Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball
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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. In 1951 the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants chose Yonamine as the first American to play in Japan during the Allied occupation. He entered Japanese...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803245173
ISBN13:9780803245174
Release Date:April 2012
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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