As it so happened, 1984 also was the year that the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed. But what more immediately concerns and affects the lives of this sport movie's underdog protagonists is the setting up by Mr Lo (Liu Kai Chi), the headmaster of a Band 3 secondary school in the (then) new town of Shatin, of a school baseball team that would have to play and compete with teams whose players were foreigners (Americans, Japanese, etc.) living in Hong Kong rather than fellow Hong Kongers.