Baseball in Hawai'i

by Jim Vitti

Book Overview

Alexander Cartwright, who invented the game of baseball in New York in the 1840s, soon took his bag of tricks to Hawai'i--where adoption of the pastime predates most other American locales. Pineapple plantation teams played rival sugar refinery clubs with Chinese, Korean and Japanese teams. Barnstorming big-leaguers landed during the winter, and Pearl Harbor brought the biggest names in the sport to paradise: Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, John...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626193134
• ISBN13: 9781626193130
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"