You Gotta Have Wa, by Robert Whiting

BJR gave me this book a few years back, but I finally got around to read it, prompted by the World Baseball Classic last month. It’s a book written in the late 1980s, about baseball in Japan, and the mixed success of American players there. It’s a really interesting book — although probably only really worth finding if you’re both interested in baseball and interested in Japan — otherwise maybe it’s a little on the esoteric side of things. I’m pretty sure that things have changed dramatically in the last 15-20 years, so would really be interested in a followup. There probably aren’t a lot of books like this, so this one was cool to have.

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4 comments

  1. Laura Jackson
    October 23, 2006 at 1:05 pm

    Do you happen to know how to get in touch with Robert Whiting? I want to see if he can give a presentation on Japanese baseball at a Japanese trading company in NYC.

    Thanks!
    Laura
    212-535-7578

  2. Laura Jackson
    October 23, 2006 at 1:05 pm

    Do you happen to know how to get in touch with Robert Whiting? I want to see if he can give a presentation on Japanese baseball at a Japanese trading company in NYC.

    Thanks!
    Laura
    212-535-7578