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.

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Studios

• Nippon Television Network
• Eiken

Staff

• Hidenori Ishida — Sound Effects
• Keisuke Fujikawa — Script (eps 8, 13-16, 20, 21, 24)
• Satoshi Dezaki — Director
• Hidehiko Takei — Producer
• Keizou Shimizu — Character Design, Chief Animation Director
• Toshiyuki Kimori — Music
• Noboru Shiroyama — Script (eps 1-7, 9-12, 17-19, 22, 23, 25, 26)
• Shinji Kobayashi — Sound Effects
• Yonehiko Watanabe — Producer
• Hiroshi Inoue — Sound Effects
• Hidenori Murata — Executive Producer
• Akio Chiba — Original Creator
• Moritoshi Endou — Art Director
• Teruji Takahashi — Director of Photography