Transpacific Field of Dreams

“Exhaustively researched. . . . This is a well-written book.” — The Wall Street Journal

“A fascinating, evocative, and highly readable work that fulfills the promise of 'sports history' by illuminating the real significance that ideologies and imaginations of baseball had for the United States and Japan during these crucial moments of modern history.” — American Historical Review

“An impressively researched contribution to the study of baseball’s globalization.” — Library Journal

“Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.” — CHOICE

“A thorough, excellently researched . . . and professionally competent effort that will help other scholars.” — Journal of American History

“Transpacific Field of Dreams offers a compelling narrative. . . . This book is well worth reading.” — Journal of Japanese Studies

“A valuable contribution to the history of globalization and U.S.-Japanese relations. It adds significantly to our growing understanding of the central role that sport can and has played, often beyond formal arrangements, in diplomacy and international relations.” — Diplomatic History

“A valuable contribution. . . . Would be a useful addition to the reading lists for senior undergraduates and graduate students studying international relations in the Asia Pacific, East Asian history, and comparative sports studies.” — Review of Politics

“Beautifully written and richly researched in English- and Japanese-language sources, this book reveals that 'America’s pastime' was truly a transnational game, one with power to bind two very disparate nations. This book will surely be the definitive study of an important topic with ramifications well beyond the world of sport.” — Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne

“This wonderful book makes significant contributions to U.S. foreign relations, American studies, sports history, and Japanese history. Guthrie-Shimizu’s prose is beautiful and her scholarship is complete and up to date — she is an excellent storyteller.” — Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder