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Banzai Babe Ruth : Baseball, Espionage, & Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan /
In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, and Connie Mack barnstormed across the Land of the Rising Sun. Hundreds of thousands of fans, many waving Japanese a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, and Connie Mack barnstormed across the Land of the Rising Sun. Hundreds of thousands of fans, many waving Japanese and American flags, welcomed the team with shouts of "Banzai!Banzai, Babe Ruth!" The all-stars stayed for a month, playing 18 games, spawning professional baseball in Japan, and spreading goodwill. Politicians on both sides of the Pacific hoped that the amity generated by the tour-and the two nations |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0803240244 9780803240247 1280687843 9781280687846 9786613664785 6613664782 |