The Seattle Mariners are hoping they made a big splash with the hiring of Major League Baseball's first Asian American manager Don Wakamatsu.

That may be true. The only thing for certain, however, is there will be a lot of attention on the rebuilding franchise and its new field general.

Wakamatsu is a fourth-generation Japanese-American whose father was born in a World War II internment camp. His grandparents were taken from their home in Oregon during the war, and returned to the state when the war ended.