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.
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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.