Books by Robert K. Fitts

Issei Baseball focuses on a small group of men who formed the first professional and semiprofessional Japanese baseball clubs. Through these men, Robert K. Fitts examines the history of early Japanese American baseball and the Japanese immigrant experience.

Provides a wonderful story about baseball, nationalism, and American and Japanese cultural history

Wally Yonamine was both the first Japanese American to play for an NFL franchise and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II. This is the unlikely story of how a shy young man from the sugar plantations of Maui overcame prejudice to integrate two professional sports in two countries.