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RIP Shintaro Yokota
Tragic news out of Kobe yesterday - former Tigers outfielder Shintaro Yokota has passed away from a brain tumor at age 28. Yokota was Hanshin's second pick in the fall 2013 draft and he spent his...
View ArticleTigers Women Vs Giants Women
I wanted to do a quick post mentioning that this Saturday at 1800 JST the Hanshin Tigers' women's team will take on the Yomiuri Giants' women's team at Koshien Stadium. The game will be telecast on...
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Graded Unopened Kabaya-Leaf Packs Available
About a year and a half ago I came across someone selling wrappers for 1967 Kabaya-Leaf packs on Ebay. I contacted the seller and got permission to use his photos for a post. This same gentleman...
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Card Of The Week July 23
The All Star break was last week and Chusei Mannami of the Fighters stole the show. He homered in the first All Star at bat of his career in Game One on Wednesday - the first player to do so since...
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2023 Epoch NPB set
The sixth edition of Epoch's flagship card set - called "NPB" - was released about a month ago. It contains a base set of 444 cards - 432 "regular" player cards and 12 "Legendary Player" ones. I find...
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RIP Taka Miura
Giants and Lions farmhand Takashi "Taka" Miura has passed away at age 45 due to colorectal cancer. Miura was a pitcher for the Toyo University team in the late 90's/early 00's and - along with his...
View ArticleBad News From Calbee And Other New Sets
Time to get caught up on the latest announcement of new sets coming out in the next few months...- Calbee earlier this week finally officially announced the release of the inexplicably delayed Series...
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Panini Suganos
I had mentioned a couple weeks ago that Panini had included redemption cards for autographed cards of Tomoyuki Sugano in their recent Donruss set. It turns out that that's not the only appearance of...
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Card Of The Week July 30
Four years after the Hawks stunned the baseball world by signing American amateur pitcher Carter Stewart, Jr., Stewart last Wednesday earned his first victory at the top level in NPB. It was his fifth...
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Oddball 70's Cards
I saw someone selling these two oddball NPB cards on Ebay a few weeks ago and I couldn't resist picking them up. They're not something I'd ever seen before and I don't believe they're in Engel's...
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Latest COMC Order
I did another order from COMC recently to pick up some more old Calbees. I had placed the order a few weeks back and I'd kind of forgotten what I was getting so it was a bit of a surprise when the...
View ArticleBest Card Shops In Japan?
I recently came across a YouTube video by someone called the "Sports Card Investor" who went to Japan and reported on the "Best Card Shops In Japan". Now, obviously that's a pretty subjective topic as...
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Rocking Out With Yoh Daikan
I finally got a chance to see former Fighter and Giant Yoh Daikan play independent ball here in the States. He had spent last season with Lake Country Dock Hounds of the American Association who play...
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Ohtani's 2013 Baseball Card Chronology
I've fielded a couple questions in the past few months from folks asking what order Shohei Ohtani's various rookie cards were issued in 2013 so I decided that it might make an interesting post. And...
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Card Of The Week August 6
Kazuma Okamoto of the Giants had a good day today, hitting three home runs in Yomiuri's 13-0 trouncing of the Carp. That gives him an NPB leading 30 homers on the season and he's reached that...
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Zippy Zapped Again!
I have been remiss about posting about a nice little RAK package I got from Kenny - aka Zippy Zappy - back in late June. I had tweeted about it when I got it but I forgot to include the photo of the...
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1999 BBM Dream Team
I wanted to do a quick post on the "Dream Team" insert set from the 1999 BBM set. I finished this set a few months back when I got my most recent box of cards from Ryan and have been meaning to post...
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New Old Bromides
I wanted to do a quick post about a couple bromide cards I recently picked up from a seller on Ebay. I've really cut back on buying much vintage but my curiosity was piqued by both of these cards so I...
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Card Of The Week August 13
Crazy game in Nagoya today. Dragons pitcher Yuya Yanagi threw nine no-hit innings against the Hiroshima Carp but with Chunichi's offense being what it is this year, the Dragons failed to score any...
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Jingu On Cards
One of the things I've lamented about Japanese baseball cards over the year is the lack of cards depicting stadiums. Besides the subset in the 1992 BBM set depicting all eleven stadiums then in use,...
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