1925 Portrait of "Mike" Foon Kai-Kee of Yale, the Only Chinese Student Playing for an American College Baseball Team

Published by New Haven, Connecticut, 1925

Seller: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB

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A portrait of "Mike" Foon Kai-Kee (1903–deceased), a Chinese-American college baseball player at Yale University, from Dinuba, California (misspelled as "Dinerba" in the caption). The caption describes the third baseman as "the only Chinese playing on an American University baseball team [.] according to Joe Wood, Yale’s head coach, he is a marvel. Nothing gets by him in the field". At the time, Chinese people were persecuted in the US—the Immigration Act of 1924, including the Asian Exclusion Act, had recently been enacted. Yale, however, already had a long history with the Chinese people; Yung Wing graduated in 1854 as the first Chinese person to earn an American university degree, and in 1878 Samuel Wells Williams became the first professor of Chinese language and literature in the US. Of interest to scholars of the Chinese-American experience in the early twentieth century. Slightly curled with some folds at corners, editorial overpainting recto, excellent contrast; overall excellent. Single 8 x 10 inch photograph. Fotograms and date stamps verso with typed news caption affixed.

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Title
1925 Portrait of "Mike" Foon Kai-Kee of Yale, the Only Chinese Student Playing for an American College Baseball Team
Author
[Chinese-Americana Baseball Yale University] Unknown Photographer
Publisher
New Haven, Connecticut
Publication year
1925
Seller catalogs
Americana - General, Asian-Americana, Photographs

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