Baseball, unlike most sports, has a way of being a mirroring of, or metaphor, to American and Western history. Imperialism, immigration, racism, the rise of celebrity, the rise of personal self-enhancement, gambling, drugs, fashion, you name it. Baseball has this way, even as its popularity on the field as waned, of being reflective of the decades we have lived and the modern times we are in. I find Canadian artist Kellen Hatanaka’s approach to baseball so poetic and historic, and his new show, Everything Gon’ Be Alright This Morning, that is a powerful recreation of elements of the Vancouver Asahi Baseball team, the Japanese-Canadian baseball team of amateur and semi-professional players that was based in Vancouver from 1914 to 1941, to…