Issei baseball : the story of the first Japanese American ballplayers / Robert K. Fitts.
Title:
Issei baseball : the story of the first Japanese American ballplayers / Robert K. Fitts.
ISBN:
9781496213488
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Physical Description:
309 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- Saisho the Dreamer -- The national pastime in Japan -- The New World -- Issei baseball -- Waseda arrives -- Waseda tour continues -- Guy Green's 1906 Japanese base ball club -- The 1906 Barnstorming Tour -- The Mikado's Japanese base ball team -- Nanka and the Japanese Base Ball Association -- "Japanese Invasion" -- Ballplayers and diplomats -- Barnstorming across America -- End of a dream -- Japanese American baseball comes of age -- Incarceration.
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OCLC Number:
on1119121360
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