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Author:

Fitts, Robert K., 1965- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

309 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Subject:

Green, Guy W.
Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945)
World War (1939-1945)
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--Evacuation and relocation, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1496213483
9781496213488

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1119121360

LCCN:

2019027695

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)