Author: Robert K. Fitts
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496219511
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
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 his skills. To nearly everyone’s surprise, Murakami, known as Mashi, dominated the American hitters. With the San Francisco Giants caught in a close pennant race and desperate for a left-handed reliever, Masanori was called up to join the big league club, becoming the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues. Featuring pinpoint control, a devastating curveball, and a friendly smile, Mashi became the Giants’ top lefty reliever and one of the team’s most popular players—as well as a national hero in Japan. Not surprisingly, the Giants offered him a contract for the 1965 season. Murakami signed, announcing that he would be thrilled to stay in San Francisco. There was just one problem: the Nankai Hawks still owned his contract. The dispute over Murakami’s contract would ignite an international incident that ultimately prevented other Japanese players from joining the Majors for thirty years. Mashi is the story of an unlikely hero caught up in an American and Japanese baseball dispute and forced to choose between his dreams in the United States and his duty in Japan.
Mashi
Author: Robert K. Fitts
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496219511
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
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 his skills. To nearly everyone’s surprise, Murakami, known as Mashi, dominated the American hitters. With the San Francisco Giants caught in a close pennant race and desperate for a left-handed reliever, Masanori was called up to join the big league club, becoming the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues. Featuring pinpoint control, a devastating curveball, and a friendly smile, Mashi became the Giants’ top lefty reliever and one of the team’s most popular players—as well as a national hero in Japan. Not surprisingly, the Giants offered him a contract for the 1965 season. Murakami signed, announcing that he would be thrilled to stay in San Francisco. There was just one problem: the Nankai Hawks still owned his contract. The dispute over Murakami’s contract would ignite an international incident that ultimately prevented other Japanese players from joining the Majors for thirty years. Mashi is the story of an unlikely hero caught up in an American and Japanese baseball dispute and forced to choose between his dreams in the United States and his duty in Japan.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496219511
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
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 his skills. To nearly everyone’s surprise, Murakami, known as Mashi, dominated the American hitters. With the San Francisco Giants caught in a close pennant race and desperate for a left-handed reliever, Masanori was called up to join the big league club, becoming the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues. Featuring pinpoint control, a devastating curveball, and a friendly smile, Mashi became the Giants’ top lefty reliever and one of the team’s most popular players—as well as a national hero in Japan. Not surprisingly, the Giants offered him a contract for the 1965 season. Murakami signed, announcing that he would be thrilled to stay in San Francisco. There was just one problem: the Nankai Hawks still owned his contract. The dispute over Murakami’s contract would ignite an international incident that ultimately prevented other Japanese players from joining the Majors for thirty years. Mashi is the story of an unlikely hero caught up in an American and Japanese baseball dispute and forced to choose between his dreams in the United States and his duty in Japan.
Mashi
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengali literature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengali literature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Mashi Conservancy Establishment, Progression, and Livelihood Approaches, Caprivi Region
Author: Alphons Wabahe Mosimane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Mashi Craft Market--crafts and Livelihoods in Caprivi
Author: Carol Anne Murphy
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Category : Basket industry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Basket industry
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Ao-Naga Dictionary
Author: Edward Winter Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ao language
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ao language
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
和英英和語林集成
Author: James Curtis Hepburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary
Author: James Curtis Hepburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by J.C. Hepburn
Author: James Curtis Hepburn
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The Modern Review
Author: Ramananda Chatterjee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".
Modern Review
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description