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| #385847 in Books | Whiting, Robert | 2009-03-24 | 2009-03-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.98 x.86 x5.15l,.86 | File type: PDF | 416 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| not as funny as people make it out to be--though it is ...|By Jason Goetz|This was an interesting read, not as funny as people make it out to be--though it is amusing at times--but well worth it as an intro to Japanese baseball. I read it for one of my own books, part of the Essays on the Classics! series, which is a collection of essays on baseball, first from the management|From Publishers Weekly|The "wa" one must have is the group harmony that is the essence of Japanese baseball. According to PW , "this interesting comparative study of the sport as it is played on both sides of the Pacific concentrates on the American stars who ha
A hilarious, informative, and riveting account of Japanese baseball and the cultural clashes that ensued when Americans began playing there professionally.
In Japan, baseball is a way of life. It is a philosophy. It is besuboru. Its most important element is wa—group harmony—embodied in the proverb "The nail that sticks up shall be hammered down." In this witty and incisive book, Robert Whiting gives us a close-up look at besuboru'...
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