Tag: chrysanthemum
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Frankly Speaking – Interview with the Transpacific Forum of Japan Air Lines
by Robert Whiting (1987) — “Frankly Speaking…”, published by Gatewood Press for Japan Air Lines When Admiral Perry reached Japan the word for “sport” didn’t exist in Japanese. Today half of all Japanese consider themselves baseball fans, and the annual high school baseball tournaments dominate the nation’s television attention. According to Robert Whiting, author of…
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The Chrysanthemum and the Bat – Newsday Review
by John Gabree (Apr 17, 1985) — Newsday “The Chrysanthemum and the Bat” is a very different sort of baseball book. The cultures of Japan and the United States are revealed by the way in which each plays the world’s greatest game. The Japanese are as crazy about beisuboru as we are. Superficially, from the…
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The Chrysanthemum and the Bat review
by Library Journal (Aug 15, 1977) Japanese baseball, even more than its American counterpart, is a game of custom and tradition, a sport which has acquired staggering appeal. Children play baseball 12 months a year; major league players are treated with deference reserved for royalty and clergymen. Whiting touches upon these topics in this definitive…
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Review: The Chrysanthemum and the Bat
by L. Vington, Fort Worth Star Telegram (Jul 17, 1977) Although baseball is a business affair in America, in Japan, despite its vast popularity, a ball club is often merely a tax write off for its sponsoring firm. Which is but one of the numerous differences in the game that seem to be the same…
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In Japan, umpires even get hits – in the head
by Abe C. Ravitz, The Plain Dealer (Jul 14, 1977) An easy ground ball is booted by the shortstop as the winning run scores. The offending player looks at the crowd and smiles. An error doesn’t bother him, it’s perfectly human. That’s baseball Samurai style. A popular .350 hitter speaks disrespectfully to his manager and…
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Sideline Slants: Eureka-reared writer scores with new book
by Don Terbush (Jul 10, 1977), Eureka Times Robert Whiting, Eureka High School class of ’61, has written an interesting and widely acclaimed book “Chrysanthemum and the Bat.” In it he describes the Japanese character through the common game of baseball. “The very different way the Japanese approach the game mirrors their fundamentally different approach…
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The Chrysanthemum and the – what? And The making of ‘The Chrysanthemum and the Bat’
by Tom Chapman (Jul 10, 1977), Tokyo Weekender Early Fall – and the excitement and tension of baseball pennant races occupy the thoughts of fans of the ancient and honorable sport wherever it’s played. And especially in Japan with the almost fanatical adventure of Yomiuri Giants’ slugging hero Sadaharu Oh approaching, tying and finally last…
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Books for the Beach
by Time (Jul 4, 1977) THE CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE BAT by ROBERT WHITING 247 pages. Dodd, Mead. $10. Roger Kahn’s Season in the Sun is proof that, pace Thomas Wolfe, you can go home again-when home is a five-sided white plate. Kahn, a sportswriter whose columns appear in TIME, returned to baseball during the summer…
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Here Comes the Summer Special Section
by Time (Jul 4, 1977) Robert Whiting’s book orients the baseball enthusiast in a different manner. Some 20 years after Admiral Perry revealed Japan to the world, an American university professor taught some of his students how to play baseball. Since then, the nation has been hooked. Each year, some 12 million fans jam its…
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A fascinating book: The Chrysanthemum and the Bat
by Dan McGuire (Jun 26, 1977), Honolulu Advertiser At hand is a fascinating book by Robert Whiting, an American who attended school in Japan and has lived there for many years. It’s titled “The Chrysanthemum and the Bat” or “Baseball Samurai Style.” Intending to read a few chapters, I stuck my nose in it and…
