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Baseball is the best.
Ran Nakano is the only girl among the 89 members of Higashi Nippon International University Shohei’s baseball team.
She’s a third-year student and usually works as a team manager, helping with game operations and keeping an eye on the players’ condition. At Koshien, she was registered as the team’s scorekeeper.
After their run came to an end, she knelt down and collected some of the dirt from Koshien to take home with her.
“It was a great three years.”
“Thank you, high school baseball.”
For Japanese high school baseball players, taking home dirt from Koshien after their final game is a long-standing tradition — a small piece of the place they spent years dreaming of reaching.