Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer While Jackie Robinson and the Negro Leagues have been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900-1968). A phenomenal player who excelled at all nine positions, Zenimura possessed a gift for using the game to transcend the ignorance and intolerance of his era. As a player, captain, and manager, he wo
Full description- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Published: 25 July 2011
- Format: Paperback 271 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Sport | Social & Cultural History | Baseball
- ISBN 13: 9780786461349 ISBN 10: 0786461349
- Sales rank: 612,235
Full description for Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer
A talented player who excelled at all nine positions, Kenichi Zenimura (1900-1968) was also a respected manager who would become the most influential figure in the Japanese American Nisei baseball leagues. He worked tirelessly to promote the game at home and abroad, leading goodwill trips to Asia, helping to negotiate tours of Japan by Negro League All-Stars and Babe Ruth, and establishing a 32-team league behind the barbed wire of Arizona's Gila River Internment Camp during World War II. This first biography of the "Father of Japanese American Baseball" delivers a thorough and fascinating account of Zenimura's life.
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