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.
Stars: Masaaki Waguri, Seiji Kumagai, Ryusei Nakao, Arihiro Hase, Mitsuo Iwata, Katsumi Toriumi
Crew: Satoshi Dezaki, Toshiyuki Kimori
Country: JP
Studio: Nippon TV
Runtime: 25:14 minutes
Quality: HD
First air date: Jan 10, 1983
Last air date: Jul 04, 1983
Episode: 26 Episode
Season: 1 Season
IMDb: 3
