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Teruaki Sato Rookies
I recently came across an article on SI.com's Collectibles web page entitled "The Top 4 Cards of Teruaki Sato, the Next NPB Superstar" and, I have to say, I was not impressed with it. According to it,...
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Florida Project Completed
In March of 1975, the Yomuri Giants traveled to Vero Beach, Florida, as the spring training guests of the Los Angeles Dodgers. It would neither be the first nor the last time the Dodgers would host...
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Card Of The Week October 11
There are some many things that happened over the past week that would warrant a "Card of the Week" post that I couldn't pick just one. So in more or less chronological order...On Thursday, the...
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Card Of The Week October 4
Apologies for being a day late this week - had some unexpected issues come up that I needed to deal with. With the MLB playoffs getting underway this past week, I thought I'd do a quick post to round...
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Card Of The Week September 27
Last Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Queens defeated the San Francisco Firebells to wrap up the inaugural championship of the Women's Pro Baseball League (WPBL). The two teams had split the first four...
View ArticleAutumn Offerings
I've been needing to write a round up of recently announce sets for a few weeks now but I kept either being to busy to write it or wanted to write something else first. I was thinking that it was fine...
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More Cards From Kenny
Earlier this week, I received the latest envelope full of baseball cards sent from Kenny (aka Zippy Zappy) in Japan. Most of the cards in the envelope were another batch from this year's Topps Stadium...
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RIP Brian Wolfe
Retired pitcher Brian Wolfe tragically passed away last week at age 45 after fighting leukemia. Wolfe spent parts of nine seasons in NPB with three different teams.He was originally drafted by the...
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Card Of The Week September 20
I had always been under the impression that the late Isao Harimoto was the only survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing that ever played professional baseball. I discovered, however, while...
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RIP Isao Harimoto
Another Japanese baseball legend has died. Isao Harimoto, NPB's career hits leader with 3085, passed away on the Wednesday of last week at age 86. Harimoto was born in Hiroshima to Korean parents who...
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Mail Days
I am blessed to have some generous friends who occasionally send me baseball cards out of the blue. I received a couple deliveries in the past week and thought I'd do a quick post to share what I got...
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Card Of The Week September 13
The Hawks were leading Nippon-Ham 4-1 going into the bottom of the eighth inning last Tuesday night in Fukuoka when the wheels fell off for the Fighters. SoftBank battered reliever Shoma Kanemura for...
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Raidel Martinez
On Thursday of this week, Raidel Martinez of the Yomiuri Giants became the second pitcher this season to reach the 250 career saves mark. Martinez did it in 411 career games, the fastest in NPB...
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Samurai Japan WBC Team Members Who Have Played In MLB
I mentioned in my post the other day about the new Topps Chrome Samurai Japan set that I had researched how many players on Japan's six WBC team rosters have played in MLB. There are 37 so far (with...
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Card Of The Week September 6
On Friday night at Jingu Stadium, Hiroki Fukunaga of the Chunichi Dragons led off the game against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows with a home run, his seventh of the season (and third lead off one). Last...
View Article2026 Topps Chrome Samurai Japan set
I feel like there's been a dearth of World Baseball Classic cards from Topps this year so I was intrigued when I heard that Topps was going to release a Samurai Japan set. The initial promo...
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Card Of The Week August 30
Last Thursday saw the 2026 debut of another one of my favorite players, 46 year old Swallows pitcher Masanori Ishikawa. To say it didn't go well would be an understatement - he started against the...
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JMC 2003
Last week when I did my memorial post for Toshio Kanbe, I included a card that I thought was probably Kanbe from what I described as a set "of uncataloged, blank backed cards from around 1975". I got...
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Card Of The Week August 23
My favorite NPB player is slugger Takeya Nakamura of the Saitama Seibu Lions. I had been tracking him as the NPB player most likely to reach 500 home runs for some time, although unfortunately it's...
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RIP Toshio Kanbe
Former Kintetsu Buffaloes and Yakult Swallows pitcher Toshio Kanbe passed away at age 83 about a week ago. Kanbe's path to professional baseball was kind of circuitous as he signed on with the...
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