TY - BOOK ID - 77886198 TI - Transpacific field of dreams : how baseball linked the United States and Japan in peace and war PY - 2012 SN - 1469601834 0807882666 9780807882665 9781469601830 9780807835623 0807835625 1469622041 9781469622040 9798890842701 9798893130409 PB - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Baseball KW - Base-ball KW - Ball games KW - Political aspects KW - Japan KW - United States KW - Foreign relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77886198 AB - Baseball has joined America and Japan, even in times of strife, for over 150 years. After the ""opening"" of Japan by Commodore Perry, Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu explains, baseball was introduced there by American employees of the Japanese government tasked with bringing Western knowledge and technology to the country, and Japanese students in the United States soon became avid players. In the early twentieth century, visiting Japanese warships fielded teams that played against American teams, and a Negro League team arranged tours to Japan. By the 1930's, professional baseball was organized ER -