8.6/1023 votesLoading...#1 - The one who smiling back home
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/27/2019
Baek Seung Su and his team leave to California to recruit Miles, but they get bewildered by the unexpectedly high cost. In the meantime, Kyung Min offers Seung Su a new amount of money for the down payment of foreign players, and their target changes into someone unsuspected.
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8.5/1024 votesLoading...#2 - Problem from America
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/3/2020
The Dreams has an open recruitment process to fill an opening in the strategy and performance analysis division. Despite Seung Su being unaware, his brother Yeong Su applies for the position, displaying a high level of understanding in statistics and receiving a divided response from the panel of interviewers.
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8.4/1024 votesLoading...#3 - Professional Scout Team
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/21/2019
Baek Seung Su and Lee Se Young call everyone to identify irregularity of the scouting division. Meanwhile, an unexpected guest visits the office and their meeting takes a new turn.
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8.3/1028 votesLoading...#4 - I will trade Lim Dong Gyu
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/14/2019
Rumors spread that the Dreams' new general manager, Baek Seung Su, is planning to trade the team's most famed player, Lim Dong Gyu, for reasons unbeknownst to the employees. Despite backlash and opposition, Baek Seung Su manages to explain his reasons to the employees and successfully negotiates the trade deal.
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8.3/1019 votesLoading...#5 - Sale!
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/14/2020
As Jaesong Group aims to switch its main industry, President Kwon makes the announcement to disband the Dreams. In order to salvage the team, Baek Seung Su urges him to give him a period of one week, in which he makes a bid to an IT company to persuade it to buy the team from Jaesong Group.
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8.2/1024 votesLoading...#6 - The Worst Baseball Team
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/20/2019
Baek Seung Su finds something suspicious about a disagreement between Ko Se Hyeok, the scouting division head, and a scouting division member, Yang Won Seop, at the first-year player draft, regarding the team's selection of player Yu Min Ho over Lee Chang Kwon and tries to seek answers.
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8.1/1030 votesLoading...#7 - I am General Manager Baek Seung Soo
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/13/2019
The Dreams is a frail baseball team continuously landing the last place. In order to have better results the following season, the team finds a new general manager, Baek Seung Su, who despite having little experience with baseball, has a track record of winning with other sports.
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8.1/1021 votesLoading...#8 - How much I should get?
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/10/2020
Despite initial roadblocks in salary negotiations, the Dreams and various players work out their differences and negotiate their contracts. Meanwhile, controversy surrounding Gil Chang Ju's interview on TV and Baek Yeong Su's employment leads to Seung Su receiving some bad news.
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8.1/1021 votesLoading...#9 - Thank you for the dream General Manager Baek Seung Soo
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/11/2020
General Manager Baek Seung Su agrees to resign from his post and Lee Se Young becomes interim general manager. The Dreams manages to bring good results at the 2019 KPB Rule 5 Draft and a sudden interview held with Gil Chang Ju surprises many people and leads to unexpected outcomes.
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8.1/1020 votesLoading...#10 - Good Cop, Bad Cop
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/17/2020
The players' association goes against the Dreams hosting practice sessions with their coaches during off-season. General Manager Baek Seung Su argues that it's only right that even players with lower salaries are allowed to practice and not pressured to rest during the two months.
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8.1/1019 votesLoading...#11 - Lim Dong Gyu return home
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/2020
In order to bring back Lim Dong Gyu back to the Dreams, the general manager persuades the general manager of the Vikings with a deal emphasizing a bright future.
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8.0/1020 votesLoading...#12 - Doubt
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/2020
The entire national baseball league is in a panic due to a drug scandal. Seung Su and General Manager Kim try to protect the Dreams and the Vikings respectively. However, the rumors about the drug-using players are widespread, and the baseball fans start suspecting Kang Du Ki and Lim Dong Gyu leading to Seung Su making an unexpected and important decision.
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8.0/1019 votesLoading...#13 - Somehow I want to protect Dreams
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/8/2020
News spreads of a trade between Kang Doo Ki and two second-string players, handled by President Kwon Kyeong Min. While the general manager is shocked by the decision, the management team rallies behind him to try to work even harder to offset the loss that the trade brought upon the team.
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7.9/1020 votesLoading...#14 - Changes for better
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/18/2020
Kwon Kyeong Min orders Baek Seung Su to cancel plans for the players of the Dreams to go abroad for off-season training. Baek Seung Su convinces three special instructors with a not-so-pleasant history with the team to train the players during the off-season.
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7.9/1020 votesLoading...#15 - Lim Dong Gyu vs Kang Doo Ki
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/31/2020
The Dreams have begun off-season training and they face the Vikings in a practice game. Yu Min Ho is unable to produce the same quality in his pitches as before and the heads and coaches try to find a way for him to improve. Meanwhile, changes in personnel causes uproar in the Dreams' office.
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7.8/1021 votesLoading...#16 - The art of negotiation
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/4/2020
After hearing that total funds for the Dreams will be cut by 30 percent in comparison to the previous year, Seung Su and the management team go into salary negotiations with a determined attitude. They change their way of calculating the salary of each player, to the dismay of some.
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The Best Episodes of Stove League
Every episode of Stove League ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Stove League!
Se Young is the youngest head of the management team of Dreams, a cellar-dwelling baseball team. She's highly recognized for her perseverance and intense passion...
Genre:Drama
Network:SBS
Best Episodes Summary
"The one who smiling back home" is the best rated episode of "Stove League". It scored 8.6/10 based on 23 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/27/2019. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Problem from America".