This is pretty much the only true sports manga I follow or ever have followed, really. Well, and Cross Manage. But anyway--I just can't resist Ei-chan. He's such a likeable little guy, his side romance is cute, and I like the strengths he brings to the game (his foundations being brains, control, a good eye and of course hard work rather than brute power). But mostly he's such a likeable little guy, I never get tired of rooting for him.