Mashi - The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, First Japanese

The biography of Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues and a pioneering figure for future players from Asia.
 

List of contents

 

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Afterword

Appendix

Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index

 

About the author

Robert K. Fitts is the author of Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan (Nebraska, 2012), winner of the Society of American Baseball Research’s 2013 Seymour Medal for the best baseball book, and Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Baseball (Nebraska, 2008).
 

Summary

The biography of Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues and a pioneering figure for future players from Asia.

Product details

• Authors: Robert K Fitts, Robert K. Fitts
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781496219510
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-1951-0
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Baseball, Asiatische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History