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Two(or more)-Time Nippon Series MVP Award Winners
After Corey Seager of the Texas Rangers won his second World Series MVP award last week, George Bennett did one of his "Carpet o’ Cards" tweets showing all four players who were two-time World Series...
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Card Of The Week November 12
This past weekend I made my way up to New York to see one of the "Titanes Del Caribe" games, a three game series between Águilas Cibaeñas and Tigres del Licey of the Dominican Winter League (aka LIDOM)...
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2023 Asian Baseball Championship Samurai Japan Team
The 2023 Asian Baseball Championship will kick off in Tokyo in a little more than 24 hours from right now. National Teams from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia will play a round-robin...
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Japanese Players In the Australian Baseball League (And Other Winter Leagues)
The 2023-24 Australian Baseball League will kick off tomorrow (or today if you're in Australia or Japan) and it will have a little bit of a different look this year. The league has reverted back to...
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Card Of The Week November 19
A quick post about two MVPs (and not the one you might have expected):The Korea Series wrapped up last Monday with the LG Twins defeating the KT Wiz to win their first KBP championship since 1994 (and...
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Japanese Cards From Korea
I bought some Japanese cards from my friend Dan - aka Korean Cardboard - a few weeks back and the package got delivered to my house yesterday. I thought I'd do a quick post on what I got from...
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2003 Asian Baseball Championship Japanese National Team
Twenty years ago this month, Japan unveiled its first National Baseball Team made up entirely of professional players. The event the team was playing in was the 2003 Asian Baseball Championship which...
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Recent Ebay Pickups
I wanted to do a quick post about some cards I picked up off Ebay in the last few weeks. The first is my second "Printing Plate". This one is from BBM and is for Masataka Yoshida's card in the 2021...
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Hmmm
I got an email from a reader after my post the other day about some recent Ebay pickups that included a BBM "Printing Plate" Masataka Yoshida. In the email, the reader asked me if there was anything...
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Card Of The Week November 26
The big NPB free agent news this past week was that pitcher Sachiya Yamasaki had left the Orix Buffaloes to join the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Yamasaki's father Akihiro had also been a baseball...
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It's almost December and there's still a couple 2023 sets that have been announced. And so far there hasn't been any news about any 2024 sets yet.- What I'm expecting to be BBM's last release for the...
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2023 Award Winners
NPB announced their major award winners today and Shoki Murakami of the Tigers and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Buffaloes were the MVPs of the Central and Pacific Leagues respectively. Yamamoto has...
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2013 Panini USA Baseball Japanese All Stars Signatures - Where Are They Now?
Ten years ago this week, Panini released the 2013 edition of their USA Baseball set. This set was sold in boxes that included the complete 63 card base set, seven autograph or autograph/memorabilia...
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Latest COMC Order - Calbees And More
I wanted to a quick post about my most recent pickups from COMC. As usual it involved several mid-70's Calbees but there were some more recent cards as well.We'll start with this card of Akihiko Ohya...
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Card Of The Week December 3
Last week there was a late addition to the list of NPB players playing in the Australian Baseball League this winter. Eagles pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa joined the Perth Heat in time to play in their...
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Zippy Zapped Yet Again!
I got home from work yesterday to discover a surprise package waiting for me from the "Kyle Freeland Fan Club" which I pretty quickly realized was Kenny (aka Zippy Zappy). This isn't the first time...
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Card Of The Week December 10
After the 1980 season, Gary Thomasson of the Dodgers signed a three year, $1.2 million contract with the Yomiuri Giants, making him the highest paid player in NPB history. There was a lot of pressure...
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Mail Day!
I wanted to do a quick post about a couple cards I got in the mail yesterday. First up is another custom card from Gio of "When Topps Had Balls" showing Isao Harimoto using the 1979 Topps design which...
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Twenty Years Of First Pitch
At some point during the 2004 season, someone at BBM got the idea that they should include a subset of celebrities throwing out the first pitch at ballgames. As a result, the 2nd Version set that year...
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Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants
Former Kiwoom Heroes star Lee Jung-hoo signed a six year contract with the San Francisco Giants today, putting an end to almost a year's worth of speculation about where he was going to end up. Lee...
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