

Masahiro Tanaka has made one of his dreams come true, a fantasy he says he could never accomplish playing for the New York Yankees.

Game maker Konami Digital Entertainment on Friday released a baseball game application in Japan produced by the hurler. The game's scenario features a high school teen boy playing for an all-girl baseball club.

“I’ve created a team where everyone is a girl except for me,” Tanaka says in Japanese in one of the TV ads for the smartphone and tablet app. “That's a dream I could never make true even playing Major League Baseball,” he adds.

The goal of the game is to control the male character and lead the team to the national high school baseball championship. There are romantic subplots with the female characters as well, Konami said.

A spokeswoman at the company said that while many athlete-produced games usually don’t include much input from those athletes, Tanaka had provided detailed ideas for the storyline and characters. He was determined to have a male character play for an all-girl baseball team.