Wally Yonamine
Subtitle: the man who changed Japanese baseball
By: Robert K. Fitts ; foreword by Senator Daniel K. Inouye.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780803213814
Subjects: Yonamine, Wally K., -- 1925-; Baseball players -- Japan -- Biography; Baseball players -- United States -- Biography; Baseball -- Japan
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Just a country boy from Olowalu, Maui"; title: Football star; title: The San Francisco 49ers; title: Lucky breaks; title: Of Seals and Bees; title: A winter of uncertainty; title: Debut; title: The Jackie Robinson of Japan; title: Settling in; title: Lessons from Santa Maria; title: Gaijin Dageki Oh; title: foreign batting champion; title: World travelers; title: Hard labor; title: Lucky seven; title: Young Giants; title: End of an era; title: Coach; title: Yonamine Kantoku; title: Sometimes nice guys do finish first; title: Suketto; title: Hall of fame.