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Transpacific Field of Dreams
Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
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Description for Transpacific Field of Dreams
Paperback. Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469622040
SKU
V9781469622040
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About Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu
Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu is professor of history at Michigan State University, USA and author of Creating People of Plenty: The United States and Japan's Economic Alternatives, 1950-1960.
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