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Kenichi Zenimura Japanese American Baseball Pioneer
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Author : Bill Staples, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2011-08-12
Kenichi Zenimura Japanese American Baseball Pioneer written by Bill Staples, Jr. and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-12 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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.
Kenichi Zenimura Japanese American Baseball Pioneer
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Author : Bill Staples, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2011-07-15
Kenichi Zenimura Japanese American Baseball Pioneer written by Bill Staples, Jr. and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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.
Through A Diamond
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Author : Kerry Yo Nakagawa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Through A Diamond written by Kerry Yo Nakagawa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
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.
Barbed Wire Baseball How One Man Brought Hope To The Japanese Internment Camps
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Author : Marissa Moss
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2016-03-08
Barbed Wire Baseball How One Man Brought Hope To The Japanese Internment Camps written by Marissa Moss and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-08 with categories.
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
Japanese American Baseball In California
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Author : Kerry Yo Nakagawa
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2017-08-28
Japanese American Baseball In California written by Kerry Yo Nakagawa and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-28 with History categories.
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.
Gentle Black Giants
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Author : Kazuo Sayama
language : en
Publisher: Nbrp Press
Release Date : 2019-04-20
Gentle Black Giants written by Kazuo Sayama and has been published by Nbrp Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-20 with categories.
Between 1927 and 1934, the Philadelphia Royal Giants embarked on several goodwill tours across the Pacific-to Japan, Korea, the Philippines and the Hawaiian Territories. As African-Americans, they were relegated to second-class citizenship in the U.S., but abroad they were treated like kings. Unlike the previous tours of major league stars who ridiculed their opponents through embarrassing defeats, the Royal Giants made the games competitive, dignified and enjoyable for opposing players. In Gentle Black Giants: A History of Negro Leaguers in Japan, Kazuo Sayama and Bill Staples, Jr. chronicle the tours of the Royal Giants and demonstrate that without the skill and humanity displayed by the Negro Leaguers, Japanese ballplayers might have become discouraged and lost their love for the game. Instead, the experience of sharing the field with these "gentle, black giants" kept their spirits high and nurtured the seeds for professional baseball to flourish in Japan.
Barbed Wire Baseball
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Author : Marissa Moss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Barbed Wire Baseball written by Marissa Moss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Baseball categories.
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.
Barbed Wire Baseball
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Author : Marissa Moss
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 2016-03-08
Barbed Wire Baseball written by Marissa Moss and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-08 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
As a boy, Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense of hope. This true story, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, introduces children to a little-discussed part of American history through Marissa Moss’s rich text and Yuko Shimizu’s beautiful illustrations. The book includes author and illustrator notes, archival photographs, and a bibliography.
Wally Yonamine
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Author : Robert K. Fitts
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2008-09-01
Wally Yonamine written by Robert K. Fitts and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Wally Yonamine was both the first Japanese American to play for an NFL franchise and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II. This is the unlikely story of how a shy young man from the sugar plantations of Maui overcame prejudice to integrate two professional sports in two countries. ø In 1951 the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants chose Yonamine as the first American to play in Japan during the Allied occupation. He entered Japanese baseball when mistrust of Americans was high?and higher still for Japanese Americans whose parents had left the country a generation earlier. Without speaking the language, he helped introduce a hustling style of base running, shaking up the game for both Japanese players and fans. Along the way, Yonamine endured insults, dodged rocks thrown by fans, initiated riots, and was threatened by yakuza (the Japanese mafia). He also won batting titles, was named the 1957 MVP, coached and managed for twenty-five years, and was honored by the emperor of Japan. Overcoming bigotry and hardship on and off the field, Yonamine became a true national hero and a member of Japan?s Baseball Hall of Fame.
C T Studd
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Author : Norman Grubb
language : en
Publisher: The Lutterworth Press
Release Date : 2014-12-25
C T Studd written by Norman Grubb and has been published by The Lutterworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-25 with Religion categories.
Nurtured in the lap of comfort, educated at Eton and Cambridge, the hero of the British sport-loving public, C. T. Studd, whose Cambridge career has been described as "one long blaze of cricketing glory", created a stir in the secular world of his youth by renouncing wealth and position to follow Christ. He was captain of the Eton XI in 1879, and of Cambridge University in 1883, being accorded in the latter year (vide The Cricketing Annual) "the premier position as an all-round cricketer for the second year in succession". The illness of a brother brought him face to face with realities and the transitoriness of worldly riches and fame. He obeyed the divine command, "Go thy way, sell what thou hast and give to the poor ... take up thy cross and follow me", throwing himself into the work which had called him with the same thoroughness and earnestness with which he had learned to "play a straight bat". Henceforward his life was dedicated to the service of God and his fellow men, and the story of his labours and adventures makes an epic of faith and courage against great odds that will be an inspiration to all who rejoice in a tale of high endeavour.