The manga has been serialized in the magazine since its November 2003 issue and won the 31st Kodansha Manga Award in the general section in 2007.
It was announced in the latest October 2017 issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon that a stage play adaptation of Asa Higuchi’s high school baseball manga Ookiku Furikabutte/Big Windup! is set to be performed at Sunshine Theater in Tokyo in February 2018.
The manga’s first stage play adaptation is written/directed by 55-year-old Yutaka Marui, the representative of the Tokyo-based theater company Caramelbox, and this is his first adaptation work based on a popular Japanese manga.