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From Honolulu to Brooklyn : running the American empire's base paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai'̓i
- Title
- From Honolulu to Brooklyn : running the American empire's base paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai'̓i / Joel S. Franks.
- Author
- Franks, Joel S.
- Publication
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- vii, 217 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "From 1912 to 1916, a group of baseball players from Hawai'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 Hawai'i"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Defying assumptions: Baseball, Asians, and Hawaii -- The Travelers from Hawaii: Culture, capitalism, and baseball -- The Travelers take the field -- Crossings of baseball's racial fault lines, 1917- -- Peripatetic pros: 1919- -- The Travelers back home: Hawaii between the wars -- Buck Lai's journeys, 1935- -- Playing in the twilight -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-4705
- ISBN
- 9781978829251
- 1978829256
- 9781978829268
- 1978829264
- LCCN
- 2021057000
- OCLC
- 1292972592
- Author
- Franks, Joel S., author.
- Title
- From Honolulu to Brooklyn : running the American empire's base paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai'̓i / Joel S. Franks.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Franks, Joel S., From Honolulu to Brooklyn New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022] 9781978829251 (DLC) 2021057001
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-4705