Firstman: Q&A with ‘Mashi’ author Rob Fitts
From SABR member Diane Firstman at Value Over Replacement Grit on July 27, 2015, with SABR member Rob Fitts:
In 1964, 20-year-old Masanori Murakami became the first player from Japan to play in the Major Leagues. Japanese baseball expert/author Robert Fitts documents Murakami’s journey from the Nankai Hawks of Japan’s Pacific League to the San Francisco Giants in “Mashi.”
Fitts was the winner of the Society of American Baseball Research’s 2013 Seymour Medal for the best baseball book with Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan. Prior to that he had penned Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Baseball.
Fitts was kind enough to take some time after a recently-concluded book tour with Murakami to answer some questions from the VORG ….
Read the full article here: http://valueoverreplacementgrit.com/2015/07/27/q-a-with-mashi-author-rob-fitts/
Originally published: July 28, 2015. Last Updated: July 28, 2015.