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.
Cast
- Masaaki Waguri as Takao Taniguchi
- Seiji Kumagai as Marui
- Ryusei Nakao as Shigekazu Kondo
- Arihiro Hase as Koyama
- Mitsuo Iwata as Asama
- Katsumi Toriumi as Komuro
- Shūichirō Moriyama as Aoba Gakuin baseball manager
- Mitsuo Senda as Announcer
- Masashi Amenomori as Taniguchi's father
- Miyoko Aso as Taniguchi's mother