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Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer

Author : Bill Staples, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786485248
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer written by Bill Staples, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900–1968). A talented player who excelled at all nine positions, Zenimura was also a respected manager and would become the Japanese American community’s baseball ambassador. He worked tirelessly to promote the game at home and abroad, leading goodwill trips to Asia, helping to negotiate tours of Japan by Negro League All-Stars and Babe Ruth, and establishing a 32-team league behind the barbed wire of Arizona’s Gila River Internment Camp during World War II. This first biography of the “Father of Japanese-American Baseball” delivers a thorough and fascinating account of Zenimura’s life.

Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps

Author : Marissa Moss
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606381994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps written by Marissa Moss and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale based on the early life of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura traces his childhood dream of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope, in a s

Barbed Wire Baseball

Author : Marissa Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781489899781
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire Baseball written by Marissa Moss and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the childhood dream of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope.

Japanese American Baseball in California

Author : Kerry Yo Nakagawa
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625851146
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Japanese American Baseball in California written by Kerry Yo Nakagawa and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four generations of Japanese Americans broke down racial and cultural barriers in California by playing baseball. Behind the barbed wire of concentration camps during World War II, baseball became a tonic of spiritual renewal for disenfranchised Japanese Americans who played America's pastime while illegally imprisoned. Later, it helped heal resettlement wounds in Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Central Valley and elsewhere. Today, the names of Japanese American ballplayers still resonate as their legacy continues. Mike Lum was the first Japanese American player in the Major Leagues in 1967, Lenn Sakata the first in the World Series in 1983 and Don Wakamatsu the first manager in 2008. Join Kerry Yo Nakagawa in this update of his 2001 classic as he chronicles sporting achievements that doubled as cultural benchmarks.

Issei Baseball

Author : Robert K. Fitts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496220870
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Issei Baseball written by Robert K. Fitts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball has been called America's true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese American baseball, Harry Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda, Tozan Masko, Kiichi Suzuki, and others--young men who came to the United States to start a new life but found bigotry and discrimination. In 1905 they formed a baseball club in Los Angeles and began playing local amateur teams. Inspired by the Waseda University baseball team's 1905 visit to the West Coast, they became the first Japanese professional baseball club on either side of the Pacific and barnstormed across the American Midwest in 1906 and 1911. Tens of thousands came to see "how the minions of the Mikado played the national pastime." As they played, the Japanese earned the respect of their opponents and fans, breaking down racial stereotypes. Baseball became a bridge between the two cultures, bringing Japanese and Americans together through the shared love of the game. Issei Baseball focuses on the small group of men who formed the first professional and semiprofessional Japanese baseball clubs. These players' story tells the history of early Japanese American baseball, including the placement of Saisho, Kitsuse, and their families in relocation camps during World War II and the Japanese immigrant experience.

Major League Rebels

Author : Robert Elias
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538158892
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Major League Rebels written by Robert Elias and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the fascinating stories of the baseball rebels who were influenced by, and in turn influenced, America’s political and social protest movements throughout history—including battles over labor, anti-trust, corporate power, immigration, and America’s wars and military interventions worldwide.

Japanese Americans

Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144084190X
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Americans written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive story of the complicated and rich story of the Japanese American experience-from immigration, to discrimination, to adaptation, achievement and contributions to the American mosaic. Japanese Americans: The History and Culture of a People highlights the enormous contributions of Japanese Americans in history, civil rights, politics, economic development, arts, literature, film, popular culture, sports, and religious landscapes. It not only provides context to important events in Japanese American history and in-depth information about the lives and backgrounds of well-known Japanese Americans, but also captures the essence of everyday life for Japanese Americans as they have adjusted their identities, established communities, and interacted with other ethnic groups. This innovative volume will become the standard resource for exploring why the Japanese came to the USA more than 130 years ago, where they settled, and what experiences played a role in forming the distinctive Japanese American identity.

Nikkei Baseball

Author : Samuel O. Regalado
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252037359
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Nikkei Baseball written by Samuel O. Regalado and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikkei Baseball examines baseball's evolving importance to the Japanese American community and the construction of Japanese American identity. Originally introduced in Japan in the late 1800s, baseball was played in the United States by Japanese immigrants first in Hawaii, then San Francisco and northern California, then in amateur leagues up and down the Pacific Coast. For Japanese American players, baseball was seen as a sport that encouraged healthy competition by imposing rules and standards of ethical behavior for both players and fans. The value of baseball as exercise and amusement quickly expanded into something even more important, a means for strengthening social ties within Japanese American communities and for linking their aspirations to America's pastimes and America's promise. With World War II came internment and baseball and softball played behind barbed wire. After their release from the camps, Japanese Americans found their reentry to American society beset by anti-Japanese laws, policies, and vigilante violence, but they rebuilt their leagues and played in schools and colleges. Drawing from archival research, prior scholarship, and personal interviews, Samuel O. Regalado explores key historical factors such as Meji-era modernization policies in Japan, American anti-Asian sentiments, internment during World War II, the postwar transition, economic and educational opportunities in the 1960s, the developing concept of a distinct "Asian American" identity, and Japanese Americans' rise to the major leagues with star players including Lenn Sakata and Kurt Suzuki and even managers such as the Seattle Mariners' Don Wakamatsu.

Twin Cities Sports

Author : Sheldon Anderson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610756789
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Twin Cities Sports written by Sheldon Anderson and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The histories in Twin Cities Sports are rooted in the class, ethnic, and regional identity of this unique upper midwestern metropolitan area. The compilation includes a wide range of important studies on the hub of interwar speedskating, the success of Gopher football in the Jim Crow era, the integration of municipal golf courses, the building of a world-renowned park system, the Minneapolis Lakers’ basketball dynasty, the Minnesota Twins’ connections to Cuba, and more.

Through a Diamond

Author : Kerry Yo Nakagawa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through a Diamond written by Kerry Yo Nakagawa and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With great sensitivity and perception, Nakagawa describes how, during WWII, Japanese Americans became the only group of United States citizens in history to be imprisoned as a group solely because of their race. During these extremely difficult time, these American internees would organize themselves into leagues and even travel from state to state to compete on the baseball diamond. Through a Diamond is far more than a history of the experience of Japanese American baseball. It is a compassionate description of the immigrant experience of the Japanese people as seen through the prism of American's grand game of baseball.

Asian American Basketball

Author : Joel S. Franks
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786497181
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Asian American Basketball written by Joel S. Franks and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jeremy Lin began to knock down shots for the New York Knicks in 2012, many Americans became aware for the first time that Asian Americans actually play basketball. Indeed, long before Lin shook up the NBA, Asian Americans played the game with passion and skill, and many excelled at high school, college and professional hoops. This comprehensive history of Asian American basketball discusses how these players first found a sense of community in the game, and competed despite an atmosphere of anti-Asian bigotry in historical and contemporary America.

Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan

Author : Andrew T. McDonald
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813176085
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan written by Andrew T. McDonald and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Rusch first traveled from Louisville, Kentucky, to Tokyo in 1925 to help rebuild YMCA facilities in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake. What was planned as a yearlong stay became his life's work as he joined with the Japan Episcopal Church to promote democracy and Western Christian ideals. Over the course of his remarkable life, Rusch served as a college professor and Episcopal missionary, and he was a catalyst for agricultural development, introducing dairy farming to highland Japan. In Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan, Andrew T. McDonald and Verlaine Stoner McDonald present Rusch's life as an epic story that crisscrosses two cultures, traversing war and peace, destruction and rebirth, private struggle and public triumph. As World War II approached, Rusch battled racial prejudice against Japanese Americans, yet also became an apologist for Japan's expansionist foreign policy. After Pearl Harbor, he was arrested as an enemy alien and witnessed the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo. Upon his release to the US in 1942, he joined military intelligence and returned to Japan in that capacity during the US occupation. Though Rusch was of modest origins, he deftly climbed social and military ladders to befriend some of the most intriguing figures of the era, including prime ministers and members of the Japanese royal family. Though he is perhaps best remembered for introducing organized American football in Japan, his greatest legacy is the founding of the Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP), a vehicle for feeding, educating, and uplifting the rural poor of highland Japan. Today his legacy continues to inspire KEEP in the twenty-first century to promote peace, cultural exchange, environmental sustainability, and ecological preservation in Japan and beyond.

The Eagles of Heart Mountain

Author : Bradford Pearson
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 1982107030
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Eagles of Heart Mountain written by Bradford Pearson and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told tale about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team—for fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores. In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, many established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators—yet there was little hope. That is, until the fall of 1943, when the camp’s high school football team, the Eagles, started its first season and finished it undefeated, crushing the competition from nearby, predominantly white high schools. Amid all this excitement, American politics continued to disrupt their lives as the federal government drafted men from the camps for the front lines—including some of the Eagles. As the team’s second season kicked off, the young men faced a choice to either join the Army or resist the draft. Teammates were divided, and some were jailed for their decisions. The Eagles of Heart Mountain honors the resilience of extraordinary heroes and the power of sports in a sweeping and inspirational portrait of one of the darkest moments in American history.

Kenichi Zenimura

Author : Karen McKie
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Kenichi Zenimura written by Karen McKie and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step onto the diamond with Kenichi Zenimura, an unsung hero of baseball whose legacy transcends the game itself. In 'Kenichi Zenimura: A Baseball's Unseen Hero and Architect of Cultural Transformation, ' journey through the inspiring life of a visionary figure who defied the odds, breaking barriers both on and off the field. From his pioneering efforts in the Japanese American baseball community to his profound impact during a tumultuous era, this book unveils the remarkable story of a man whose passion for the game united cultures and left an indelible mark on history. Discover Zenimura's unwavering dedication, relentless spirit, and his pivotal role in fostering unity, resilience, and the power of the human spirit through the universal language of baseball."

Barbed Wire Baseball

Author : Marissa Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781484482933
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire Baseball written by Marissa Moss and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale based on the early life of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura traces his childhood dream of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope, in a s