you okay?" "LYLE:" "Yeah." " Okay?" "BILLY:" "Get him in the jeep." "LYLE:" "No, I'm fine." " Okay." "SHIRLEY:" "Who told you that one?" "Oh." " Mary Beth." "[SHIRLEY CHUCKLES]" "We had a little trouble in town today." "One of the prisoners tried to run off." "Run off?" "Where are they gonna run to?" " There's nothing around for 300 miles." " He wasn't trying to escape." "He came into town with us to get some supplies and then he decided he'd just wander off and get himself a burger." "That Nomura kid." "What did you do to him?" "BILLY:" "Me?" "Nothing." "Couple fellas in town roughed him up a little bit." " Excuse me for just a second." " Sit your ass down." "You're not going back to that camp, Katie." "BILLY:" "Not tomorrow, not the next day." "Not ever." " What?" " You've been fired from your job." "BILLY:" "You try to go back into that camp, the guards will stop you." "[DOOR SLAMS]" "[BILLY SIGHS]" "Heard you didn't get the scholarship because of your injury." "NORI:" "That's too bad." "Things happen." "Whatever happens, we have to deal with it." "Tough luck, kid." "Deal with it." "REPORTER:" "The Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team moving up from their battles in Italy into the Vosges mountains in France fighting in tough terrain against seasoned German forces trying to rescue a lost battalion of fellow Americans." "Mission after mission, these stalwart fighting men are proving themselves bringing honor to themselves and the nation that is proud to call them citizens." "Hey, Billy." "You know anybody in the Texas 36th?" "No, I think Mack knows a bunch of guys with them." "Well, the Krauts cut them off up in the Vosges mountains in France." "They got ripped up bad." "None of our other guys could get up the mountain to help them." "Except for them." "The 442nd, they took 800 casualties to save 211 guys in the 36th." "These guys they're all from Topaz." "Barber says to her, "Sweetheart, you're gonna get hair on your Twinkie."" "She says, "I know." "I'm gonna get boobies too."" "[ED LAUGHS]" "Just got off the bus from Phoenix." "On my way to Topaz." "[LANE SIGHS]" "Thought I'd get cleaned up before seeing my folks." "The back's kind of raggedy so think it could use a trim right now." "Billy gets called up, we're gonna be missing a pretty big bat next year." "Hmm." "Not gonna be as easy..." " ...to win a championship again." "JOE:" "Mm-hm." "Still, as long as Grover's with us, you know, we got a good arm there." "I'm kind of in a hurry here." "An MP's picking me up in a couple minutes." "I don't cut Jap hair." "NORRIS:" "Lieutenant Nomura." "Corporal Norris, here to pick you up." "At ease." "Welcome back, sir." "Thank you." "Hi, Mom." "[EMI SOBBING]" "Dad." "[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE]" "KAZ:" "Lane, we kept everything." "He wanted to show you how he kept them." "And I was telling him that he was acting like a librarian." "And the news." "[LANE CHUCKLES]" "And I really think that he can still get a new job as a librarian." "[DOOR OPENS]" "Hey." "I heard you were back." "Hi, Lyle." "Ahem." "Uh, how've you been?" "Fine." "I went around to neighbors and got everything you like." "EMI:" "When Mrs. Watanabe came with the mochi I thought it was perfect." "I have everything I wanted." "I thought you would've lost more weight." "You'd be like skinny, skinny, skinny." "Now you're gonna have home cooking again." "Sounds good." "KATIE:" "I can't stand it anymore." "I'm doing nothing." "I can't play music, I can't come here." "I'm just stuck in that house here in Abraham." "I have to do something." "[KATIE SIGHS]" "I'm going away." "What?" "I am going away on my own." "Where are you going?" "I'm going to Delaware." "To school." "I got accepted." "No, that wasn't the plan." "You were going there because I was." "I applied because of you, but now it" "I mean, this is an amazing chance for me." "You're the one who told me I could do this, I could get out of Abraham." "It was you." "You were going there with me." "I can't see you here anyway." "BILLY:" "Prisoner, step away from the fence." "Civilian on the outside, get back away from the fence." "Civilian and prisoner, both of you, step back away from the fence." "NORRIS:" "Hey." "How's your brother adjusting to being back?" "Uh, he's doing okay." " He's a hell of a guy." " Yeah." "Hey, I'm not talking about the Silver Star or any of that." "That day I picked him up, we were driving back he never said a word about what happened in that barbershop." "What barbershop?" "Didn't even faze him enough to bother mentioning it to you, huh?" "What are you talking about?" "Just a haircut." "That's Ed Tully." "He's a barber in town." "Director Watson got permission for us to go outside of camp." "We are going to their park." "Their home field." "Ha-ha." "That's great." "Because that is the guy, Dad." "That day in town?" "This was the guy." "LYLE:" "I have to be a part of this." "KATIE:" "Mama?" "SHIRLEY:" "Mm-hm?" "KATIE:" "Um..." "[KATIE CLEARS THROAT]" "I've been accepted by a college." "I'm gonna go." "Katie." "Okay." "Delaware State University." "What--?" "You wanna go to college in Delaware?" "What?" "College?" "You never talked about anything like this before." "I have money saved from my job." "I'll use that to pay for everything." "You're not going." "You're staying in Abraham." "When I get called up, you're moving with us." " Billy." "KATIE:" "I've made up my mind." " I'm not asking for anything from you" " You're staying with us." "When we go to New York, we're all" "I spent my life hearing about how things are gonna change." " How we're gonna go to New York." "SHIRLEY:" "All right, Katie, just" "No, Mama, no." "I don't wanna wait anymore for anything." "I just wanna go." "I wanna do what I wanna do." "BILLY:" "You are not leaving home, Katie." "You are not going off to school." "You are not going back to that camp." " You are not seeing that Jap" " He's not a Jap!" "[KATIE SCOFFS]" "You look at him and you see the people who killed Billy Jr." "Well, Lyle wasn't over there." "None of the people at those camps were." " We're not talking about that." "KATIE:" "What are we talking about, huh?" "All this time, talking about them." "How they caused all this, how they killed Billy." "Why don't we talk about what it really is?" "Why Billy Jr. was even there to begin with, why he wasn't here at home." " Katie, that is enough." " All those years trying to make him like you." "Trying to make him be you." "Forcing him to play baseball." "Making him practice hours and hours and hours." " He never wanted it." "BILLY:" "You don't know what he wanted." "BILLY:" "You don't know anything about it." " He hated it." "He hated you!" "KATIE:" "He couldn't stand being here anymore until finally he ran away to the Navy." "That is why he was there." "That is why he was killed." "It was you." "You who killed him." " Shut up!" "Shut up!" "SHIRLEY:" "Billy!" " Shut up!" " Billy, no!" "No!" "[KATIE CRYING AND SHIRLEY PANTING]" "LYLE:" "My father had set up the game with the Abraham team because he wanted us to have a chance to prove ourselves to the people of the town." "When I told him I had to be there he never brought up any of the things that had happened between us in the past." "All he said was, "You'll have to work hard to be ready."" "We're gonna challenge them to a bet on the game, okay?" "All of us together." "All it's gonna take is one quarter." "One quarter will do it." "NORI:" "Come on, give me a quarter." "Look, one measly quarter, that's all I need." "NORI:" "One measly quarter each." "Okay?" "BAMBINO:" "Whoo!" "Sweet, kid." "NORI:" "Put your money on your team." "BAMBINO:" "Give me another one." "Give me another one." "Once again." "Once again." "Come on." "NORI:" "One quarter, your bet." "Our bet on our team." "All of us in one bet, together." "How's that?" "NORI:" "Drop it on in." "Attaboy." "You got it." "We're gonna get there." "Thank you very much." "[BAMBINO GROANS]" "[CHATTERING]" "ANNOUNCER:" "Welcome to Skinner Field, home of your Abraham Bees." "We've got a special exhibition game between the Bees and a team from the Topaz Relocation Camp." "Quite a few people from the camp came out to take a look." "Probably the first time they've ever seen a real game." "A little birdie put it in my ear today that Dapper Don Lemon the scout of the New York Yankees, is coming by today." "ANNOUNCER:" "Y'all know what happened last time Don was here." "Yep, that's right." "Jimmy Hollister was called up to the big club." "Our Jimmy Hollister." "We decided to treat this like any other day, act like we didn't know he was coming." "I heard he drives a big fancy car." "A brand-new Roadmaster, and he doesn't even like driving." "[SHIRLEY CHUCKLES]" " What the hell is this?" " Twenty-five hundred bucks." " What?" " Ten thousand quarters." "Every person in camp is in on it." "Twenty-five hundred dollars?" "That's a new Cadillac." "Yeah." "We like to gamble." "Billy." "These are the guys that wanna put money on the game." "All right, how much?" "I'm in." "Two thousand five hundred bucks." "[ED SCOFFS]" " What, $2000?" "NORI:" "What?" "What's the matter, you scared?" "Huh, you yellow?" "You don't even belong on the same field as us." "There's no way we can come up with that much." "And you guys are gonna back down?" "Come on, what have you got that's worth 2500 that can cover the bet?" "Little slants just trying to show us how rich they are." "I have an idea." "ANNOUNCER:" "This is a league game." "It was decided that a coin toss..." " ...would determine which will bat first." " Topaz, you will call the coin toss." "Heads." "Heads it is." "We bat last." "Topaz has elected to bat last." "ANNOUNCER:" "Looks like the Topaz team has decided to let the Bees lead this thing off." "KAZ:" "Everybody we know what we have to do to win today." "But today is not just about winning." "Today is about dignity." "Dignity of the game, and the dignity we have here." "Enough." "Let's play ball." "You heard him." "Who are we?" " Topaz!" " Yellow!" "Let's go, guys." "ANNOUNCER:" "These guys are little, and I mean little." "It's almost like looking at a bunch of midgets out there." "Personally, I always get a kick out of midgets." "You see a midget, you gotta chuckle." "[CROWD LAUGHS]" "Hey, your Abraham Bees leadoff hitter, first baseman Ed Tully, steps up." "MAN 1:" "Come on, Ed." "MAN 2:" "Let's go, Ed." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "Do that again." "Throw at me." "Throw at me again." "Come on." "ANNOUNCER:" "That had more than "brush back" written on it." "The pitcher kid winds." "UMPIRE:" "Strike!" "ED:" "What?" "Attaboy, Lyle, attaboy." "Pitcher fella has a decent-looking fastball." "UMPIRE:" "Two!" "ANNOUNCER:" "There's a fastball right down the middle." "UMPIRE:" "Out!" "ANNOUNCER:" "Strike three." "He struck him out." "And that's one down." "Next up, we've got catcher Billy Burrell." "We're all expecting Billy to be called up." "No one deserves it more than him." "I've never known a player who respected the game more." "MAN 3:" "Mash it, Billy." "MAN 4:" "Go, Billy!" "ANNOUNCER:" "My hat's off to Billy." "I couldn't be happier for him." "UMPIRE:" "Strike!" "BILLY:" "Come on, that's outside." "[NORI WHISTLES]" "Hey, it's a little different when you both have to play fair now, huh?" "Just a little bit." "Just a little bit." "This time, it's straight up." "WOMAN:" "Come on." "BOY:" "Let's go, Burrell!" "Straight up." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "ANNOUNCER:" "Down the line, hooking..." "ANNOUNCER:" "Foul." "UMPIRE:" "Foul ball!" "UMPIRE:" "Okay." "MAN 4:" "Come on, Billy." "UMPIRE:" "You're out!" "NORI:" "Beautiful, beautiful." "That's the way to do it, now." "That's the way." "ANNOUNCER:" "These guys have never seen anything like Grover." "Grover really had a shot a few years back." "He told me that Don Lemon himself came to take a look at him." "Talked to him about working on his curve ball." "Coming to the plate this must be, let's see, Takeshita." "UMPIRE:" "Ball one." "UMPIRE:" "Strike one." "UMPIRE:" "Strike two." "ANNOUNCER:" "Grover winds." "UMPIRE:" "You're out!" " And down he goes." "ANNOUNCER:" "As next batter, this pitcher kid's coming up." "Come on, Grover, come on." "ANNOUNCER:" "A little tap down the line." "That's two down." "Let's forget about this exhibition game." "Teach these guys a real lesson." "ANNOUNCER:" "This big fella, I don't know what he's doing with them." "He looks colored to me." "ANNOUNCER:" "I guess he's married to one of them, or got some of their blood." "Scorecard says he calls himself Bambino." "Got no comment on that." "Grover winds and..." "Oh, hey." "They don't have fastballs like that where they come from." "First inning: one, two, three." "Here comes the pitch." "UMPIRE:" "Strike!" "ANNOUNCER:" "Down he goes." "ANNOUNCER:" "Grab some pine." "UMPIRE:" "Out!" "ANNOUNCER:" "Take your seat." "UMPIRE:" "Out!" "ANNOUNCER:" "Grover's working a no-hitter." "It's damn near impossible to tell them apart." "Top of the fourth, and Nomura-- Nom" " Nom" " Nom" "Whatever-his-name-is delivers, and" "ANNOUNCER:" "They don't have any bats, but their defense is looking good out there." "Where is he?" "JOE:" "Do you want me to go look around and see if anyone's seen him?" "Oh, would you, Joe?" "I'd appreciate that." "ANNOUNCER:" "This Topaz kid, now, I don't know if he's throwing some special imported pitches or what but he's got himself a shutout going as well." "UMPIRE:" "Strike three." "You're out." "NORI:" "We call that his radio ball." "You heard it, but didn't see it." "Did you, sergeant-san?" "[NORI CACKLES]" "ANNOUNCER:" "Grover winds and..." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "Bambino, I love you!" "NORI:" "Yeah, Bambino!" "ANNOUNCER:" "My, oh, my, see it fly." "ANNOUNCER:" "The Topaz team goes up, 1 -0." "Go!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "That calls for a little liquid refreshment." "JOE:" "He's here." " Oh, ha-ha-ha." "Thank God." "SHIRLEY:" "Billy, he's here." " He just got here." " What?" "He always reserves a seat when he comes, and Joe just went to find out where he is." "Oh..." " New York Yankees." " New York Yankees." "[SHIRLEY LAUGHS]" "ANNOUNCER:" "Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the seventh-inning stretch." "Feel like you could use a haircut?" "Don't forget about Ed's Barbershop." "Cut it right, cut it at Ed's." "And join me in singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."" "[ANNOUNCER  CROWD SINGING "TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME"]" "I bought my bus ticket." "I leave for Delaware day after tomorrow." "That's great, Katie." "I won't go if you don't want me to." "No." "No, I want you to, I do." " Really?" " Yeah, really." "Oh, God." "I'm so scared, Lyle." "I have never been anywhere by myself." "Yeah, I know." "It's nothing to be afraid of, all right?" "You're gonna be fine." "I just keep thinking about maybe next year, maybe you could come, you could join me." "We could be in Delaware..." "[SHIRLEY LAUGHING]" "[KATIE CLEARS THROAT]" "Mom, this is Lyle." "This is my mom." "LYLE:" "Hello, Mrs. Burrell." "It's a pleasure to meet you." "It's nice to meet you." "Mom, Dad." "This is Katie." "Hello." "And her mother and father." "ANNOUNCER:" "Well, here we are in the top of the ninth and our Bees are trailing, 1 -0." "One on, two outs, and now we got Ed Tully coming up." "Ed hits a slow dribble off the first-base line." "[GRUNTING]" "Look out." "BAMBINO:" "Whoa." "Whoa, whoa." "What, you wanna hit somebody?" "Come hit me." "Come hit me, man." "You wanna hit somebody?" "UMPIRE:" "Hey, catcher, get back behind the plate." "ANNOUNCER:" "That's Ed Tully style baseball." "MAN 1:" "Stay on the base, Ed." "[CROWD APPLAUDING]" "Next up, we got catcher Billy Burrell." "ANNOUNCER:" "Nomura's made Billy look bad today." "Struck him out three times." "I can tell you right now, Billy does not wanna strike out to end this game." "MAN 2:" "Go Burrell!" "ANNOUNCER:" "Two on, two outs." "This game is on the line right here, folks." "MAN 3:" "Knock it out of the park, Burrell!" "[CROWD CHEERING]" "ANNOUNCER:" "Bombs away!" "Billy just hit a three-run homer." "It doesn't get any better than this, fans." "I'm sorry, sugar." "I'm really sorry." "SHIRLEY:" "What is it, Joe?" "What's the matter?" "JOE:" "I found out where Don Lemon reserved his seat." "Right over there." "JOE:" "I made a mistake." "Don Lemon isn't here." "That's a game winner, Billy Burrell!" "SHIRLEY:" "That's a winner!" "ANNOUNCER:" "One swing of the bat and your Abraham Bees have taken control of this game." "We can just about call it a day here." "Hey, everybody." "KAZ:" "I don't wanna see any heads hanging down." "Every one of you." "I am proud of you." "BAMBINO:" "We're all here, yeah?" "PLAYER:" "Yeah." "BAMBINO:" "We're all here, yeah?" "PLAYERS:" "Yeah." "Let's give them something to cheer about, guys." " Who are we?" " Topaz." " Who are we?" " Topaz." "Let's go, let's go!" "Well, here we are." "Bottom of the ninth." "Your Abraham Bees 3, Topaz 1." "All right, let's get this thing over with." "Three and out." "ANNOUNCER:" "Grover looks fresh as a daisy out there." "They barely touched him today." "UMPIRE:" "Out." "ANNOUNCER:" "And down he goes." "Right, that's one." "Okay, we got one here." "ANNOUNCER:" "Grover had that one slip against the big colored guy but other than that, he's thrown a gem." "UMPIRE:" "You're out!" " All right, we got two." "All right." "It's all over but the shouting now." "ANNOUNCER:" "We're down to our last out here and I gotta tell you, it was more of a game than what I expected." "This Topaz team managed to make a decent contest of it." "BILLY:" "Bunt!" "ANNOUNCER:" "Drag bunt down the first-base line." "No play at first." "[MUTTERS] Shit." "Damn it." "PLAYER:" "Yeah!" "Come on, now, come on." "Where were you?" "Come on." "ANNOUNCER:" "Now, this next batter, he's 0-for-3." "Gone down on strikes every time he's been up." "[CROWD SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "ANNOUNCER:" "Grover's got him terrified of that high-and-inside pitch." "And I gotta say, I can't blame the little fella." "[CROWD GROANS]" "Look out." "That's gotta hurt." "Takeshita takes a first "base-a."" "Pardon my Italian." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "That puts the tying run on base, folks." "Still got a chance at that 2500." "There's not gonna be any 2500." "NORI:" "I'm not saying we're not gonna win." "What I mean is we're not going to make 2500." "They don't have the money to put up for the bet." "So, what's the bet for now?" "A haircut." "A what?" "Our 2500 against a haircut." "That's ridiculous." "Ha-ha." "Is it?" "You want your quarter back?" "I'll give you your quarter back." "I'll take care of it personally." "And anybody else who wants their quarter back." "ANNOUNCER:" "Two on, two outs." "The Bees better quit fooling around and finish these guys off." "[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]" "[CROWD MURMURING AND THEN ANNOUNCER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "NORRIS:" "I'd like a piece of that bet." " You're on." " Come on, Topaz, let's win this thing!" "EMI:" "We've got a bet to win!" "BOY:" "Let's go, Topaz!" "MAN 1:" "We can do it!" "WOMAN 1:" "Let's go, Topaz!" "MAN 2:" "Come on, let's win this thing." "BOY:" "Come on, Topaz!" "MAN 3:" "Let's go." "WOMAN 2:" "Let's win it, Topaz." "LANE:" "Lyle!" "Go for broke, Lyle!" "Go for broke." "Go for broke, Lyle." "Go for broke." "Go for broke." " Go for broke!" " Go for broke!" " Go for broke!" " Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "WOMAN 3:" "Go for broke!" "BAMBINO:" "Come on, go for broke!" "WOMAN 4:" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "ANNOUNCER:" "Something's going on with the Topaz fans." "Go for broke!" "ANNOUNCER:" "They're yelling something over there." "Being pretty insistent about it too." "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "ANNOUNCER:" "There's a line drive down the line." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "One run's gonna score." "The second one's rounding third, and he'll score." "The throw comes into the plate." "The runner heading for third." "And he's safe." "Safe at third." "We got a tie game, 3-3, bottom of the ninth." "Coming up is the big colored fella, their so-called Bambino." "Billy Burrell and Ed Tully going to the mound to talk to Grover." "He's their only real hitter, so keep it away from him." "Heck, no." "I say we go after him." "Come on." "And, Grover, don't screw it up." "I got a lot of plans for that $2500 and I sure as hell ain't giving no haircut." "Come on!" "ANNOUNCER:" "This is what it's all about:" "pitcher versus batter." "Our best pitcher against their best batter." "Grover getting the sign." "He's gonna throw some smoke, I can tell you that." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "Down the line." "Hooking..." "UMPIRE:" "Foul ball." "ANNOUNCER:" "Foul!" "ANNOUNCER:" "Grover better bear down here." "Grover getting his sign." "Come on." "Come on, Grover." "UMPIRE:" "Out!" "[CROWD CHEERING]" "What?" "No, no, no." "He didn't tag me!" "He missed me." "Went right over my head." " No tag!" "No tag!" "He missed the tag!" "LYLE:" "Yeah, no tag." "Listen to me." "UMPIRE:" "The tag is good!" "LYLE:" "He couldn't have tagged me." " He was safe." "UMPIRE:" "Catcher made the tag." " Hell of a play." "Way to hang in." " Goddamn it!" " This runner is out." "[YELLING IN JAPANESE]" "LYLE:" "His hands were way up here." "KAZ:" "Missed him!" "He was safe!" "LYLE:" "No way he could tag me." "I was safe." "UMPIRE:" "Tag was good!" "Runner is out." " We'll go get them this time." " Three-three tie, we go to extra innings." "LYLE:" "He missed me." "Lyle, enough." "Enough." "BILLY:" "Did you touch the plate?" "What?" "Did you touch the plate?" "Yeah, I touched the plate." "Of course you did." "Game's over." "[ED SCOFFS]" "Tie game, extra innings." "Let's go to the dugout." " He was safe." "ED:" "What are you talking about?" "The ump saw, I saw it, everybody saw it." "He's out." "Come on" "I tagged him." "I made the tag, but I dropped the ball." " He's safe." "Run scores." " I didn't see you drop the ball, catcher." "I know you didn't." "I did." "Call it." "Catcher dropped the ball after the tag." "Run is good at home!" "No!" "No, you can't do that!" "You can't change the call." " Game is over." "Topaz wins, 4-3." "ED:" "He was out." "You called it." "ED:" "What the hell is that?" "!" " Topaz wins?" "LYLE:" "Topaz wins!" "We won!" " We won!" "[IN UNISON] We won!" "Topaz wins?" "ANNOUNCER:" "He's saying Topaz won." "[CROWD CHEERING]" "[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!" "Go for broke!"