Sami Roe

A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.

American Pastime tells a poignant story set against the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Rounded up and uprooted from their everyday lives, they remained loyal to the United States and ironically turned to that most American of sports - baseball - as a way to deal with their plight.