Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle (series)
下剋上球児- User score: 8
- Production country: Japan
- Creator: Satoko Okudera
- Production companies: TBS
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 10/15/2023
- Release date of last episode: 12/17/2023
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 10
- Run time: 60 min.
Series description
Based on a true story depicted in the non-fiction book “Gekokujou Kyuuji Mie Kenritsu Hakusan Koukou Koushien Made no Miracle.” The story follows Nagumo Shuuji, a social studies teacher at Mie Prefecture’s Etsuzan Senior High School, who was a former baseball player up until university when he quit after sustaining an injury. Thereafter, he worked as a sports trainer but returned to university at 32 years old in order to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher. However, his peaceful daily life goes through a change after he’s appointed to be the advisor of his school’s baseball club that is on the verge of abolition.