
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.
FormatTelevision
Episodes26
Duration25 Minutes
StatusFinished
Start dateMonday, January 10, 1983
End dateMonday, July 4, 1983
SourceMANGA
SeasonWINTER 1983
StudioEiken
Main ProducerNippon Television Network
Genres
Sports
RomajiCaptain (TV)