"I love baseball"

I bought a t-shirt last year with this phrase (壱球人魂) written on it, front and back. Below the phrase on the front, it says (in English), I love baseball.

A literal translation of the kanji is "One sphere (ball) spirit of dead person".

I have two questions.

1) is this translation correct?

and

2) Am I missing something on how to interpret the kanji?

I seem to be having trouble transitioning from the literal translation to what it actually means?

The phrase is 一球入魂 written with the old kanji 壱 for 一 (one).

Literally each of the kanji means "one/single," "ball," "put in," and "soul," and strung together the phrase means "place all your heart and soul into each ball (you throw)." It is a phrase for enthusiastic baseball players :)

I hope that they have the right kanji - look at the third one carefully. It should be 入, not 人.

The kanji is definitely "人". So, I'm assuming that "I love baseball" is a fairly accurate transliteration, eh? Just wanted to make sure.

I find the translation of the kanji into English not that big a deal. My problem is translating the translation.

Thanks, AK.

The whole phrase shows that you are enthusiastic about baseball anyway :) So that's quite OK, though the phrase is more for players, not for spectators.

Well, if it's 人, it's a different kanji from 入, which it should be (please look at the top carefully). that's the only thing I wanted to point out about the kanji itself.

This kanji, "入" makes more sense than "人". It's probably a misprint.

Thanks, again.