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Card Of The Week February 10
Late last August, BBM released a set of cards that commemorated all the no-hitters ever thrown in Japan. About six weeks later, the set was out of date - Yuki Nishi of the Buffaloes no-hit the Hawks...
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2006 World Baseball Classic Roundup
I did a roundup on all the World Baseball Classic cards that Topps put out for the 2009 WBC a few years back, so I felt I should do one for the 2006 Edition as well. Upper Deck had the license for the...
View ArticleNew Old Stuff From BBM
BBM announced a couple of new historic sets last week:- The second installment in BBM's "Greatest Games" series of box sets will highlight a game between the Giants and Tigers on October 22, 1973. By...
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Card Of The Week February 17
Daisuke Matsuzaka signed a minor league deal with the Indians last week, reuniting him with his former Red Sox manager Terry Francona. I thought I'd show a couple very early cards of Dice-K, back when...
View Article2013 Calbee Series One
Calbee announced their first set for 2013 (along with its checklist) on their website this past week. I'm not sure about something with the set - either the "Star" cards are no longer considered an...
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2002 BBM 1st Version
2002 BBM 1st Version Set SummarySize: 439 cardsCards Per Team: 32 (team card, manager + 30 players)Team Card Theme: 2002 Draft ClassNumber Of Leader Cards: 32Checklists: 1 Subsets: 2001 Memorial...
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Card Of The Week February 24
It was looking a little grim for Samurai Japan yesterday. Going into the bottom of the eighth, they were down 2-0 to Team Australia and had been held to only one hit. But with one out, Sho Nakata and...
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Yutaka Entasu, Milwaukee Brewer
I've been intrigued for a while about the fact that a 36 year old Yutaka Enatsu went to spring training as a non-roster invitee with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1985, ten years before Hideo Nomo joined...
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2009 Konami World Baseball Classic
With this year's World Baseball Classic kicking off in a couple hours, I wanted to finally wrap up my discussion of the cards for the 2009 Classic. I finally completed my 2009 Konami WBC set in the...
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Card Of The Week March 3
I've talked about this more than a fewtimes in the past, but I have to do yet another post about it. When Takuro Ishii first broke into NBP back in the late 1980's/early 1990's, he did so as a pitcher...
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In Tokyo
I'm in Tokyo now for the second round of the World BaseballClassic. I'll also be hitting some card shops this weekend and some open-sen games next week. I probably won't blog much while I'm here but...
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Card Of The Week March 10
This is a postcard of Korakuen Stadium, probably from the 1980's. Obviously the stadium is no longer standing as it was demolished to make way for the Tokyo Dome. I am likely somewhere in this area...
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Going home
My flight home leaves in about nine hours and I need to finish packing up. It's been an amazing trip, filled with great baseball and interesting experiences. I hit 10 different card shops and managed...
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Showing Off
I'm trying to get myself organized following the trip - trying to figure out the best way I should post stuff about it. I thought I'd start with a This Card Is Cool style post showing off some of the...
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Card Of The Week March 17
Kenta Maeda goes tonight for Japan against Puerto Rico. Maeda's got an odd little warmup routine called the MaeKen Taiso (H/T Yakyu Baka) that I got to see last Sunday at Tokyo Dome. Hopefully it'll...
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Trip Overview
I apologize for the lack of posts this week. My sleep patterns are still a mess (staying up late to watch the final round of the WBC didn't help) and I've been busy in-processing the roughly 700 cards...
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Card Shops In Japan - Part One
I ended up going to nine cards shops in Tokyo over a three day period, plus another card shop in Yokohama a couple days later. I'm going to do a series of posts summarizing them over the next few...
View ArticleNew BBM Sets
Sorry to interrupt the stream of posts about my trip (now that I've finally started doing them) but BBM waits for no man. There's four sets that have been announced in the last few weeks that I...
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Card Of The Week March 24
This week I'd thought I'd show off two more cards that I picked up in Japan. These are both from the huge 1975/76 Calbee set (1472 cards in all). The first card is Sachio Kingusa (#972). The second...
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Card Shops In Japan - Part Two
Niki, UenoLike Coletre, Discount Niki is an on-line store that has a brick-and-mortar store. While I've known about the on-line store for years, it wasn't until a couple months ago that I realized...
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