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May 3, 2012

What is the best baseball-themed Manga or Anime?

Gracias,
Yu Matsuichiro

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John Thacker

11 years ago

Cross Game (like the other series by Mitsuru Adachi) has very, very realistic baseball. It is a manga (and anime) where everyone really likes baseball. The baseball action depicted is superior to most others.

It is at least as accurately described as a depiction of baseball that happens to have a romantic comedy in it.

For example, in the anime they will frequently have characters in the background move to back up a play even when this is not actually relevant to the plot. (i.e., the throw is made normally, backing up isn’t relevant.) That’s a sign of extra attention to detail, because normally the background would be ignored (to save time and money) unless something were going to occur.

BAL	CHW	LAA
BOS	CLE	OAK
NYY	DET	SEA
TBR	KCR	TEX
TOR	MIN	HOU

ATL	CHC*	ARI
MIA	CIN	COL
WSN	MIL	LAD
NYM*	PIT	SDP*
PHI	STL	SFG