Issei baseball : the story of the first Japanese American ballplayers / Robert K. Fitts.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitts, Robert K., 1965- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Green, Guy W.
Baseball players > Japan > Biography.
Baseball teams > United States > History > 20th century.
Baseball > Japan > History.
Japan > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans.
Baseball.
Baseball players.
Baseball teams.
Emigration and immigration.
Japanese Americans.
Japan.
United States.
1900-1999
Biographies.
History.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:309 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Saisho the Dreamer
  • The national pastime in Japan
  • The New World
  • Issei baseball
  • Waseda arrives
  • Waseda tour continues
  • The first professionals: Guy Green's 1906 Japanese base ball club
  • The 1906 Barnstorming Tour
  • The Mikado's Japanese base ball team
  • Nanka and the Japanese Base Ball Association
  • "Japanese Invasion"
  • Ballplayers and diplomats
  • Barnstorming across America
  • End of a dream
  • Japanese American baseball comes of age
  • Incarceration.