Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, & Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803245815ISBN-10:803245815UPC:9780803245815Book Category:Sports & Recreation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Baseball, Asia, United StatesBook Topic:History, Japan, 20th CenturySize:9.25 x 5.91 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC297J957S
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 and American flags, welcomed the team with shouts of "Banzai! Banzai, Babe Ruth!" The all-stars...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803245815ISBN-10:803245815UPC:9780803245815Book Category:Sports & Recreation, HistoryBook Subcategory:Baseball, Asia, United StatesBook Topic:History, Japan, 20th CenturySize:9.25 x 5.91 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC297J957S
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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