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.
Masaaki Waguri
as Takao Taniguchi
Seiji Kumagai
as Marui
中尾隆聖
as Shigekazu Kondo
長谷有洋
as Koyama
岩田光央
as Asama
鳥海勝美
as Komuro
森山周一郎
as Aoba Gakuin baseball manager
せんだみつお
as Announcer
雨森雅司
as Taniguchi's father
麻生美代子
as Taniguchi's mother
石丸博也
as Narrator
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
Episode 16
Episode 17
Episode 18
Episode 19
Episode 20
Episode 21
Episode 22
Episode 23
Episode 24
Episode 25
Episode 26
