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Summary:

"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 and technology to the country, and Japanese students in the United States soon became avid players. In the early twentieth century, visiting Japanese warships fielded teams that played against American teams, and a Negro League team arranged tours to Japan. By the 1930s, professional baseball was organized in Japan. From early on, Guthrie-Shimizu argues, baseball carried American values to Japan, and by the mid-twentieth century, the sport had become emblematic of Japan's modernization and of America's growing influence in the Pacific world. Guthrie-Shimizu contends that baseball provides unique insight into U.S.-Japanese relations during times of war and peace and, in fact, is central to understanding postwar reconciliation. In telling this often surprising history, Transpacific Field of Dreams shines a light on globalization's unlikely, and at times accidental, participants"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Pacific Crossings
• ch. 2 Colonial Baseball
• ch. 3 Leagues of Their Own
• ch. 4 Business of Baseball
• ch. 5 Empires of Fun and Games
• ch. 6 Spartan Leagues
• ch. 7 Field of New Dreams
• ch. 8 Search for Postwar Order.

Author/Creator:

Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Transpacific field of dreams: how baseball linked the United States and Japan in peace and war [by Guthrie-Shimizu, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Transpacific Field of Dreams : How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War [by Guthrie-Shimizu, S.] (Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2012 — ISBN 9780807835623)

Subjects:

Baseball — Political aspects — United States

Baseball — Political aspects — Japan

Japan — Foreign relations — United States

United States — Foreign relations — Japan

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

GV863.A1 G87 2012

ISBNs:

9780807882665 (electronic bk.)
0807882666 (electronic bk.)
9781469601830 (electronic bk.)
1469601834 (electronic bk.)
9780807835623 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0807835625 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

784885365

Other Control Numbers:

422044 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11630768