{"product_id":"nikkei-baseball-9780252078835","title":"Nikkei Baseball","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow Japanese immigrants embraced America's pastime\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A worthy intellectual contribution that details the transformation of the meaning of baseball for Japanese Americans, \u003ci\u003eNikkei Baseball\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eJapanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eNichi Bei\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"An elegant historical overview of Japanese-American baseball.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Sport History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036844818775,"sku":"9780252078835","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252078835.jpg?v=1750932733","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nikkei-baseball-9780252078835","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}