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The Chrysanthemum and the Bat: Baseball Samurai Style Review – Publisher’s Weekly
by Publisher’s Weekly (Nov 29, 1977) American baseball fans will find this book irresistible. Whiting has done an outstanding job of showing how the Japanese national character has shaped the diamond game in that country. In spring training, players are put through a regimen that would make a chain gang seem like a vacation. Throughout…
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Review of Chrysanthemum and the Bat – Focus Japan
by Focus Japan (Dec 1, 1977) Many businessmen in the U.S. are highly interested in the subject of baseball and could talk at length on the pennant stretch and the World Series with their customers and colleagues. In Japan, however, the names of the teams and most of the players are different, and the aura…
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Baseball Mania in Today’s Japan – America’s Favorite Sport Gives Revealing Insights Into a Very Different Culture
by Avon News (Dec 15, 1977) The Chrysanthemum and the Bat: Baseball Samurai Style traces the history of contemporary baseball in Japan, from its introduction in 1873 to its present status as the passion of The Land of the Rising Sun. The book reveals how Japanese cultural values – group identity, cooperation, hard work, respect…
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Baseball, Japanese Style
by Pacific Travel News (Feb 14, 1978) The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, Baseball Samurai Style by Robert Whiting is to be recommended to any baseball fan, Japan bound or not, though there’s he great possibility it will inspire a trip. First introduced to Japan in 1873, the game is now the focus of an annual…
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Background Books: Japan
by The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1982 (Dec 10, 1982) An eccentric but apt metaphor of the Japanese character (and economy) is provided in Robert Whiting’s The Chrysanthemum and the Bat. Baseball met an ambivalent reception in 19th century Japan. One critic called it a “pick-pocket’s sport… The players are tensely on the lookout to swindle…
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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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Books: Something for Everyone
by Leo McConnell (Apr 13, 1983) — Boston-Lowell The subtitle for The Chrysanthemum and the Bat is “Baseball Samurai Style.” Everyone knows that the Japanese have a passion for baseball. Whiting, who has spent most of his adult life in Asia, has written about that passion in an entertaining and informative study which gives a…
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It Happens Every Spring: Baseball Is Back, and With Its Baseball Books and Other Literary Signs of Spring
by Clarence Petersen (Apr 17, 1983) — Texas Post Chrysanthemum and the Bat The vendors sell sushi, sake, 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…
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Book Beat: Review – Chicago Sun Times
by Chicago Sun Times (May 15, 1983) The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, Robert Whiting’s fascinating look at the game in Japan, is in paperback. Among highlights are Daryl Spencer being walked intentionally to allow a Japanese slugger to win the home-run championship and why Joe Pepitone remands the island’s most-hated U.S. player.
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The Chrysanthemum and the Bat Review – Avon Books
by Avon Books (May 15, 1983) The Chrysanthemum and the Bat: Baseball Samurai Style traces the history of contemporary baseball in Japan, from its introduction in 1873 to its present status as the passion of The Land of the Rising Sun. This book reveals how Japanese cultural values – group identity, cooperations, hard work, respect…
