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Book SynopsisHow Japanese immigrants embraced America's pastime
Trade Review"A worthy intellectual contribution that details the transformation of the meaning of baseball for Japanese Americans,
Nikkei Baseball is likely to be on the shelves of every scholar of sport history. Samuel O. Regalado demonstrates admirable research into an impressive array of archives and community newspapers as well as telling interviews."--Paul R. Spickard, author of
Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group "Well written and well documented, Samuel Regalado has added an important and welcomed study to the relatively small number of books that have been written on the topic of Japanese American baseball."--
Nichi Bei "An elegant historical overview of Japanese-American baseball."--Journal of Sport History
"Regalado convincingly illustrates how baseball brought generations of Japanese together and aided some in overcoming the challenges of becoming Japanese American in a land often hostile to their individual and collective presence for much of the twentieth century."--American Historical Society
