Diamond Gods Of the Morning Sun: The Vancouver Asahi Baseball Story

by Ron Hotchkiss

Book Overview

This is the story of the Asahi, a Japanese Canadian baseball team that was formed in 1914 and competed in Vancouver's Caucasian leagues between 1918 and 1941. Using a strategy called "brain ball," the smaller Japanese defeated the larger white teams and won a number of championships. This describes what happened to some of these Asahi players after Pearl Harbor when British Columbia's Japanese were sent to internment camps in the province's interior...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1460227255
• ISBN13: 9781460227251
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"