PLAYBALL

Play Ball

is a manga series by Akio Chiba which ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1973 to 1978, which was adapted in 2005 and 2006 into an anime series by Magic Bus, aired across Japan on the anime satellite television network, Animax. The series was released concurrently with Chiba's other major work, Captain, the other series for which he won the 22nd Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1977.


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play ball

Verb

  1. To start anything tumultuous.
  2. To work together; to cooperate.
    The politicians refused to play ball with the journalists
  3. An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball.


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