Star of the Giants (1968)
Original title: 巨人の星
Star of the Giants is a 1968 Japanese-language action & adventure series created by Ikki Kajiwara. It stars Toru Furuya, Joji Yanami and Makio Inoue.
In 1969, at the press conference of Nagashima Shigeo who was joining a professional baseball team, Yomiurhi Kyojin, a ball was thrown at him by a boy. He was Hoshi Hyuma, and a thrown ball meant a letter of challenge. His father, Hoshi Ittetsu, had trained Huma since he had been very young to achieve his dream to make him a professional baseball player.