Da baseball-stjernen Billy Chapel går på banen til sæsonfinalen, er det med ryggen mod muren. Fra toppen kan det kun gå nedad, og Billy har lige fået at vide, at han er til salg. Samtidig har hans kæreste gennem fem år gjort det forbi. Under kampen tænker han tilbage på sin karriere og sin kærlighed. Er det altsammen slut, eller har han chancen for at vende det hele, hvis han spiller den perfekte kamp, som alle spillere drømmer om?
Da San Franciscos baseballklub The Giants betaler midtbanespilleren Bobby Rayburn (Wesley Snipes) 40 millioner dollars for at føre holdet til verdensmesterskabet, er der ingen, der udtrykker mere glæde eller støtte end hans største fan Gil Renard (Robert De Niro). Men da Bobby bliver udsat for sin karrieres største dyk, vil den besatte Gil rent bogstaveligt gøre alt for at hjælpe sit idol tilbage til toppen... Endda begå mord!
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
Ren Mihashi was the ace of his middle school's baseball team, but due to his poor pitching, they could never win. Constant losses eventually lead to his teammates bullying him and reached the point where his teammates no longer tried to win, causing Mihashi to graduate with little self-esteem. As a result, Mihashi decides to go to a high school in a different prefecture where he has no intention of playing baseball. Unfortunately, upon his arrival at Nishiura High, he is dragged into joining their new team as the starting pitcher. Although unwilling at first, Mihashi realizes that this is a place where he will be accepted for who he is; with help from the catcher Takaya Abe, he starts to have more confidence in his own abilities. Abe, seeing the potential in Mihashi, makes it a goal to help him become a pitcher worthy of being called an ace.
A wild and overzealous baseball player is scouted and trained by the Yomiuri Giants as their new star pitcher.
The first female professional baseball player who strikes out sluggers with her magical pitch... The manager who makes every effort to amend the Baseball Regulations so that she can join the pros... The separated twin brothers who couldn't have met each other if they weren't both totally absorbed in baseball... This series describes the joys and distress, the glory and frustration of those who enthusiastically love baseball.
A young boy, J. Shuro, meets the legendary pitcher Eiji Sawamura in the Philippines during World War II. Sawamura shares his dreams of one day gathering the nine Astro Superhumans – who all were born nine minutes and nine seconds past nine on September 9th of the 29th year of Showa (1954) and all have baseball-shaped birthmarks on their bodies – to form the ultimate baseball team capable of beating the Yomiuri Giants and any U.S. Major League team. When Sawamura dies during the war, Shuro decides to help fulfill his idol’s dream and goes in search of the nine ball players. But the team that is formed does not play ordinary ball. These extraordinary players demonstrate extraordinary plays on the field and some will not stop until everything – even their lives – is left on the field.
