Japan Baseball
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Banzai Babe Ruth
- Baseball, Espionage, and the Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan
- By: Robert K. Fitts
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars that included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, future secret agent Moe Berg, and Connie Mack barnstormed across the Land of the Rising Sun. Hundreds of thousands of fans, many waving Japanese and American flags, welcomed the team with shouts of Banzai! Banzai Babe Ruth! The all-stars stayed for a month, playing 18 games, spawning professional baseball in Japan.
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Excellent story, reader needs pronunciation chart
- By Michael Westbay on 03-17-13
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Banzai Babe Ruth
- Baseball, Espionage, and the Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 02-25-13
- Language: English
- In November 1934 as the United States and Japan drifted toward war, a team of American League all-stars barnstormed across the Land of the Rising Sun....
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A Baseball Gaijin
- Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back
- By: Aaron Fischman, Don Nomura - foreword
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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Like many American boys, Tony Barnette yearned to one day make it to “The Show,” playing baseball professionally. The Arizona State pitcher was drafted in 2006 by the in-state Diamondbacks. Gradually ascending the minor-league ladder, it looked like this was the beginning of a blessed life, where he could play the game he loved on the grandest of stages. But things don’t always work out the way we want. On the verge of achieving his lifelong dream after notching a league-high 14 wins in Triple A, Tony looked ahead to 2010 with optimism. That’s when Japan came calling.
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A Baseball Gaijin
- Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 08-13-24
- Language: English
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Aaron Fischman tells the story American professional baseball player Tony Barnette, pitcher for the Tokyo’s Yakult Swallows, the renowned Yomiuri Giants’ intra-city rivals.
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Tokyo Junkie
- 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys... and Baseball
- By: Robert Whiting
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation.
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Please hire narrators who can pronounce Japanese correctly!!!
- By angelheart on 08-22-21
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Tokyo Junkie
- 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys... and Baseball
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 06-22-21
- Language: English
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Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world....
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Shohei Ohtani
- How Japan's Babe Ruth Became the Most Electric Player in Major League Baseball
- By: Jackson Carter
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Shohei Ohtani is a phenomenon. When he joined Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels in 2017, he brought with him skills never before seen in the MLB. He can mash home runs and throw 100 miles-per-hour fastballs. Plus, he plays baseball like a samurai, driven by an insatiable competitive spirit that spurs him to perform superhuman feats throughout every game. But to say he is an MLB All Star doesn’t give the whole picture of the man. A humble young man from rural Japan, Shohei Ohtani has worked tirelessly to perfect his craft. Overcoming multiple devastating injuries, Shohei Ohtani ...
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Shohei Ohtani
- How Japan's Babe Ruth Became the Most Electric Player in Major League Baseball
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
- Shohei Ohtani is a phenomenon. When he joined Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels in 2017, he brought with him skills never before seen in ...
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