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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Introduction: Myths of Japanese Baseball and the Game’s Cultural Representations 1
5. 1. Samurai Baseball: The Popular Press and the Making of a National Pastime in Meiji and Taishō Japan 18
6. 2. Portrait of the Artist as Yakyū Seinen: Masaoka Shiki and the Poetry of Baseball 37
7. 3. Coming Home: Portraying Japanese Baseball on the Silver Screen 61
8. 4. The One Constant: The Literature of Nostalgia and Catharsis in Postwar Japanese Baseball Fiction 93
9. 5. Game On: Encounters with the Magic of Baseball in Japanese Postmodern Fiction 123
10. 6. Happy Medium: Re-envisioning the Hero in Japanese Baseball Manga 151
11. Epilogue: The Enduring Cultural Appeal of Baseball in Japan 182
12. Appendix: Glossary of Selected Terms in Japanese 203
13. Works Cited 216
14. Index 223