Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers, Hardcover - Robert K. Fitts

Reducere. 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 Ame...

Reducere. In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan's Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve ...

Reducere. In 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...

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DescriptionBold Venture tells the nearly forgotten story of the American airmen who flew perilous combat missions over Hong Kong during the Second ...

Reducere. Ichiro...Nomo...Hasegawa...Hideki Matsui...one by one they have come to America and made their mark as incredibly gifted and popular ballplayers. B...

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The unique relationship between dogs and humans has had huge evolutionary consequences, changing the physical, behavioral, genetic, and emotional c...

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Reducere. Four generations of Japanese Americans broke down racial and cultural barriers in California by playing baseball. Behind the barbed wire of concent...

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Discover the inspiring story of the first black woman elected to Congress and to run for president in this picture book biography from a Newbery Ho...

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In this expansive monograph, Robert Adams' compelling and provocative photographs explore the profound questions of our responsibility to the land ...

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Reducere. Kat D. Williams traces Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez's life from her childhood in Cuba, where she played baseball with the boys on the streets of El Cerro...

The strangely named First Aid Nursing Yeomanry traces its origins to the Great War.

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the story of the first part of my life and how I rediscovered myself. At the age of 38, a midlife crisis inspired me to exp...