Bill Staples

Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer

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Produktbeschreibung

While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900-1968). A talented player who excelled at all nine positions, Zenimura was also a respected manager and would become the Japanese American community's baseball ambassador. He worked tirelessly to promote the game at home and abroad, leading goodwill trips to Asia, helping to negotiate tours of Japan by Negro League All-Stars and Babe Ruth, and establishing a 32-team league behind the barbed wire of Arizona's Gila River Internment Camp during World War II. This first biography of the "Father of Japanese-American Baseball" delivers a thorough and fascinating account of Zenimura's life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780786461349
• ISBN-10: 0786461349
• Artikelnr.: 32738792

Autorenporträt

Bill Staples, Jr., is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), a board member of the Nisei Baseball Research Project, and a past speaker at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He lives in Chandler, Arizona. Visit his website at www.zenimura.com/.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Foreword by Don Wakamatsu     
Preface    
Introduction     
1. Athlete in the Making (1900-1920)     
2. Breaking Down Barriers (1920-1924)     
3. Only the Ball Was Small (1925-1929)     
4. The Twilight Era (1930-1941)     
5. Relocating and Rebuilding Hope (1942-1943)     
6. A Taste of Freedom (1944)     
7. Rounding Third and Heading Home (1945)     
8. Passing the Torch (1946-1968)     
Appendix A: Select Box Scores     
Appendix B: Who's Who in Zenimura's Career     
Appendix C: F.A.C. 1924 Tour of Japan     
Appendix D: Nisei League vs. Negro League     
Appendix E: Butte Baseball League Statistics, 1943-1945     
Appendix F: Zenimura Legacy Timeline     
Appendix G: Japanese American Glossary of Terms     
Notes     
Bibliography     
Index