Every winter, the best young baseball prospects from the United States and Japan come to Hawaii to play ball. They are the Boys of Winter Not far from Pearl Harbor, where their grandfathers began a world war, they come as strangers, then become teammates. They become Sharks, Stingrays, Stars and Canefires. Somehow, without sharing words, they also become friends.
Baseball is their language, it is their bond.
Through baseball, they learn how much they share in common. This is the story of the Hawaii Winter Baseball League. Some of these prospects are top draft choices. Some are the sons and brothers of big leaguers. Some are scratching to make a name for themselves as professional ballplayers.