Issei baseball : the story of the first Japanese American ballplayers /
Fitts, Robert K., 1965-
Issei baseball : the story of the first Japanese American ballplayers / Robert K. Fitts. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781496220899
2019027695
Green, Guy W.
Baseball players--Japan--Biography.
Baseball teams--History--United States--20th century.
Baseball--History.--Japan
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.
Electronic Books.
GV863 / .I874 2020
Issei baseball : the story of the first Japanese American ballplayers / Robert K. Fitts. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781496220899
2019027695
Green, Guy W.
Baseball players--Japan--Biography.
Baseball teams--History--United States--20th century.
Baseball--History.--Japan
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.
Electronic Books.
GV863 / .I874 2020