Robert K Fitts

Issei Baseball

The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers

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Produktbeschreibung

Issei Baseball focuses on a small group of men who formed the first professional and semiprofessional Japanese baseball clubs. Through these men, Robert K. Fitts examines the history of early Japanese American baseball and the Japanese immigrant experience.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781496213488
• ISBN-10: 1496213483
• Artikelnr.: 58016886

Autorenporträt

Robert K. Fitts is the author of Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer (Nebraska, 2015), Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Baseball (Nebraska, 2008), and Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan (Nebraska, 2012), winner of the Society of American Baseball Research’s Seymour Medal.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Recurring Japanese Characters
Introduction
1. Saisho the Dreamer
2. The National Pastime in Japan
3. The New World
4. Issei Baseball
5. Waseda Arrives
6. Waseda Tour Continues
7. Guy Green’s 1906 Japanese Base Ball Club
8. The 1906 Barnstorming Tour
9. The Mikado’s Japanese Base Ball Team
10. Nanka and the Japanese Base Ball Association
11. “Japanese Invasion”
12. Ballplayers and Diplomats
13. Barnstorming across America
14. End of a Dream
15. Japanese American Baseball Comes of Age
16. Incarceration
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Schedules and Game Results
Appendix B: Known Issei Baseball Clubs, 1904–10
Appendix C: Partial Rosters of Selected Issei Teams
Notes
Bibliography
Index