Slugging it Out in Japan. An American Major Leaguer in the Tokyo Outfield.

Cromartie, Warren with Whiting, Robert.

ISBN 10: 4770014236 / ISBN 13: 9784770014238

Published by Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1991

About this Item

277pp, bw ills. Or black papered boards with red cloth spine in jacket. Front jacket flap creased, slight edge wear to jacket and boards. The biography of Warren Cromartie, major league baseballer with the Montreal Expos who, when he tested the free agent market was aquired by the Tokyo Giants. As well as the story of his rise to Japanese sports hero of the most unlikely sort, it is the story of his life in and out of baseball including his interacial marriage to a French Canadian wife, his childhood in a black ghetto, his turbulent years with the Expos and his friendship with Tokyo Giants manager Sadaaru Oh. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 005519

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Slugging it Out in Japan. An American Major Leaguer in the Tokyo Outfield.
• Publisher: Kodansha International, Tokyo
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4770014236
• ISBN 13: 9784770014238
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sport Inc. Hunting, Fishing & Games

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Synopsis

Details how a headstrong American ball player became a hero playing for a Japanese team on which other American players had failed and explores his struggle to adjust to Japanese culture

Reviews

As one of the gaijin (foreign) baseball players of Whiting's earlier book, You Gotta Have Wa ( LJ 5/1/89), Cromartie tells of his seven tempestuous years with the Tokyo Giants. "Cro," as they called him, fought the Wa --the demanding team discipline Japanese baseball teams expect from their players--and in return was resented as a highly paid foreigner and an independent black. Finally coming to terms with the Japanese methods, he won acceptance and learned to appreciate the nation's way of life. Recommended where You Gotta Have Wa attracted adult and YA readers.
- Morey Berger, formerly with Monmouth Cty. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.
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