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Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer - Couverture souple

Staples Jr., Bill

 
9780786461349: Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0786461349 ISBN 13 : 9780786461349
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2011

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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/.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786461349
ISBN 13 
9780786461349
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
282
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