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"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.
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Baseball players, Biography, Baseball, Japan, biography, Baseball, japan, Sports, united states, Sports, asiaPeople
Wally K. Yonamine (1925-)Places
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Wally Yonamine: the man who changed Japanese baseball
2008, University of Nebraska Press
in English
0803213816 9780803213814
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Table of Contents
"Just a country boy from Olowalu, Maui"
Football star
The San Francisco 49ers
Lucky breaks
Of Seals and Bees
A winter of uncertainty
Debut
The Jackie Robinson of Japan
Settling in
Lessons from Santa Maria
Gaijin Dageki Oh
foreign batting champion
World travelers
Hard labor
Lucky seven
Young Giants
End of an era
Coach
Yonamine Kantoku
Sometimes nice guys do finish first
Suketto
Hall of fame.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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