"Joel Franks has resurrected the story of Buck Lai and his Hawaiian baseball team, shedding light on a person who might have been the Asian American equivalent of Jackie Robinson. Despite the racism of the era, Buck Lai became a success story worthy of remembrance and emulation."— Gerald R. Gems, author of Sport History: The Basics<br /> "Joel Franks, a pioneer in Asian Pacific American sports, continues to forge new ground in this area of study with his most recent and elegantly written story of a Hawaiian baseball team's sojourns through the U.S. mainland during one of the nation's most racist periods of time. His attention to context alongside a moving narrative propels the significance of the club's trials and tribulations."— Samuel O. Regalado, author of Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Le<br />
Chapter One: Defying Assumptions: Baseball, Asians, and Hawaiʻ i
Chapter Two: The Travelers from Hawaiʻ i: Culture, Capitalism, and Baseball
Chapter Three: The Travelers Take the Field
Chapter Four: Crossings of Baseball's Racial Fault Lines, 1917-1918
Chapter Five: Peripatetic Pros: 1919-1934
Chapter Six: The Travelers Back Home: Hawaiʻ i Between the Wars
Chapter Seven: Buck Lai's Journeys, 1935-1937
Chapter Eight: Playing in the Twilight
Conclusion
Acknowledgments