The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/slhamlet on 2025-03-13 02:37:01.

Original Title: TIL when Japanese-American Norm Mineta was interned as a child, US authorities confiscated his baseball bat. Later elected to Congress, someone gifted him a $1500 Hank Aaron bat-- which he had to return, since it violated House rules on gifts. Said Mineta: “The damn government’s taken my bat again.”