Tag: Chicago Tribune
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Books Put Reader at Bat, on Green
by Clarence Petersen (Apr 9, 1983) — Chicago Tribune The vendors sell sushi, sake and hotto dogu to crowds of 50,000 in the stadiums of Japan, a nation of besuboru nuts. It is the same American pastime that we watch, writes Whiting, who has watched it there for a decade, but then it’s not quite…
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You Gotta Have Wa – Chicago Tribune Review
by Linda Kay & Mike Conklin (Jun 10, 1989) Required reading: ….that their teams are learning to suck it up without stars Carlton Fisk and Andre Dawson, managers Jeff Torborg and Don Zimmer might consider Robert Whiting’s new book about baseball in Japan. It’s called: “You Gotta Have Wa”. In Japan, “wa” means team spirit.…
