in the Japan High School Baseball Federation and within their own school in order to make a serious bid at making it to and winning at Kōshien. More recently, the Manga work "Karin´s Mound" (花鈴のマウンド Karin no maundo) also started playing with the idea that the Girl's National High School Championship would be also played in Koshien Stadium, a thing that still not happens on real life. In the long running baseball video game series Pawapuro Series, it is known that at least three female players (two pitchers and one catcher, until 14) made their name in Kōshien in the main series' original story line (Success Mode) and turned active players in the NPB, through one of them retired later and become a coach and lecturer in Baseball academy. The manga and anime Big Windup! by Asa Higuchi is about high school baseball. It follows the story of a first-year pitcher and his team's struggles to get to Kōshien. It won the Kodansha Manga Award in 2007. In the finale of the anime Zipang, radio broadcast of the "patriotic" 1942 summer tournament is playing in the background when Kadomatsu meets his grandfather back in the past. See also Hanshin Kōshien Stadium High school baseball in South Korea Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball—documentary film National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament National High School Baseball Championship Ōendan References Further reading Whiting, Robert. "The Schoolboys of Summer". You Gotta Have Wa (Vintage Departures, 1989), pp. 239–262. External links A summary of Japanese baseball including Koshien by Jim Allen of Yomiuri Shimbun Japan High School Baseball Database website Japan High School Baseball website Japan High School Baseball Federation website P.O.V. episode on Japanese Highschool Baseball (aired on PBS, July 4, 2006)