Abu-san (Japanese: あぶさん) is a baseball manga series written and illustrated by Shinji Mizushima.
It tells the story of fictional baseball player Yasutake Kageura (景浦安武, Kageura Yasutake).
It started to be serialized in 1973 in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original,[1] and ended on February 5, 2014, after 976 chapters published in the magazine.
[6] In 2004, Mizushima auctioned off the right to appear as a character in Abu-san for over ¥3 million, as a fundraiser for Mangajapan.
[3] The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks currently honours Squad no.90, which belongs to Yasutake Kageura.