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fitts1951
Mar 17, 20217 min read
The First Japanese American Battery Included a Future Hollywood Actor and a Philanthropist
While researching my latest book, The Pioneers of Japanese American Baseball, I uncovered this intriguing story. Bigotry towards Japanese...
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fitts1951
Feb 15, 20217 min read
How a Native American Star Began his Career as a Japanese
William Watkins aka Naga aka Big Chief Harry Saisho had a problem. He wanted to transform his Los Angeles-based Japanese Base Ball...
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fitts1951
Feb 15, 20211 min read
1934 All American Tour Roster
I'm often asked if I know the uniform numbers of the 1934 All American team that toured the Far East so I decided to post them here. 1...
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fitts1951
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Scapegoat! How the first Japanese professional ball player was framed as a spy.
Presented at the 2020 Virtual SABR Conference, this 16 minutes powerpoint video tells the story of how Tetsusaburo "Tom" Uyeda played on...
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fitts1951
Feb 15, 20216 min read
Solving the Mystery of Togo Hamamoto
The history of early Japanese American baseball is still being discovered. There is so much we do not know. Mainstream, English-language...
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fitts1951
Feb 15, 20216 min read
The First Japanese Professional Game Took Place in .... Kansas?
The first Japanese professional baseball game took place not in Tokyo, not in Osaka, or even in Japan, but in a tiny town in Northeastern...
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fitts1951
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Cheering Carp
Last week my wife and I were lucky enough to get tickets to the Hiroshima Carp's final home game. We sat in the right field bleachers...
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fitts1951
Feb 15, 202113 min read
Remembering Gene Bacque
Hanshin Tiger Great Gene Bacque passed away this week. In this memory I am reposting his story that I published in remembering Japanese...
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fitts1951
Feb 15, 202116 min read
Remembering Glenn Mickens
Brooklyn Dodger and Kintetsu Buffaloes pitcher Glenn Mickens passed away on July 9 2019. In 2003 I had the pleasure of interviewing Glenn...
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