Remembering Japanese Baseball, an Oral History of the Game is the title of a new book by Robert K. Fitts, the creator of RobsJapanese Cards.com, the world's largest Web site dedicated to Japanese baseball cards and memorabilia.
The book consists of a series of personal accounts by former players in Japan, mostly foreigners, each telling his own personal story before coming to Japanese baseball and the experiences, good and bad, while playing in the Central or Pacific League.
There are 25 first-person recollections from a cross-section of ex-players, including the successful and not-so-successful, guys who played in Japan for a year or two and others who managed to excel in Japanese baseball for 10 or 12 years, spanning the decades of the 1950s through the 1990s.