プレイボール
is a baseball manga series by Akio Chiba which ran in "Monthly Shōnen Jump" (published by Shueisha) from 1972 to 1979. This series ran concurrently with another Chiba manga series "Play Ball", which ran in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" (also published by Shueisha) from 1973 to 1978. "Captain", along with "Play Ball", won the 22nd Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1977. The manga sequel was drawn by Yuji Moritaka himself in February 2017.