長嶋茂雄
is a Japanese "shōnen" sports manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama. The story depicts the final tournament of high school baseball, at the Hanshin Koushien Stadium in Nishinomiya. The story's main characters are the high school baseball players Shigeo Nagashima and Kazuhisa Inao, whose names are taken from real-life Japanese baseball players Shigeo Nagashima and Kazuhisa Inao.