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2006 BBM 2nd Version
2006 BBM 2nd Version Set SummarySize: 311 cards (numbered 502-812)Cards Per Team: 16 (team card + 15 players)Team Card Theme: Game Action/CandidsNumber Of Leader Cards: N/AChecklists: NoneSubsets:...
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Card Of The Week March 2
Mission Accomplished.Almost a year ago when I traveled to Japan for the first time I was looking for (among other things) around 150 cards from BBM's 1st Version sets from 2004 and 2005. These were...
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Iconic
The first card in the first Calbee set was Shigeo Nagashima. This should not be a big surprise as there was no one bigger in NPB in 1973 than Shigeo Nagashima. The picture on that first card is a bit...
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2014 Epoch OB Club Shigeo Nagashima Memorial Treasures Set
I have not been a fan of Epoch's sets with the Japan Baseball Promotion/OB Club/All Japan Baseball Foundation sets from the past few years. Generally I've found their card designs unattractive and...
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2014 BBM Farewell Set
One of the sets I got from Ryan the other day is my first BBM set for 2014 - the "Farewell" set. This is the fourth annual edition of this set which is dedicated to the players who retired at the end...
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Suk-Min Yoon of the Baltimore Orioles
Somehow in all the snow and everything in the last few weeks it kind of escaped my notice that Suk-Min Yoon, formerly of the Kia Tigers in Korea, had signed with the Baltimore Orioles. It's a little...
View ArticleYet More New BBM Sets
Information on five new BBM sets hit the web this past week:- Lasr year BBM did a box set called "Icons - Hope" that contained cards of what BBM felt were the most hopeful young players for each team...
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2001 Calbee Pack Busting
I bought a lot of 50 2001 Calbee packs off Ebay last week and I thought I'd do a post on what I got.The seller actually sent me 51 packs. They were all from 2001 Series One. That set had 72 regular...
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Card Of The Week March 9
Dr. Frank Jobe, the surgeon famous for developing the pitcher career saving procedure known as "Tommy John surgery" passed away last week at age 88. Among the pitchers who Jobe helped was Japanese...
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2013 Box Sets
Among the goodies I got from Ryan of This Card Is Cool were nine box sets from last year. Five of those sets were produced by "Front Runner Trading Cards" (or Frontier International) and will be the...
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Nittaku Home Flyers And The Amazing Technicolor Uniforms
In a post the other day, I pointed out that the Nittaku Home Flyers, the 1973-only stepping stone between the Toei Flyers and the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, had apparently trotted out the idea of...
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2013 Front Runner Trading Card Box Sets
The final group of items from the box of goodies Ryan sent me a few weeks ago were a group of five box sets from last year that were produced by Front Runner Trading Cards (aka Frontier International,...
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Card Of The Week March 16
Last week I did a post on how Choji Murata was the first Japanese pitcher to undergo Tommy John surgery under the knife of the late Dr Frank Jobe. Greg Dunn left a comment asking if maybe Masaharu...
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Owners League Pack Busting
I'm not a big collector of either the Konami or Bandai game cards but I had an opportunity to pick up a couple packs of Bandai's Owners League cards in the last few months so I grabbed them just to see...
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2014 BBM Brilliant Teenagers
When is a historic set not an historic set? How about when it contains more active players than retired players. For the past 10 years or so, each of BBM's annual "Historic Collection" sets have...
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Card Of The Week March 23
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...
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2014 BBM Dragons Legend
The latest team to be "honored" by BBM with a Legends set is the Dragons. The theme of this set is the Senichi Hoshino managerial era from 1987 to 2001. That's actually two separate managerial stints...
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2014 BBM Eagles 10th Year Memorial
The Tohoku Rakuten Eagles came into existence in 2005 as a replacement for the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, who had "merged" with the Orix Blue Wave to become the Orix Buffaloes (they were not really...
View ArticleAll Future And No Past
This has nothing to do with baseball cards but it's Opening Day in Japan and I thought it might be fun to put together a consensus of pre-season picks by people who know much more than I do about...
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Card Of The Week March 30
Opening Night Eiichi Koyano of the Fighters hit a bases loaded single in the bottom of the twelfth inning to beat the Orix Buffaloes 6-5. I just recently discovered (via NPB Tracker) that Pacific...
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