Wally Yonamine :: the man who changed Japanese baseball /

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 spo...

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1. Verfasser: Fitts, Robert K., 1965-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
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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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 339 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-332) and index.
ISBN:9780803217829
080321782X
1281958190
9781281958198

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