Tsuyoshi Nakaima

The story revolves around a 202-pound, 18-year old girl named Okome Akino (whose name is a pun of "autumn rice"). After Okome enters a sumo match and wins against a male amateur fighter by a landslide, a trainer named Akane scouts her, and she enters the world of women's boxing.

Three novice golfers form Team Kiritanpo to compensate for each other's lack of talent, and compete across Japan and the United States.

(from ebookjapan):Goshogawara Kaku is the only member of the traditional Musashiyama High School Sumo Club. However, in order to qualify for the team competition, they need five wrestlers...The helpers Goshogawara has gathered are all extraordinary people. They face the turbulent ring with their spirits and strange strategies! A youthful sports manga full of laughter and excitement!Won the 35th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen in 1989

A transfer student from Okinawa comes to a small and normal middles school called Towadai. Wataru, the transfer student, was an exceptionally gifted athlete but was a problem child. His behaviour was the cause of him to transfer from school to school. He first participated in baseball practice for fun but was heavily recruited by the Towadai team but initially he refused to join. Until he fell in love with the team manager Seki Wakaba. The manga follows Wataru and the Towadai middle school through regional tournaments and then evnetually the national stage. The entire manga depicts one summer but lasted 20 years and has about 58 volumes. The author includes a lot of Okinawan words making it a very unique baseball manga.