I have a lot of Sadaharu Oh cards.
This isn't a complaint, it's just a statement. According to my database, I have in the neighborhood of 200 cards of Oh. That includes probably something like 100 or so from during his playing career. I have so many cards of Oh that I really don't see the point in adding many more. I mean, sure, Oh was a great player but, at this point, I'd rather spend my money on cards of players that I don't have 200 cards of, especially since Oh's cards tend to carry a premium.
But every so often, I see a card of Oh that I can't resist and I saw one a while back on Ebay. Nippon-Ham had issued baseball cards in the mid to late 1970's and there was a guy on Ebay selling several Oh cards from their sets at not outrageous prices. I saw this card and decided I needed to grab it for the $25 "buy-it-now" price:
This card commemorates Oh hitting his 756 home run to pass Hank Aaron on September 3rd, 1977 and was from a special set of seven cards that Nippon-Ham issued for this event. I was amused that the back appears to reproduce the scoreboard at Korakuen Stadium when Oh hit the home run:
