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HOW PANDEMIC LED TO NEW BOOK ON JAPANESE BASEBALL CARDS

As they say, sometimes when life deals you lemons, you just have to make lemonade. I am a baseball historian specializing in Japanese baseball and U.S.-Japan relations through baseball. My latest book, “Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers,” came out in April and I had planned an extensive book tour for most of 2020. The pandemic halted those plans, but it gave me a block of free

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