Ryan had a couple of interesting posts about 1970's Calbee this past week which made me go take a look at the cards I had from those years. I wanted to see if I had cards from each series of the 1975/76 Calbee set that he listed. Turns out I do not.
But while looking through that binder, I ran into this little beauty from the 1980 set:
This sequence shows Masashi Takenouchi of the Tigers stealing home against the Giants. Looks like he was safe.
I'm pretty sure the catcher is Kazuhiro Yamakura. I was doing a little research on it and I was a bit stymied by the fact that both the Japanese Baseball Database and Baseball Reference claim that Yamakura never played catcher (not surprising they agree as I think the Baseball Reference data came from Japanese Baseball Database). Kazuhiro and I respectfully disagree:
Both sources also only list 27 games played by Giants catchers in 1980 so obviously something's not quite right.
I don't say this to make fun of either data source - they are great references and this is just a minor issue. I know only too well from my own card database how easy it is to input something incorrectly.
But while looking through that binder, I ran into this little beauty from the 1980 set:
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| 1980 Calbee #246 |
This sequence shows Masashi Takenouchi of the Tigers stealing home against the Giants. Looks like he was safe.
I'm pretty sure the catcher is Kazuhiro Yamakura. I was doing a little research on it and I was a bit stymied by the fact that both the Japanese Baseball Database and Baseball Reference claim that Yamakura never played catcher (not surprising they agree as I think the Baseball Reference data came from Japanese Baseball Database). Kazuhiro and I respectfully disagree:
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| 2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #033 |
I don't say this to make fun of either data source - they are great references and this is just a minor issue. I know only too well from my own card database how easy it is to input something incorrectly.