Bibliographic record
Abstract
Donald R. Shuster. in Palau: Passion for Game from 1925-2007. Guam: Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam, 2008. 225 pp. Paper, $28.00. Fifteen years ago, I returned to United States after living in Japan for two years. At a major baseball card show, I asked dealers if they had any Japanese cards. More than one laughed at me. They play baseball in Japan? You're kidding, right? Today, this response would be inconceivable. Hideo Norm, Ichiro Suzuki, Chan Ho Park, Chien-Ming Wang and others have shown Americans that game is played in Asia and played well. The World Classic has shown that baseball thrives, not only in Latin America and Asia, but also in Netherlands, Australia, Italy, and South Africa. Recently, articles in New York Times have focused on baseball in China and India. is a truly global sport. Donald Shuster's in Palau: Passion for Game introduces readers to little-known history of game in Republic of Palau in Micronesia. This volume will be greatly appreciated by all fans and players from Palau and will be a valuable starting point for future researchers of Micronesian baseball, but Shuster fails to make subject interesting to a wider audience. Although Table of Contents lists eleven items, in Palau contains five topical sections. After acknowledgements and uninformative introduction, first section, entitled Baseball During Japanese Times, consists of a page of biographical facts about Motoji Kono, the father of baseball in Palau, an interesting interview with a former player, and an analysis of an old photograph. The shortcomings of this section are indicative of book's overall problems. There is no narrative or analysis of how baseball came to island, why and how it was adopted, how it fit into local culture, and when and how leagues were created. It is just a litany of anecdotal information, leaving reader frustrated with unanswered questions. Section two consists of 117 pages covering each season from 1947 to 2006. These summaries are disjointed without an overarching narrative. Some seasons are written by former players, some are reprinted newspaper accounts, and others are created by author. Most of these accounts merely list facts, game summaries, and team rosters. Few stories could appeal to those not involved in league. The third section focuses on Micronesian and Mobil Games, tournaments that allow Palauan teams to test their skill against rival nations. Once again, entries consist of detailed game summaries that make for dull reading, with one exception. Bob Coldeen offers a lively discussion of how Palau brought home their first gold medal in 1969 Micronesian Games. Next is a series of interviews with former players and managers. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.116 | 0.031 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".