"Let's get down to business. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info and baseball-related. ”

After a brief silence, Kazuya Takeda forcibly changed the subject.

He was talking about the new superintendent of the baseball club when the school of peace opened in September.

"It's a coincidence, it just so happens to be seniors for you and me."

Takeda showed what he had searched for on his mobile phone to Li Yuanrang.

Tomohito Yagi, 44 years old, is an associate professor at the private Shiratori University...... How could an associate professor come to teach at our university? ”

"Probably because there is only one suitable OB in the Peace Academy."

Li Yuanrang lowered his head and confirmed Associate Professor Yagi's resume.

Born in Hachioji City, Tokyo, he studied at Peace Gakuen in middle school.

However, Yagi did not join the soft baseball club of the Peace School in middle school, but participated in the hard team outside the school.

When I was in college, I went to Kai in Yamanashi Prefecture as a baseball study abroad.

In the third grade, he made it to Koshien and reached the semi-finals as a four-man and ace.

In that year's draft, Yagi was regarded as the number one newcomer in college football. Named by three teams in the first round.

However, there is no Giants that Yagi yearns for.

"The Giants were more inclined to pick college players that year. So Yagi was drawn by the Great Eiei Eagle of Fukuoka. ”

Unable to enter the Giants team he longed for, and did not want to move to Kyushu, Yagi chose to refuse to join the group.

Because he missed the recommended admission deadline of most of Tokyo's top schools, Yagi finally chose to enter Shiratori University, a baseball powerhouse in Tochigi Prefecture.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the school, I had problems with the arm that I overused in college.

I didn't participate in a single official competition in my four years of college. Not to mention participating in the draft again after graduation and entering professional baseball.

"But it's not a bad thing that it's a result now, and finally studied hard to become an associate professor, and now the annual income is higher than that of most professional baseball newcomers."

Li Yuanrang returned the phone to Takeda, and then Takeda came to such a conclusion.

"But if you make a name for yourself in professional baseball, it is possible to earn more than 100 million yuan a year."

Li Yuanrang said.

"Since you have an old injury, you will explode in a professional team. When the time comes, it's not like getting a four- or five-year-end salary and finally being swept away. And the college student selected by the giants in the first round did not become the main force. Five career home runs. In the end, I had to change my career to become a scout. ”

The Giants did not name Yagi in the draft that year, but chose Okei University's infielder, the No. 1 baseball player in college football.

Although this Komori performed well in the second army league, he has not been able to occupy the main position since he was promoted to the first army. It was also less than thirty years old to be outside the combat force.

"But I'm also gossip, and I may not be able to do it accurately."

Takeda leaned back on the café's couch and picked up his iced lemon tea and took a sip.

……

It's September in the blink of an eye. The new supervisor was Tomohito Yagi, an associate professor at Shiratori University, who sent a video of his greetings via the Internet.

"Because of some personnel handover procedures, I can't take office until October, and before that, I can only ask Superintendent Aragaki to act as an agent for a while......

The pre-selection for the fall conference will begin immediately after the start of the school year.

"This time, we are going to host part of the competition as a school."

Instructor Sato attended the lottery ceremony for the Fall Games qualifiers on behalf of the baseball club.

It's different from the summer assembly. More than 100 schools from all over Tokyo participated in the Tokyo Games.

The first stage of the qualifiers divided the teams into twenty-four groups. There are two or three qualifying spots for each group. The qualifier format is nominally divided into different groups, but it is not a round-robin tournament. It's a single-elimination tournament of two to three rounds.

The teams that advance from the group can enter the main tournament for the following autumn tournament.

Group qualifiers are usually held at one of the schools with better facilities in the group. The school that hosts the qualifiers of your group is called the school.

The size of the course meets the requirements and the facilities are good. In addition, this summer, he won the championship of Nishitokyo and entered Koshien.

It would not be a surprise to host the group qualifiers in the fall.

The members of the Peace School Baseball Club, which once made it to Koshien in the summer, are now only ten people in the first and second grades.

However, the summer vacation is over, and a small wave of registration boom has followed.

"I'm Oda in the basketball club, but I seem to have been interested in baseball lately."

"You see, my name is Daisuke, and I was born to play baseball."

There is an endless stream of such newcomers.

Most of these people have little baseball experience. When I entered the school, I completely ignored the recruitment of the baseball club.

Submitting an application now is more to rub off on the popularity of Koshien.

The policy of the new head general, Akio Yabe, is to accept all the application forms.

"New recruits should first strengthen their physical fitness."

For this reason, newcomers are required to run laps around the course during their daily practice time.

Only four remained after three days.

"If we can persevere, we should be able to use it for the baseball club."

All four newcomers have been given back numbers, and they can sit in the rest area to watch the game at the next autumn meeting. However, the chances of playing should not be great.

"Speaking of back numbers, do you want to wear number two at the autumn conference?"

Yabe took the initiative to come up with this.

Lee is now playing almost exclusively as a catcher, but in the summer his number is still the number nine that is commonly used by outfielders.

Considering that the number of the college baseball field and the guard position basically correspond one-to-one, Lee Wonrang accepted Yabe's suggestion.

"Then you're going to wear number nine?"

Li Yuanrang asked.

"No, I have new ideas."

The new number that Yabe chose for himself was the two-digit number eleven.

"One plus one is two, so it's still two."

"You just want to wear it because the 11th is more popular now! And it shouldn't be the pitcher's number, right? ”

Not only in professional baseball, but also in college football, number 11 is also a number commonly worn by pitchers. Normally, the number 11 in college baseball is assigned to two types of players. Either it is the second strongest throw after No. 1, or it is to give No. 1 to the seniors and change to the real trump card of No. 11.

"What's the matter, anyway, there are also professional baseball players who wear No. 11 who can hit more than 20 home runs a year."

……

The craze for joining the club is not limited to the team members. There were also four new managers at once. And...... One of them is a boy.

"This is the clothes that the players changed out of yesterday, and they should all be washed before the end of the practice!"

The rare appearance of the manager "team leader" Asakura is inserting his waist and directing the newcomers to work.

"Isn't our team uniform always washed by the laundromat?"

Li Yuanrang, who was passing by, asked Asakura.

"But if you don't send this guy to do the laundry, he'll keep sticking to the girls and chatting!" (To be continued.) )