Chrysanthemum and the Bat: Baseball Samurai Style

by Robert Whiting

Book Overview

Rare glimpse of the true story of Japan and Japanese through Baseball This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380631156
• ISBN13: 9780380631155
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dated

It's now been nealry 30 years since The Chrysanthemum and the Bat was first published, and Japanese baseball (and Japan) have both changed a great deal in that time. Whiting has since published two more books on Japanese baseball, You Gotta Have Wa, which is very good, and The Meaning of Ichiro, which I unfortunately haven't read yet. If you're looking for a view of what the current era of Japanese baseball is like, you should definitely start with those books. Definitive though it may have been when it was released, and I have little doubt that it was, TCATB now exists primarily as a cultural artifact, and is only worth tracking down if that's what you're interested in.