3rd Base 4th

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3rd Base 4th
4番サード (Yonban Sādo)
Genre	shōnen, Sport
Manga
Authored by	Gosho Aoyama
Publisher	Shogakukan
Serialized in	Shonen Sunday
Original run	1993 –
No. of volumes	1

3rd Base 4th (4番サード, Yonban Sādo) is a shōnen manga by Gosho Aoyama.

Its first appearance was in Weekly Shonen Sunday in 1993, and it was one volume long.

[edit] Story

Shigeo Nagashima (長嶋茂雄 Nagashima Shigeo) plays for his school, Kohnan's, baseball team. However he isn't a very good player. One day, he walks into a mysterious store where he buys a baseball bat. Little does he know that the bat is in fact magical. It enables him to hit every pitch, but on one condition: everytime he uses it, he has to pay money to the mysterious store.

Kohnan's team reaches the championship game, where they face another school, Ougane. On the opposing team is Kazuhisa Inao (稲尾 和久 Inao Kazuhisa), who has a baseball glove that is also magical, and can throw the fastest pitches. Like Shigeo, he must also pay for this. But, unlike Shigeo (who has to work very hard for every yen), Kazuhisa can afford this cost.

[edit] Influences

Both Shigeo Nagashima and Kazuhisa Inao are well-known Japanese baseball players in real life.