Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers, Fitts*.

Issei Baseball\nby Robert K. Fitts\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Robert K. Fitts\nTitle: Issei Baseball\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781496213488\nISBN-10: 1496213483\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n2021 SABR Baseball Research Award 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal Winner Baseball has been called America's true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese American baseball, Harry Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda, Tozan Masko, Kiichi Suzuki, and othersyoung men who came to the United States to start a new life but found bigotry and discrimination.\nIn 1905 they formed a baseball club in Los Angel.