Transpacific field of dreams [[electronic resource] ] : how baseball linked the United States and Japan in peace and war / / Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu

• Autore: Guthrie-Shimizu Sayuri
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 796.357
• Soggetto topico: Baseball - Political aspects - Japan; Baseball - Political aspects - United States
• Soggetto geografico: Japan Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations Japan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. Pacific Crossings; CHAPTER 2. Colonial Baseball; CHAPTER 3. Leagues of Their Own; CHAPTER 4. The Business of Baseball; CHAPTER 5. Empires of Fun and Games; A section of illustrations; CHAPTER 6. Spartan Leagues; CHAPTER 7. A Field of New Dreams; CHAPTER 8. The Search for Postwar Order; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 1930's, professional baseball was organized
• Titolo autorizzato: Transpacific field of dreams
• ISBN: 1-4696-0183-4; 0-8078-8266-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790163403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II