This year's ninth issue of Shueisha 's Young Jump magazine has announced on Thursday that Masanori Morita 's Rookies baseball manga will be adapted into a live-action television drama series starting April 19. The story centers on Kōichi Kawatō, a high teacher who attempts to raise his baseball team of delinquents out of suspension and into Japan's Kōshien national championship.

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