Wally Yonamine: the man who changed Japanese baseball
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1. Verfasser: Fitts, Robert K. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press © 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-332) and index
"Just a country boy from Olowalu, Maui" -- Football star -- The San Francisco 49ers -- Lucky breaks -- Of Seals and Bees -- A winter of uncertainty -- Debut -- The Jackie Robinson of Japan -- Settling in -- Lessons from Santa Maria -- Gaijin Dageki Oh--foreign batting champion -- World travelers -- Hard labor -- Lucky seven -- Young Giants -- End of an era -- Coach -- Yonamine Kantoku -- Sometimes nice guys do finish first -- Suketto -- Hall of fame
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 339 pages, [10] pages of plates)
ISBN:080321782X
9780803217829

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