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Author Franks, Joel S

Title From Honolulu to Brooklyn Running the American Empire's Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai'i
Published Chicago : Rutgers University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (237 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Defying Assumptions: Baseball, Asians, and Hawai'i -- 2. The Travelers from Hawai'i: Culture, Capitalism, and Baseball -- 3. The Travelers Take the Field -- 4. Crossings of Baseball's Racial Fault Lines, 1917-1918 -- 5. Peripatetic Pros, 1919-1934 -- 6. The Travelers Back Home: Hawai'i between the Wars -- 7. Buck Lai's Journeys, 1935-1937 -- 8. Playing in the Twilight -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author
Summary From 1912 to 1916, a group of baseball players from HawaiĘ» i barnstormed the U.S. mainland. While initially all Chinese, the Travelers became more multiethnic and multiracial with ballplayers possessing Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, and European ancestries. As a group and as individuals the Travelers' experiences represent a still much too marginalized facet of baseball and sport history. Arguably, they traveled more miles and played in more ball parks in the American empire than any other group of ballplayers of their time. Outside of the major leagues, they were likely the most famous nine of the 1910s, dominating their college opponents and more than holding their own against top-flight white and black independent teams. And once the Travelers' journeys were done, a team leader and star Buck Lai gained fame in independent baseball on the East Coast of the U.S., while former teammates ran base paths and ran for political office as they confronted racism and colonialism in HawaiĘ» i
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Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Hawaiian Travelers (Baseball team) -- History
SUBJECT Hawaiian Travelers (Baseball team) fast
Subject Asian Americans -- Sports -- History
Pacific Islander Americans -- Sports -- History
Baseball -- United States -- History
Racism -- Hawaii -- History
SPORTS & RECREATION / General
Baseball
Racism
Hawaii
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781978829282
1978829280