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Astro Kyūdan (manga)

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Alternative title:
Team Astro
アストロ球団 (Japanese)
Genres: tournament
Themes: baseball
Plot Summary: Baseball manager J. Shuro met legendary pitcher Eiji Sawamura as a child in the Philppines during WWII, and heard of Sawamura's dream to have Japan fight America on the baseball field rather than the battlefield. After Sawamura's death Shuro decided to take on his dream by finding nine men who were born nine seconds after 9:09 on September 9, 1954 (the 29th year of the Showa Era). With a baseball-shaped mark on each of them, these men will form Team Astro, the greatest baseball team the world has ever seen.
Number of tankoubon: 20
Chapter titles: We have 100
Vintage: 1972 to 1976 (serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump)
Release dates: We have 6
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 2
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Japanese staff
Japanese companies
Publisher:
Ohta Publishing (1999, 5 volumes)
Shueisha
Japanese cast
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