Avainsana Baseball Pitcher

Billy Chapel on juhlittu baseball-tähti. Hänellä on kaikkea - upea urheilu-ura sekä rakkaussuhde kauniiseen naiseen. Yhtäkkiä Billy saa tietää, että hänen seuransa harkitsee hänen myymistään. Samanaikaisesti Billyn tyttöystävä Jane päättää ottaa etäisyyttä ja muuttaa Lontooseen. Koko Billyn elämä tuntuu hajoavan käsiin, kun hänen on valittava kahden elämänsä rakkauden välillä - baseball vai Jane.

Baseball-fanitus menee överiksi Gil Renardilla, kun liigan paras pelaaja liittyy Renardin suosikkijoukkueeseen. Tähtipelaajan kausi näyttää kuitenkin menevän vahvasti alamäkeen, jolloin Renard ottaa tehtäväkseen korjata tilanteen.

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.

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.

This is the story of Natsunosuke Honda, a pro baseball player—a relief pitcher who has been playing pro in a team called Spiders for 8 years. The team operates as a highly-stratified society, where the player's performance determines his annual salary. Natsunosuke is one of the highest paid players in the game. He measures how good players are by how much money they make, and he intends to be on top and stay there, and as such is always looking for players to challenge and does everything to insure that he is better than they are.

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.