Robert K Fitts

Wally Yonamine

The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert K. Fitts is the author of Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game, for which he won the 2005 Sporting News¿SABR Award for best baseball research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780803245174
• ISBN-10: 0803245173
• Artikelnr.: 35346844

Autorenporträt

Robert K. Fitts is the author of Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game, for which he won the 2005 Sporting News-SABR Award for best baseball research.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Gamble
1. "Just a Country Boy from Olowalu, Maui"
2. Football Star
3. The San Francisco 49ers
4. Lucky Breaks
5. Of Seals and Bees
6. A Winter of Uncertainty
7. Debut
8. The Jackie Robinson of Japan
9. Settling In
10. Lessons from Santa Maria
11. Gaijin Dageki Oh--Foreign Batting Champion
12. World Travelers
13. Hard Labor
14. Lucky Seven
15. Young Giants
16. End of an Era
17. Coach
18. Yonamine Kantoku
19. Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First
20. Suketto
21. Hall of Fame
Appendix
Bibliographic Essay
Index