Samuel O. Regalado is a professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, and the author of Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger.

"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

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgments1. Baseball in Nikkei America2. The New Bushido3. Transplanted Cherries4. Baseball Is It!5. The Courier League6. Barbed Wire Baseball7. Catching UpNotesBibliographyIndex

Samuel O. Regalado is a professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, and the author of Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger.

"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

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgments1. Baseball in Nikkei America2. The New Bushido3. Transplanted Cherries4. Baseball Is It!5. The Courier League6. Barbed Wire Baseball7. Catching UpNotesBibliographyIndex

Samuel O. Regalado is a professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, and the author of Viva Baseball! Latin Major Leaguers and Their Special Hunger.

"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

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgments1. Baseball in Nikkei America2. The New Bushido3. Transplanted Cherries4. Baseball Is It!5. The Courier League6. Barbed Wire Baseball7. Catching UpNotesBibliographyIndex