Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan

Fitts, Robert K.

ISBN 10: 0803245815 / ISBN 13: 9780803245815

Edité par University of Nebraska Press, 2013

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This was the first detailed account of the doomed attempt to reconcile the United States and Japan through the 1934 All American baseball tour-which included Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Fox and future secret agent Moe berg. In very good condition. I have more than 70 books on International Baseball in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan
• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0803245815
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780803245815
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • international baseball

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Synopsis

In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, and Connie Mack barnstormed across the Land of the Rising Sun. Hundreds of thousands of fans, many waving Japanese and American flags, welcomed the team with shouts of "Banzai! Banzai, Babe Ruth!" The all-stars stayed for a month, playing 18 games, spawning professional baseball in Japan, and spreading goodwill.
Politicians on both sides of the Pacific hoped that the amity generated by the tour--and the two nations' shared love of the game--could help heal their growing political differences. But the Babe and baseball could not overcome Japan's growing nationalism, as a bloody coup d'état by young army officers and an assassination attempt by the ultranationalist War Gods Society jeopardized the tour's success. A tale of international intrigue, espionage, attempted murder, and, of course, baseball, Banzai Babe Ruth is the first detailed account of the doomed attempt to reconcile the United States and Japan through the 1934 All American baseball tour. Robert K. Fitts provides a wonderful story about baseball, nationalism, and American and Japanese cultural history.

À propos de l?auteur

Robert K. Fitts graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received a PhD from Brown University. Originally trained as an archeologist of colonial America, Fitts left that field to focus on his passion, Japanese baseball. He is also the author of Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game and Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball (Nebraska, 2008).