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Captain (キャプテン Kyaputen) is a baseball manga series by Akio Chiba which ran in Monthly Shōnen Jump (published by Shueisha) from 1972 to 1979. This series ran concurrently with another Chiba manga series Play Ball which ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump (also published by Shueisha) from 1973 to 1978. Captain along with Play Ball won the 22nd Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1977.The manga was adapted into a film by Eiken and released in theaters on 1981-07-18.