Wally Yonamine : the man who changed Japanese baseball / Robert K. Fitts ; foreword by Daniel K. Inouye.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitts, Robert K., 1965-
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:
Yonamine, Wally K., > 1925-2011.
Baseball players > Japan > Biography.
Baseball players > United States > Biography.
Baseball > Japan.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xv, 339 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Just a country boy from Olowalu, Maui"
  • Football star
  • The San Francisco 49ers
  • Lucky breaks
  • Of Seals and Bees
  • A winter of uncertainty
  • Debut
  • The Jackie Robinson of Japan
  • Settling in
  • Lessons from Santa Maria
  • Gaijin Dageki Oh--foreign batting champion
  • World travelers
  • Hard labor
  • Lucky seven
  • Young Giants
  • End of an era
  • Coach
  • Yonamine Kantoku
  • Sometimes nice guys do finish first
  • Suketto
  • Hall of fame.