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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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1983-07-04
S1E26 — Episode 26
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Billed Cast
Masaaki Waguri
Takao Taniguchi
Seiji Kumagai
Marui
Ryusei Nakao
Shigekazu Kondo
Arihiro Hase
Koyama
Mitsuo Iwata
Asama
Katsumi Toriumi
Komuro
Shūichirō Moriyama
Aoba Gakuin baseball manager
Mitsuo Senda
Announcer
Masashi Amenomori
Taniguchi's father
Miyoko Aso
Taniguchi's mother
Hiroya Ishimaru
Narrator
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