Category: You Gotta Have Wa
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You Gotta Have Wa
by Orel Hershiser, James Fallows, and David Halberstam (Apr 15, 1989) “The Japanese certainly have the same kind of enthusiasm for baseball as Americans…they just play the game a little differently, and Bob Whiting captures those differences perfectly.” Orel Hershiser Bob Whiting has done it again! THE CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE BAT was a comic masterpiece,…
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You Gotta Have Wa
by Kirkus Reviews (Apr 1, 1989) Eye-popping report on Japanese baseball by a journalist based in Japan. In Whiting’s The Chrysanthemum and the Bat (1976) he provided a hilarious look at the history and customs of Japanese besoboru, here, he zooms in on American major-leaguers who play for big bucks in the land of the rising sun. Most…
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The Enigma of Japanese Baseball-whacky
by Alan Booth (Sep 22, 1989) – Asahi Evening News When major league batting star Bob Horner arrived in Japan in 1987 to play a season for the Yakult Swallows he said: “This place is great.” Twenty-nine games later he said: “I’ve got to get out of here; I can’t believe this shit.” The story…
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How Japan Stacks Up – Los Angeles Times on You Gotta Have Wa
1 October 1989 The image below can be expanded by clicking it.
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Japanese Put a Spin on Baseball – New York Times, Books of The Times review
15 July 1989 The image below can be enlarged by clicking it.
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The Samurai of Summer (Wa) – The New York Times Book Review
11 June 1989 The image below can be enlarged by clicking it.