Banzai Babe Ruth – Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour …

Banzai Babe RuthBaseball, Espionage, and Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan\nAuthor(s): Robert K. Fitts\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803245815, 978-0803245815\nSynopsis\nIn November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, and Connie Mack barnstormed across the Land of the Rising Sun. Hundreds of thousands of fans, many waving Japanese and American flags, welcomed the team with shouts of \""Banzai! Banzai, Babe Ruth!\"" The all-stars stayed for a month, playing 18 games, spawning professional baseball in Japan, and spreading goodwill. \nPoliticians on both sides of the Pacific hoped that the amity generated by the tourand the two nations' shared love of the gamecould help heal their growing political differences. But the Babe and baseball could not ov.