[JAPANESE BASEBALL]. GOTO, Rev. Chimpei. [The Japanese Ball...
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[JAPANESE BASEBALL]. GOTO, Rev. Chimpei. [The Japanese Balldom of Hawaii]. [Hawaii: 1919]. 8vo. Illustrated. Text in Japanese. Publisher’s full burgundy cloth, spine stamped in gilt, front cover stamped in (later?) white. Worn, soiled, front gutters cracked, text toned and foxed. Fair. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HISTORY OF JAPANESE-AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN BASEBALL. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN ENGLISH ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: “To the members of American Tour Baseball team of Waseda University 1921 / Truly Yours C. P. Goto Author Honolulu, H.I.” Mostly what we know about the early history of Japanese-American baseball is in this book. Waseda University went on a well-known tour of American baseball parks. From the Mark Rucker Collection.
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