Transpacific field of dreams : how baseball linked the United States and Japan in peace and war /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Series:Online access: HeinOnLine HeinOnline Business and Legal Aspects of Sports and Entertainment (BLASE)
Subjects:
Baseball > Political aspects > United States.
Baseball > Political aspects > Japan.
Base-ball > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Base-ball > Aspect politique > Japon.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Essays & Writings.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Statistics.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Baseball > Political aspects
Diplomatic relations
Japan > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Japan.
Japon > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
Japan
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Pacific crossings
  • 2. Colonial baseball
  • 3. Leagues of their own
  • 4. The business of baseball
  • 5. Empires of fun and games
  • 6. Spartan leagues
  • 7. A field of new dreams
  • 8. The search for postwar order.

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