Background
Suishu Tobita was born on December 1, 1886 in Ibaraki, Japan.
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Suishu Tobita
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also known as
Tadanari Tobita
Education
He graduated from Waseda University.
Career
Suishu Tobita entered Yomiuri Shimbun (newspaper), later Asahi Shimbun and engaged briskly in writing baseball comments. Endeavored to promote baseball psychology, and his review of amateur baseball was favorably received. Works: "Thirty Years of Baseball Career," "Technique of Baseball," and reviews and essays.
References
- Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War By the 1930s, professional baseball was organized in Japan where it continued to be played during and after World War II. From early on, Guthrie-Shimizu argues, baseball carried American values to Japan, and by the mid-twentieth century, the sport had become emblematic of Japan's modernization and of America's growing influence in the Pacific world. Guthrie-Shimizu contends that baseball provides unique insight into U.S.-Japanese relations during times of war and peace and, in fact, is central to understanding postwar reconciliation. In telling this often surprising history, Transpacific Field of Dreams shines a light on globalization's unlikely, and at times accidental, participants.
