Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers - Couverture rigide

Fitts, Robert K.

 
9781496213488: Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers
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ISBN 10 : 1496213483 ISBN 13 : 9781496213488
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2020

Synopsis

2021 SABR Baseball Research Award
2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal Winner

Baseball has been called America's true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese American baseball, Harry Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda, Tozan Masko, Kiichi Suzuki, and others--young men who came to the United States to start a new life but found bigotry and discrimination.

In 1905 they formed a baseball club in Los Angeles and began playing local amateur teams. Inspired by the Waseda University baseball team's 1905 visit to the West Coast, they became the first Japanese professional baseball club on either side of the Pacific and barnstormed across the American Midwest in 1906 and 1911. Tens of thousands came to see "how the minions of the Mikado played the national pastime." As they played, the Japanese earned the respect of their opponents and fans, breaking down racial stereotypes. Baseball became a bridge between the two cultures, bringing Japanese and Americans together through the shared love of the game.

Issei Baseball focuses on the small group of men who formed the first professional and semiprofessional Japanese baseball clubs. These players' story tells the history of early Japanese American baseball, including the placement of Saisho, Kitsuse, and their families in relocation camps during World War II and the Japanese immigrant experience.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1496213483
ISBN 13 
9781496213488
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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