Inoue Koo

Deep in the mountains of Okuchichibu, Saitama Prefecture, there is a school that has been left behind by its surroundings and is now in ruins. It is a private Okuchichibu High School. A teacher was called to the school, which had no funding, enrollment was declining, and had been repeatedly advised by the prefecture to close. Ryuji Kurosawa, former Meio High School baseball coach. He was specially called in to take this high school, which was on the verge of closure, to Koshien. However, the baseball club in question was disbanded two years ago. In other words, we have to start by creating a baseball club. Kurosawa was about to give up on this almost impossible challenge when a first-year student caught his eye. He was Yamato Nanjo, a baseball prodigy with a hidden talent!

The time has finally come for the Black Nine, which was secretly raised by the owner who was exiled from the professional baseball world, to make its existence known to the world. The fighting spirit of an elementary school student who vows to overthrow the major league starts by hitting the little league world with a large jump ball as a weapon. Big win in the first match. However, the owner of Micon who saw it challenges Black Nine. It was a terrifying game of computer baseball that used a computer to analyze the opponent's weaknesses. Fighting spirit is also broken by the big jump ball, which is his specialty, but...

An early popular baseball manga of Shonen Jump, written by Ikki Kajiwara (Tomorrow's Joe, Tiger Mask, Ai and Makoto).