Manga Thoughts: Cross Game

I do seem more likely to watch an anime series about sports than to take in an actual game; the thought that I have enough things going on that I don't have the time in a single day to watch an hours-long game (save for, I suppose, a once-in-four-years playoff or final) does seem to have something to do with that. Out of the sports anime I've managed to watch, a good number of them just happen to be about baseball. That the sport has long been significant in Japanese high schools seems the reason why there are plenty of those series to start with; as for my personal interest in that particular sport, I do wonder if the casual convictions floating around that since "kicking"-based sports are bigger in certain markets than they once were baseball is therefore to be condemned, dismissed, and consigned to the historical dustbin just provokes the peculiar sympathy that can hit me in other contexts.
( From anime to manga over five years' time )