Banzai Babe Ruth : Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (366 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803240247Subject(s): Baseball -- Japan -- History -- 20th century | Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Civilization -- American influences | Ruth, Babe, -- 1895-1948 | Sports and state -- United States | United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Banzai Babe Ruth : Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of JapanDDC classification: 796.357 LOC classification: GV863.A1 -- F58 2012ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Recurring Japanese Characters -- Prologue -- Part 1 "When I say I'll do something, I bet my life on it." -- Part 2 "Babe Ruth . . . is a great deal more effective Ambassador than I could ever be." -- Part 3 "The Japanese are equal to the Americansin strength of spirit." -- Part 4 "There will be no war between the United States and Japan." -- Part 5 "To hell with Babe Ruth!" -- Appendix 1. The All American Touring Party -- Appendix 2. Tour Batting and Pitching Statistics -- Appendix 3. Tour Game Line Scores -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Robert K. Fitts graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received a PhD from Brown University. Originally trained as an archeologist of colonial America, Fitts left that field to focus on his passion, Japanese baseball. He is also the author of Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game and Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball (Nebraska, 2008).
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