Introduction -- Saisho the Dreamer -- The national pastime in Japan -- The New World -- Issei baseball -- Waseda arrives -- Waseda tour continues -- The first professionals: Guy Green's 1906 Japanese base ball club -- The 1906 Barnstorming Tour -- The Mikado's Japanese base ball team -- Nanka and the Japanese Base Ball Association -- "Japanese Invasion" -- Ballplayers and diplomats -- Barnstorming across America -- End of a dream -- Japanese American baseball comes of age -- Incarceration.