Robert K. Fitts

Robert K. Fitts graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received a Ph.D. from Brown University. Originally trained as an archaeologist of Colonial America, Mr. Pitts left that field to focus on his passion, Japanese baseball. He is also the author of Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game and Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball.

Books Authored

Image of Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers
Author(s):
Robert K. Fitts
Genre(s):
Sports, Baseball, Biography, Autobiography & Memoir, Sports

Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers

April 11, 2020
Reviewed by: 
Richard Crepeau

“Robert Fitts has made another important contribution to Japanese American history and to the role of baseball in that story, as well as to the history of the United States.”

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Image of Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty
Author(s):
Robert K. Fitts
Genre(s):
History, Baseball, Sports, 20th Century, U.S., History, History, U.S., 20th Century, Sports, Baseball, History, History, U.S., 20th Century, Sports, Baseball, History, Sports, History, U.S., History, Baseball, 20th Century

Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination During the 1934 Tour of Japan

March 2, 2012
Reviewed by: 
Dorothy Seymour Mills

In this carefully prepared history dominated by the larger-than-life player Babe Ruth, author Robert Fitts corrects the errors of previous books about the famous baseball tour of Japan 1934.

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