original manga art splash page baseball hero issue - Hiroshi Kaizuka - 600$

size is about 10" x 15"

it was published in the New Year special issue of Monthly Shonen Jump in 1975, the year after Nagashima’s retirement. In a feature titled "Baseball Hero Issue," this page is one of the first pages from the manga, which were done in full color. The manga is set in 1970, and is about Nagashima, and tells the story of how he overcame hard days. The figure of Shigeo Nagashima is not confined to professional baseball: he has been engraved into Japanese culture as one of the nation’s stories and character archetypes. A rare superstar who embodied postwar Japan’s dreams and courage not by imposing them on others but by sharing them through experience