October 28, 2010, four days after the final match of the Autumn Tokyo Tournament.
For most people, it's just another ordinary Thursday—those who need to go to school are at school, those who need to go to work are at work. Everything is as usual, without any upheaval.
In Tokyo, inside the New Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa, over 100 baseball players from all over Japan are currently dressed in formal attire, sitting upright in the rooms arranged by the organizers.
Among them, some are freshly graduated high schoolers, unaware of the ways of the world; some are prestigious university graduates full of ambition and anticipation for the future; and still others have been battling in corporate teams for years, already familiar with the ups and downs of society.
Yet at this moment, regardless of where they're from, their age, or their abilities, everyone in the room shares one title: "rookie player" waiting to be selected by one of the 12 Nihon Professional Baseball teams.
