Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues

Index

Index Abe, Isoo, 16 Abiko, Kyutaro, 27, 28, 37, 38, 39, 59; on Americanization of Japanese immigrants, 73, 74 Alien Land Act, 121 Americanization of Japanese Americans, 52–53, 73–74, 88, 92–93; internment and, 103–5. See also patriotism of Japanese Americans American Legion, 117 Americans of Japanese Ancestry (AJA) league, 21, 45–46 Anson, Adrian, 11 Asahi Club, 31–33, 34, 41, 45–47 atomic bomb, 114 Azuma, Eiichiro, 38 Bainbridge Review, 93 Ban, Shinsaburo, 81 baseball: arrival in Japan, 9–10, 12–13; color barrier, 120–21; games between Japanese and American teams, 16–17; growth in popularity of, 11–12, 22, 49–50, 51–54, 80–83; major league, 123–24, 127–32, 134, 135–43; origins of, 11; tributes to Nisei, 1–2 Baseball Hall of Fame, 134 Beasley, W. G., 14 Bellan, Esteban, 127 Bendetsen, Karl R., 96, 100 Bigler, John, 25 Blaine, Hilmar, 56 Brooklyn Eagle, 11 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 121 Buddhist church, 81, 84, 127 Burns, Edward M., 12 California Coast Counties Athletic Association, 51 California League, 49 Candlestick Park, San Francisco, 1–2, 134 Cartwright, Alexander, 19 Castleberry, G. F., 103 Chadwick, Henry, 11 Cherry team, 31–32 Chinen, Karleen C., 45, 124 Chinese Americans, 24–25, 37, 63, 148n64, 149n8 Chinese Digest, 63 Chinese Exclusion Act, 25, 37 Cincinnati Red Stockings, 49 Clark, Tom, 96 color barrier in baseball, 120–21 Conroy, Hilary, 18 Coolidge, Calvin, 37 Cortez Young People’s Club (CYPC), 56 Coughlin, Charles, 61 Courier Athletic League, 76–77 Crandall, Jimmy, 67 curfews, 93–94 Daniels, Roger, 24, 26, 47, 63, 88; on internment and baseball, 93, 95, 102; on the post-World War II era, 116, 121 Daws, Gavin, 18 DeWitt, John L., 91–96, 101 DiMaggio, Joe, 95, 123, 124 Regalado_Text.indd 181 10/24/12 4:54 PM Index 182 Doby, Larry, 121 Dodds, Gordon B., 80–81 Douglas, William O., 115 Eagles Base Ball Club, 49 East Bronx Dux, 61 Eisenhower, Milton, 101 Embree, John F., 102 Endo, Ex Parte, 115 Enola Gay, 114 Ernst, Charles F., 109 Farewell to Manzanar, 92 Figgins, Chone, 141–42 Florin baseball team, 53 Fox, Richard Kyle, 11 Franks, Joel, 20 Frazier, “Red,” 67 Fresno, California, 41, 43–44, 68 Fresno Art Museum, 133 Fresno Athletic Club (FAC), 41, 43–44 Fresno Bee, 127 Fresno Grapevine, 99, 100 Fuji Athletic Club, 28–29 Fuji v. State of California, 121 Fukuda, Frank, 7, 24, 28, 138; adolescent Nisei and, 81–82; Issei of Seattle, Washington and, 30–33; Nisei and, 39–40, 43, 76, 78 Future of Japan, The, 15 Gaimenteki doka, 73–74 Gaukuens, 38, 50–51 Gehrig, Lou, 1, 42, 43, 100, 133 George, Henry, 25 Glickman, Marty, 61 Go For Broke!, 119 Granada Pioneer, 111 Greater Japanese Association, 26 Great Society, 129 Greenberg, Hank, 61 Griffey, Ken, Jr., 141 Hammaker, Atlee, 135 Harada, Tsueno, 123–24 Harris, Bucky, 67 Hata, Bill, 106 Hawaii, 17–23, 41, 46–47, 124–25, 126, 148n64; Asahi Club, 31–32, 31–33, 34, 41, 45–47 Hawaiian Baseball League (HBL), 20, 45 Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, 21 Hayashi, Katie Kaori, 60 Hearst, William Randolph, 11 Heart Mountain Sentinel, 104 Hirabayashi, Gordon, 93, 132 Hirabayashi v. U.S., 115, 132 Hirayama, Satoshi, 118, 126 Hiroshi, Hiraoka, 13–14 Horio, Jimmy, 124 Hoshimo, Masao, 56 Hosokawa, Bill, 53, 70, 77, 80, 95, 96 Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, 92 Ichioka, Yuji, 76 Iichiro, Tokutomi, 15 Iijima, Eitaro, 59 Ikeda, Jordan, 141 Immigration Act of 1924, 37, 39 immigration of Japanese: assimilation and, 73– 74; to Hawaii, 17–23, 35–36, 41; laws against, 37, 47, 71–72, 74–75; picture brides and, 47–48; to the western United States, 24–27, 50 Inazo, Nitobe, 73 Inouye, Daniel K., 130 Inouye, Jerry, 83 internment of Japanese Americans, 3, 4, 7, 164n12; adjustment by families to, 97–102; advocates of, 93; Americans not comfortable with, 97; baseball played during, 105–14; curfews preceding, 93–94; federal order directing , 94–95; government officials administering , 102–5; legal challenges to, 115–16; media coverage of, 105–7; process of, 95–97; reparations and redress for, 132–33. See also racism against Japanese Americans Iriye, Akira, 13 Iseri, Thomas, 89 Ishikawa, Travis, 141, 143 Issei, 24–27, 39, 66; Americanization of, 73–74; birthrates, 47, 48; cultural activities, 34–35; immigration laws and, 37, 39, 71–72; in Los Angeles, California, 35–36; newspapers and, 59–60; popularity of baseball among, 52, 54...