A national passion
High-school baseball, with its summer tournament at Koshien, is a Japanese tradition, and anime loves it.
Where to start
Major follows one boy from little league to the major leagues, H2 mixes baseball and romance, and Big Windup! studies every pitch.
Classics
Star of the Giants and Samurai Giants shaped the genre in the 1960s and 1970s.
The shelf
Open Baseball.