Alexander Cartwright, who invented the game of baseball in New York in
the 1840s, soon took his bag of tricks to Hawai'i--where adoption of the
pastime predates most other American locales. Pineapple plantation teams
played rival sugar refinery clubs with Chinese, Korean and Japanese
teams. Barnstorming big-leaguers landed during the winter, and Pearl
Harbor brought the biggest names in the sport to paradise: Babe Ruth,
Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, John McGraw and many more. Barry Bonds and
Tony Gwynn played for the Hawai'i Islanders before heading up to the
Show. Homegrown talents are on display here along with the legends, as
author Jim Vitti shows that Hawai'i's baseball history is as rich and
diverse as anywhere on the mainland..