Tsuchi to Hokori ni Mamiremasu ?), is set in the summer of Taishō 14. The second book in the series, Taishō Baseball Girls: Covered in Dust and Dirt ( 大正野球娘。―土と埃にまみれます Taishō Yakyū Musume. While the first volume can be read as a stand-alone work, the second volume develops the storyline further. One day, Koume's friend, Akiko, asks her to join in an all-girl baseball team and have a match against a boys team. The first book in the series opens in Taishō 14 (1925), introducing Koume ( 小梅 ?), who is the 14-year-old daughter of a yōshoku restaurant owner, and a student at a local girls' academy. During this time, when even running was considered too vulgar for women, baseball is known as "what the boys do" and they face many difficulties when having to find enough members, to get permission from their parents and also when learning about the sport itself. In 1925, after being told by a baseball player that women should become housewives instead of going to school, two 14-year-old Japanese high school girls named Koume and Akiko decide to start a baseball team in order to prove him wrong.
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