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Informationen zum Autor Robert K. Fitts is the author of Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer (Nebraska, 2015), Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Baseball (Nebraska, 2008), and Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan (Nebraska, 2012), winner of the Society of American Baseball Research’s Seymour Medal. Klappentext Issei Baseball focuses on a small group of men who formed the first professional and semiprofessional Japanese baseball clubs. Through these men, Robert K. Fitts examines the history of early Japanese American baseball and the Japanese immigrant experience. Zusammenfassung Issei Baseball focuses on a small group of men who formed the first professional and semiprofessional Japanese baseball clubs. Through these men, Robert K. Fitts examines the history of early Japanese American baseball and the Japanese immigrant experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Tables Recurring Japanese Characters Introduction 1. Saisho the Dreamer 2. The National Pastime in Japan 3. The New World 4. Issei Baseball 5. Waseda Arrives 6. Waseda Tour Continues 7. Guy Green’s 1906 Japanese Base Ball Club 8. The 1906 Barnstorming Tour 9. The Mikado’s Japanese Base Ball Team 10. Nanka and the Japanese Base Ball Association 11. “Japanese Invasion” 12. Ballplayers and Diplomats 13. Barnstorming across America 14. End of a Dream 15. Japanese American Baseball Comes of Age 16. Incarceration Acknowledgments Appendix A: Schedules and Game Results Appendix B: Known Issei Baseball Clubs, 1904–10 Appendix C: Partial Rosters of Selected Issei Teams Notes Bibliography Index
