As the captain of the baseball team, I'm not actually from Osaka, not even from Kansai. I'm actually from Gunma Prefecture, so I came to play in Osaka and I thought I was studying abroad in baseball.

As for asking me why I came all the way to Osaka to play, it was not only because they invited me, but also because it was so close to Koshien. For a long time, I thought Koshien Stadium was in Osaka Prefecture, but I didn't know until I went to high school that it was actually in Hyogo Prefecture.

But if you think about it, those two schools in Osaka Prefecture are probably more famous than any other school in Hyogo Prefecture. That's right, it's Osaka Kiryo and Ritseisha.

Many people are saying that if these two schools meet in the prefectural competition, it will be the Koshien finals that will be staged in advance. Some people are also saying that the number of places in Osaka Prefecture is too small, and every year at least one of the two strong men of Hagar will miss Koshien.

In recent years, the battle record of these two giants is basically five to five, and the number of times they have entered Koshien is also comparable. But if you compare the number of times you have dominated the country, it is not difficult to find that Osaka Kiryo has won the Koshien championship several times, both spring and summer armor, and Ritsuseisha did not have one before I entered the school.

However, I think I was a very lucky person, and in the summer of my freshman year of high school, Ritsusei won the Koshien championship for the first time. Although I sat on the bench from beginning to end, I was also selected by Coach Honggu to enter the first team squad, and I also shared the joy of dominating the country at the nearest distance.

However, in my sophomore year of high school, I was already the main player of the team, but we lost to Osaka Kiriyo in the prefectural tournament and failed to break into Koshien. Of course, Osaka Kiriyo were naturally considered favourites after reaching Koshien, but they lost to eventual champion Akashi Chaofeng in the quarterfinals.

If you think about it, although the school in Osaka Sei has won the Koshien championship many times, it is by no means a championship every year, and the Koshien finals that were staged in advance are also somewhat exaggerated. Sure enough, there are things on the national stage that are not available on the local stage, and you can only know if you go there in person.

In this era, smartphones have become popular, and it seems that it is nothing new for elementary school students to have smartphones. The app I use the most is LINE, and I have a habit of exchanging LINE with interested players whenever I have a game with a foreign school team (especially from other places), so as to expand my network, grasp the information of all the strong heroes in the country, and prepare for the next time I dominate the country as the main force.

But all I could get was some gossip about these schools.

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After the summer season of my sophomore year, I was appointed as the new captain. But in fact, I am not a catcher, nor am I a 4-batter, maybe the coach saw that I was a very social person, so he made such a decision.

Although the seniors have just retired, there are also ACE casting Akai and Aonuma in the team, 4 sticks are Black Hanoi, and there is a genius Huang Mu who is one year younger than us but has entered the center base, and if there are some newcomers next year, our lineup is definitely comparable to the Galaxy Battleship, looking at the whole country, this kind of paper strength can be said to be the strongest.

We got our revenge on Kiriyo Osaka at the Autumn Tournament, and then we defeated the summer champion Akashi Chaofeng at the Tournament, and I was even more convinced that we were the strongest. But after that, I was slapped in the face and we lost in the semi-finals to the big dark horse of the year, Mofeng High School.

"You're the captain of the baseball club now, and you're responsible for the team from your usual training to your last game! It's just that after winning the main general, what is there to be proud of in Akashi Chaofeng? You see what the semi-finals look like? If you don't restrain your arrogant character, don't be the captain!"

After the autumn game, I was severely criticized by Coach Honggu, and I was really close to crying that day.

I deeply realized that high school baseball is like sailing against the current, and if you are only satisfied with the small achievements in front of you, you will be overtaken by your opponents. And even if we have the strongest strength on paper, it doesn't mean we can win every game. If you want to win a national championship like your seniors, you have to take every opponent and every game seriously.

Speaking of which, I suddenly remembered Hyogo

The county Chengfeng High School's Dongguo Qi and Nanshii. We had just won the Summer Championship that year, and we thought we could take advantage of the situation to dominate the autumn tournament, but in the autumn tournament, they defeated Osaka Kiritsu and us one after another. We were very impressed with Ace Dong Guo and Scud Minami, and that match gave me a big impact.

It's a pity that Dongguo later died suddenly due to a terminal illness, and although Nan took over the position of ACE, he failed to make it to Koshien in the summer tournament this time, and he was defeated in the first game in the autumn tournament, and I don't know if there will be a chance for revenge in the future.

There was another contestant who also caught my attention, and he was the second-year ace Homiya Tomo of Kyoto Dairekaze, Kyoto Prefecture. His name is very close to me, and I heard that there are already many people playing memes on the Internet. However, what I care more about is that his joining has made a qualitative leap in the strength of the Kyoto Great Lingfeng, and it seems that it has the strength of the national powerhouse all of a sudden, especially when many people say that the current Kyoto Great Lingfeng has the shadow of the legendary Lingfeng Temple. It's a pity that I haven't fought with them yet, and whether this is the case or not is only known after fighting.

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In the spring armor after being promoted to the third year of high school, we met Akashi Chaofeng again in the semi-finals, at this time their main player Nikaido had returned, and the strength really went up a notch, and after 11 rounds of hard fighting, we finally lost 3-5. This Akashi Chaofeng is known as the strongest in history, and if they want to dominate the country again in the final summer, they will be the biggest obstacle.

In the spring tournament that followed, we didn't send out the strongest lineup, but we still made it to the tournament. Then Kyoto Dareikaze and Seikaze also made it to the Tournament, so we had a chance to play them before Hagar. In the semi-finals, we really faced Kyoto Daerekaze, and if we win, we might even face Kazuki in the final.

Before the game, I deliberately found ACE Fire Palace and added his LINE. Even if we didn't send the whole main force to fight, the strength of the front line was still very impressive. But as a result, we were suppressed by the fire palace to only 1 point, and in the end the game was lost because of my captain's mistake. This game has been enough to prove that the existence of the second-year ACE of the fire palace has indeed made Kyoto Dareikaze a quite strong team. But if Hagar is lucky enough to meet again, we won't lose again!

Before the summer game, in addition to the official spring game, there will be no shortage of practice games. For those of us in the third grade, in addition to training, these games have a special meaning, which is to attract the attention of scouts. After all, we are also a national powerhouse, I am afraid that most of the main players will aim for professional baseball, and I am one of them, in fact, there are many clubs that contact me. cao

Sure enough, at this time, in addition to thinking about the summer game, do you have to think about the longer term......

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(To be continued)