Title: Samurai shortstop
Description: While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Samurai, Baseball, Boarding schools, Schools, History, Children's fiction, Japan, fiction, Boarding schools, fiction, Baseball, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Samurai, fiction, Baseball stories
Places: Japan
Time periods: Meiji period, 1868-1912