TEXT: Boys of last summer: Players from Maebashi Ikuei High School in Gunma Prefecture celebrate winning the 95th National High School Baseball Championship, aka the Summer Koshien, for the first time last August at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. A similar competition — the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament, or Spring Koshien — is held earlier in the year. | KYODO