The story of Major 2nd will continue with a second season. And now, the staff have announced that the anime will premiere in 4th April via NHK Educational. They also revealed a brand new key visual for the second season as well:

The staff also announced that Daiki Yamashita is joining the cast as rookie Akira Nishina. Much of the original cast are also returning as well. In fact, Natsumi Fujiwara is returning as Daigo Shigeno, as well as Kana Hanazawa as Mutsuko Sakura.

Ayumu Watanabe will also be retrurning as director over at OLM. Michihiro Tsuchiya is also gonna be coming back is scriptwriter as well, alongside character designer Miki Matsumoto.

Summary via Crunchyroll:

Shigeno Daigo is an elementary school student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a Major League player, Daigo started playing baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth league team. He was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, however, and quit baseball after less than a year. Then, in the spring of his sixth-grade year, Daigo’s school welcomes a transfer student who’s just returned from America. The transfer student is Sato Hikaru, and it turns out his father is Sato Toshiya, a former Major League player and Goro’s close friend. The fate of these two young men begins to move forward!

source: Comic Natalie