Pre-Owned Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami the First Japanese Major Leaguer (Hardcover) 0803255217 9780803255210

In the spring of 1964 the Nankai Hawks of Japan s Pacific League sent nineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve his skills. To nearly everyone s surprise Murakami known as Mashi dominated the American hitters. With the San Francisco Giants caught in a close pennant race and desperate for a left-handed reliever Masanori was c...