Books
Gentle Black Giants: A History of Negro Leaguers in Japan (NBRP Press, 2019)
Co-authored with Kazuo Sayama
Foreword by Kenso Zenimura
*Winner: 2019 Robert Peterson Award, SABR Negro Leagues Research Committee*
English translation of baseball history classic about the Philadelphia Royal Giants' tours of pre-war Japan. Updated with extensive footnotes, and appendices featuring maps, stats, rare photos, player insights, bios and "tour scrapbooks."
Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer (McFarland, 2011)
Foreword by Don Wakamatsu
*Winner of the 2012 SABR Baseball Research Award*
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“Tadahito Iguchi" (first Japanese-born MLB player to compete in and win a World Series) biography in The 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox: Grinders and Gamers (SABR, 2025)
"A 'Peaceful War of Baseball': University of Minnesota Beats Waseda University, 3–2, in 15 Innings, May 26, 1911" in The National Pastime: Baseball in the Land of 10,000 Lakes (SABR, 2024)
"From Crookston to Cooperstown: Chet Brewer and John Donaldson Battle in a 12-Inning Integrated Duel" (co-author with Pete Gorton) in The National Pastime: Baseball in the Land of 10,000 Lakes (SABR, 2024)
"Jesse 'Hoss' Walker" biography (co-author with Adam Darowski) in The 1939 Baltimore Elite Giants (SABR, 2024)
Two entries: "Kenichi Zenimura: The Father of Japanese American Baseball and the 1924, 1927 and 1937 Tours," and "Gentle Black Giants: Negro Leaguers in Japan, Philadelphia Royal Giants Tour, 1927" in Nichibei Yakyu: U.S. Tours of Japan, 1907-1958 (Volume 1) (SABR, 2022)
Two entries: "June 14, 1872: Dolly Varden Club 27, Yeddo Royal Japanese Troupe 23, at Newington Grounds, Baltimore," and "April 4, 2001: Hideo Nomo joins elite company with no-hitters in both leagues," in Baltimore Baseball (SABR, 2021)
"Joe Staples" (no relation) biography in One-Hit Wonders (SABR, 2021)
"April 1, 2002: Big Unit matches the Big Train in Opening Day victory for Diamondbacks" in the virtual "Opening Day" Series (SABR, 2020)
"Biz Mackey in Japan," chapter in The Eagles Take Flight: The Story of The 1946 Negro League Champions (SABR, 2019)
“Hideo Nomo” biography and two game summaries in NO-HITTERS (SABR, 2017)
"Film review: THE VANCOUVER ASAHI = バンクーバーの朝日 | By Yuya Ishii"
Pacific Affairs (Vol. 89 No. 2), The University of British Columbia, Vancouver (June 2016)
“Japanese American Baseball” in Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, and Political History (ABC-CLIO, 2013)
"Book review: The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers: A Multiethnic Baseball Team Tours the Mainland, 1912-1916, by Joel Franks" (SABR Dead Ball Era newsletter, November 2012)
“Black Giant: Biz Mackey’s Texas Negro League Career” in Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues (McFarland, Spring 2008)
Baseball and the Occupation of Japan: America's Pastime as a Tool to Promote Social Values, by Takeshi Tanikawa (McFarland, 2019)
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created Hardcover, by Jane Leavy (Harpers, 2018)
1935 年のサムライ野球団 「裏ワールド・シリーズ」に挑んだニッポニーズ・オールスターズの謎 (Samurai Baseball in 1935: The Nipponese All Stars at the Other World Series) by Kazuo Sayama (2015)
Japanese American Baseball in California: A History, by Kerry Yo Nakagawa, Tom Seaver, et al. (The History Press, 2014)
Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball's Color Line, by Tom Dunkel (Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, 2013)
Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan, by Robert K. Fitts (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
Arizona: 100 Years Grand 1912-2012, by Lisa Schnebly Heidinger (Arizona Historical Advisory Commission, 2011)