Full Description
This book chronicles the Hawaiian Travelers, a barnstorming baseball team of multiethnic, multiracial Hawaiians, who played across the continental U.S. from 1912 through 1916. This team took on college, semi-professional, minor league, and African American nines. In the process, they won the majority of these games, while subverting venerable racial conventions. It also describes the experiences of some of these players after 1916 as they sought baseball careers on the East Coast of the mainland. This book sheds light on a generally untold story about baseball, race, and colonization in the United States during the early decades of the 20th century.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Preface
Introduction
1. The First Journey, 1912
2. The "Yellow Peril" at Bat, 1913
3. The Not So "All-Chinese," 1914
4. Never the Home Team, 1915
5. One Last Time, 1916
6. Further Travels
7. Buck Lai's Journeys
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
