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Informationen zum Autor Robert K. Fitts is the author of Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game, for which he won the 2005 Sporting News-SABR Award for best baseball research. Klappentext Robert K. Fitts is the author of Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game, for which he won the 2005 Sporting News¿SABR Award for best baseball research. Zusammenfassung Wally Yonamine was both the first Japanese American to play for an NFL franchise and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II. This is the unlikely story of how a shy young man from the sugar plantations of Maui overcame prejudice to integrate two professional sports in two countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceForewordAcknowledgmentsPrologue: A Gamble1. "Just a Country Boy from Olowalu, Maui"2. Football Star3. The San Francisco 49ers4. Lucky Breaks5. Of Seals and Bees6. A Winter of Uncertainty7. Debut8. The Jackie Robinson of Japan9. Settling In10. Lessons from Santa Maria11. Gaijin Dageki Oh--Foreign Batting Champion12. World Travelers13. Hard Labor14. Lucky Seven15. Young Giants16. End of an Era17. Coach18. Yonamine Kantoku19. Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First20. Suketto21. Hall of FameAppendixBibliographic EssayIndex
