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Transpacific Field of Dreams : How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.