Robert Whiting
Robert Whiting (1942 – ) has been a writer and journalist for many decades, with a primary focus on Japanese culture. He has written three books on Japanese baseball: The Chrysanthemum and the Bat: The Game Japanese Play (1977), You Gotta Have Wa: When Two Cultures Collide on the Baseball Diamond (1989), and The Meaning of Ichiro: The New Wave from Japan and the Transformation of Our National Pastime (2004) — each groundbreaking in the field.
Related links:
- Click here to read Todd Peterson’s profile of Robert Whiting in the Spring 2023 Baseball Research Journal
- Robert Whiting’s You Gotta Have Wa was named one of SABR’s top 50 books of the past half-century
- Read some of Robert Whiting’s historical articles at JapaneseBaseball.com
- Read Robert Whiting’s current work at Substack.com