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Joel S Franks All Books, SKU sku-550889774: From Honolulu to Brooklyn: Running the American Empire’s Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai’i is a hardcover about baseball players from Hawaiʻi who barnstormed the U.S. mainland from 1912 to 1916. Initially an all-Chinese team, the Travelers later included players of Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian and European ancestry. The book describes their college games and contests against white and black independent teams, as well as the racism and colonialism they faced. After the Travelers’ journeys, team leader Buck Lai gained fame in East Coast independent baseball, while former teammates continued playing and ran for political office in Hawaiʻi. The account presents their experiences as an overlooked part of baseball and sport history and argues that they may have traveled and played more widely than other teams of their era. It also suggests they were likely the best-known team outside the major leagues in the 1910s.You may also like Joel S Franks All Books Football History sku-590184052.