You Gotta Have Wa (Vintage Departures) - Softcover
An important element in Japanese baseball is wa--group harmony--embodied in the proverb "The nail that sticks up shall be hammered down". But what if the nail is a visiting American player? Here's a look at Japanese baseball, as seen by baffled Americans
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"The definitive book on Japanese baseball and one of the best-written sports books ever."
--San Francisco Chronicle "Run, or at least jog, to the nearest bookstore and buy You Gotta Have Wa."
--New York Times Book Review "Far more than a sports book."
--David Halberstam "Bob Whiting has done it again! . . . A book that will please baseball fans and enlighten anyone interested in Japanese-American relations."
--James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly
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--San Francisco Chronicle "Run, or at least jog, to the nearest bookstore and buy You Gotta Have Wa."
--New York Times Book Review "Far more than a sports book."
--David Halberstam "Bob Whiting has done it again! . . . A book that will please baseball fans and enlighten anyone interested in Japanese-American relations."
--James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly
Robert Whiting is the author of You Gotta Have Wa and is one of the very few Westerners to write a regular column in the Japanese press. He has appeared as a commentator in documentaries about Japan and on such shows as Larry King Live and The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. He has also written for The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and Time, among other publications. He lives in Tokyo.
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 067972947X
- ISBN 13 9780679729471
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages339
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