Slugging It Out in Japan: An American Major Leaguer in the Tokyo Outfield

Cromartie, Warren, and Whiting, Robert

ISBN 10: 4770014236 / ISBN 13: 9784770014238

Published by Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1991

About this Item

24 cm, 277, illus., ink notation fr endpaper (possibly from Bob Whiting), publisher's reply card laid in, DJ sl worn, soiled, & edge tears. Warren Cromartie's story, from his childhood in a black ghetto in Miami where he first learned the game, to his turbulent years with the Expos, to his arrival in Tokyo where he is proclaimed as messiah.

Seller Inventory # 31601

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: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: very good, good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Discrimination
  • Racism

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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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