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Wally Yonamine : the man who changed Japanese baseball / Robert K. Fitts ; foreword by Daniel K. Inouye.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitts, Robert K., 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball players--Japan--Biography.
- Baseball players.
- Baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Baseball--Japan.
- Baseball.
- Yonamine, Wally K., 1925-2011.
- Yonamine, Wally K.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- "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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-332) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-95819-0
- 9786611958190
- 0-8032-1782-X
- OCLC:
- 250464652
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