Literary birthday greetings: Wally Yonamine

June 24, 2011 · 2 comments

Yonamine, the first Asian-American to play baseball in Japan, was born this date in 1925 in Honolulu.

He passed away earlier this year at the age of 86.

Robert Fitts published his biography — Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball — in 2008.

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1 Regina Litman June 26, 2011 at 5:56 pm

Did Rico Petrocelli ever do a book? How about his one-time manager Eddie Kasko? Or Gus Zernial, a long ago Philadelphia A’s home run hitter? Or recent stars Jeff Conine and Jim Edmonds? I hope you will find someone to send a literary birthday greeting to on my birthday (coming up very soon)!

2 Anonymous July 7, 2011 at 6:32 pm

As far as I can tell, Petrocelli at least “lent his name” to a 2007 collection of anecdotes titled “Rico Petrocelli’s Tales from the Impossible Dream Red Sox.” The way these things often work is that the publisher tries to assign a recognized to a project in hopes of increasing sales. How much Petro actually had to do with the book is hard to say (Haven’t read this one).

Neither Kasko nor Zernial have books attributed to them.

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