Back in 2018 the confectionary company Meito gave away baseball cards with
boxes of their "Central League Home Run Ice Cream" products. There were 36 cards in all and - as you might assume from the product name - they only featured players from the Central League. My suspicion is that there were six cards for each team but I don't know that for sure.
I knew these cards existed (
Zippy Zappy had tipped me off when they came out) but I don't think I'd ever seen any of them. I had done some searches for them on Yahoo! Japan Auctions but never found them. I looked around some in stores in Japan last year but came up empty then as well.
Fast forward to yesterday when I'm going through the box of stuff
Ryan had sent me and I discover some cards that I didn't recognize. It took me a little bit before I recognized the logo on the cards was the same as Meito's - Ryan had sent me five of the cards. Here's what they look like:
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| #01 |
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| #17 |
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| #25 |
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| #29 |
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| #32 |
Here's what the backs look like:
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| #01 |
Unlike some of the other recent food issues, these don't appear to have been made by either BBM or Epoch.
