Episode 255: "Issei Baseball"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

Authors, Baseball, Books, Statistics, Sports, History, Arts

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the early days of the 20th century, a group of young immigrants formed the first professional and semi-professional Japanese baseball teams on either side of the Pacific. But for more than a century, the story of these trailblazers had been lost to history. Robert K. Fitts joins us to explain how he unearthed the fascinating tale of Harry Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda and others who made baseball an integral part of the Japanese-American experience.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I tell the me, I believe
0:05.0	The Giants
0:06.0	The Giants
0:08.0	The Pellant!
0:09.0	The Giants!
0:10.0	The Giants!
0:12.0	The Pellet!
0:13.0	The giant!
0:14.0	The one constant through all the years, Ray,
0:15.0	has been baseball.
0:17.0	Oh, put me in cold.
0:22.0	I'm ready center of you.
0:47.3	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McWire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:55.3	That's right, folks, you are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:57.3	We're going to get right to it today.
1:03.8	Author Robert K. Fitz returns to the podcast. He previously appeared way back in episode 89 to talk about Banzai Babe Ruth. He is the author of several other books on Japanese baseball,
1:13.0	and today he joins us to talk about his new book.
1:18.8	It's called Isay Baseball, the story of the first Japanese American ball players.
1:20.6	Let's get started.
1:25.9	Hey, Rob, welcome back to Baseball by the book.
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