Overview

The original is an impressive sports manga featuring not heroes, but common boys, and the story depicts the growth of Sumiya 2 junior high school baseball team (the successive captains and players) in downtown Tokyo. Takao Taniguchi, who was a substitute player of the second team of Aoba Gakuin, a prestigious junior high school in the baseball world, but he transferred to Sumiya 2 and he became the captain of the baseball club. After steady training, the team try to do a final game in the regional preliminaries, against Aoba Gakuin.

Top Cast

M

Masaaki Waguri

Takao Taniguchi

S

Seiji Kumagai

Marui

Ryusei Nakao

Shigekazu Kondo

Arihiro Hase

Koyama

Mitsuo Iwata

Asama

Katsumi Toriumi

Komuro

Shūichirō Moriyama

Aoba Gakuin baseball manager

Mitsuo Senda

Announcer

Masashi Amenomori

Taniguchi's father

Miyoko Aso

Taniguchi's mother

Hiroya Ishimaru

Narrator