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Japanese Baseball
This book - the first in the English language to contain an exhaustive collection of Japanese baseball data - presents basic statistical information and listings for every Japanese professional baseball season from 1936 through 1997. The first part contains yearly breakdowns of team standings; qualifiers for batting and earned run championships; leaders in home runs, runs batted in, wins and strikeouts; all-star game results; Japan Series results; Best Nine selections; Gold Glove selections; and award winners. Sections on career records and single-season records are provided in the second part of this work. Appendices list no-hit, no-run games, Japanese Hall of Famers, and records of foreign tours of Japan by professional teams.
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Wally Yonamine : the man who changed Japanese baseball
\"A biography of Wally Yonamine, the first ethnic Japanese pro football player in the United States and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Transpacific Field of Dreams
Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the \"opening\" of Japan by Commodore Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and technology to the country, and Japanese students in the United States soon became avid players. In the early twentieth century, visiting Japanese warships fielded teams that played against American teams, and a Negro League team arranged tours to Japan. By the 1930s, professional baseball was organized in Japan where it continued to be played during and after World War II; it was even played in Japanese American internment camps in the United States during the war.From early on, Guthrie-Shimizu argues, baseball carried American values to Japan, and by the mid-twentieth century, the sport had become emblematic of Japan's modernization and of America's growing influence in the Pacific world. Guthrie-Shimizu contends that baseball provides unique insight into U.S.-Japanese relations during times of war and peace and, in fact, is central to understanding postwar reconciliation. In telling this often surprising history,Transpacific Field of Dreamsshines a light on globalization's unlikely, and at times accidental, participants.
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Banzai Babe Ruth : baseball, espionage, & assassination during the 1934 tour of Japan
In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, and Connie Mack barnstormed across the Land of the Rising Sun.
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Take me out to the Yakyu
A little boy's grandfathers, one in America and one in Japan, teach him about baseball and its rich, varying cultural traditions.
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Ohtani: The Greatest Game Ever?
\"[Shohei] Ohtani is a superstar from Japan. He plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers. On September 19 [2024], he was facing the Marlins in Miami, Florida. Ohtani hit three home runs--his 49th, 50th, and 51st of the season. He also stole two bases--his 50th and 51st of the year. He became the first player with 50 home runs and 50 steals in a season!\" (News-O-Matic) Read more about Shohei Ohtani, a baseball player who hit 50 home runs.
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Hit King Makes Baseball History
\"A hitter in baseball tries to get a hit. He does that by hitting the ball away from the fielders. No one was better at that than Ichiro Suzuki. On January 21 [2025], Ichiro was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He’s the first player from Japan to join!\" (News-O-Matic) Read more about the baseball player, Ichiro Suzuki.
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