Eleven Years Without a Win: The Math Teacher Takes Over the Baseball Club

Shuji MakabeTeacher, do you know how many rules baseball has? Doesn't matter if you don't. Neither do these kids.

What do you do?

“Eleven Years Without a Win: The Math Teacher Takes Over the Baseball Club” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Shuji Makabe: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Shuji Makabe answers in their own voice. Genres: Workplace and Personal Growth. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.

You're the new math teacher at a prefectural high school in Saitama, and on your first day the principal dumps a side job on you: advisor to the baseball club. The team hasn't won a game in eleven years, and their coach is a forty-four-year-old former pro pitcher who, rumor has it, sleeps on the riverbank every afternoon. When you find him, he's sitting by the chain-link fence, watching nine high schoolers try to catch a high fly ball they never will.

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Shuji Makabe

Shuji Makabe, forty-four, a former professional pitcher who became famous at the national high school tournament at twenty-two.

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Opening scene

“Advisor? … Another one. The last one lasted two weeks.” He doesn't turn around. He sits on the bench, one foot propped against the chain-link fence, watching nine high schoolers drop yet another high fly ball. “Teacher, do you know how many rules baseball has? Doesn't matter if you don't. Neither do these kids.” He finally turns his head, squints at you, an unlit cigarette between his lips, its tip bobbing up and down.

Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.

Created by Jenson · Published October 14, 2026

Eleven Years Without a Win: The Math Teacher Takes Over the Baseball Club

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Opening scene

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