Hot Stove League ( Korean : 스토브리그 ) is a South Korean television series that aired on SBS TV from December 13, 2019, to February 14, 2020. The series stars Namkoong Min , Park Eun-bin , Oh Jung-se , and Jo Byeong-kyu . It revolves around a baseball team named Dreams, which has been the worst in the league for four consecutive years.
4-519: Hot Stove League received critical acclaim and several awards, including Best Drama at the 56th Baeksang Arts Awards . Namkoong won his first Grand Prize (Daesang) at the 28th SBS Drama Awards . The Dreams are a Korean professional baseball team that have placed last in the league for the past four seasons. When their general manager steps down, the team hires Baek Seung-soo, who has managed several championship winning sports teams, as his replacement, despite Seung-soo having zero experience with managing
8-460: A baseball team. Facing shrinking budgets, infighting between the coaching staff and a team deeply set in their ways, Seung-soo uses his outsider's insight and the help of operations manager Se-young and Jae-hee to upend the Dreams' culture in a bid to create a championship winning team, despite the looming fact that every team he has managed before has folded after winning the championship. The series
12-616: Is based on Lee Shin-hwa's screenplay, which was one of the winners in the 2H 2016 MBC Drama Screenplay Contest (Miniseries Category). Namkoong Min and Park Eun-bin previously worked together as second leads in Hur Jun, The Original Story (2013). The first script reading took place in September 2019. Munhak Baseball Stadium , home stadium of the South Korean professional baseball team SK Wyverns who gave their support to
16-746: The series, served as a filming location and was used in one teaser poster. Scenes taking place in California were filmed in Hawaii . After episodes 10 and 11 were divided into three parts instead of two, viewers expressed their discontent concerning the advertisements on the program's website. Following the success of the drama, the cast and crew went on a four-day reward vacation to Saipan on February 17, 2020. Baeksang Arts Award for Best Drama The Baeksang Arts Award for Best Drama ( Korean : 백상예술대상 TV부문 드라마 작품상 ; RR : Baeksang Yesul Daesang TV Bumun Deurama Jakpumsang )
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