From Honolulu to Brooklyn

From Honolulu to Brooklyn PDF

Author: Joel S. Franks

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1978829256

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Arguably the most famous baseball team outside of the major leagues in the early twentieth century, the Travelers from Hawaiʻi barnstormed the American mainland from 1912 to 1916. During their journeys and after, team leader and star Buck Lai and his teammates encountered racism and colonialism while asserting their humanity in a variety of ways.