The series is about Harada Takumi and Gō Nagakura, two boys who start a baseball team.

For the work the author received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 and the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005.

[2] It has sold over 10 million copies in Japan,[3] and has been adapted into a film in 2007[4] and an anime television series in 2016.

This story is about a young baseball pitcher named Takumi Harada who just recently moved in with his grandfather, a former coach at Nitta High School.

An anime television series adaptation aired on July 14, 2016, on the Noitamina block of Fuji TV[7][6] and concluded on September 22, 2016.