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Play Ball (2024)
 I'm continuing my Opening Day tradition of doing a post showing a baseball card from the last year that each of the 12 NPB teams won the Nippon Series which was inspired by (or stolen from) the series...
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Oldest BBM Set With An Active NPB Player - 2024 Edition
My OTHER Opening Day tradition each year is posting about the oldest BBM set that has a card of an active NPB player. For the second year in a row, that set is the 2001 one due to the inclusion of...
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NPB Expansion Is Real (But Not What You're Thinking)
I've been following Japanese baseball for about 24 years now and one of the topics I've see bantered around every so often is "when is NPB going to expand?"Â This is probably the second most discussed...
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Card Of The Week March 31
Former Fighters pitcher Naoyuki Uwasawa signed a minor league deal with the Tampa Bay Rays back in January He didn't pitch particularly well during spring training - giving up 14 earned runs in 9 2/3...
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Another Zippy Zapping!
On Monday of this week, I got home from work to discover I had received another large box of goodies from Kenny, better known in the collecting community as Zippy Zappy. Kenny has been downsizing his...
View ArticleTeam Sets And A Flagship
As I get older it seems that time moves faster and faster. I can't believe that it's been almost six weeks since the last time I did a round up of the latest NPB card release announcements. So lets'...
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Card Of The Week April 7
A while back I noticed something interesting about this card of Takamasa Sukuki from the 1978 Yamakatsu JY10 set:Do you see it? The batter is a member of the Nippon-Ham Fighters. Since NPB didn't...
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MLB Autographs
I frequently say that I don't collect MLB cards but that actually not completely true. I've put together a small collection of certified autographed MLB cards of Japanese players. Now, as I've also...
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Card Of The Week April 14
I got a handful of cards from my friend Jason early last week and one of the cards he threw in was kind of interesting. It's a 2023 Topps 206 card of Yuki Yanagita (#188) and it's somehow a three-way...
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Sports Card Magazine Cards
I did a post a few weeks back about a bunch of magazine issued cards that I'd gotten from Ryan. I mentioned in the post that I had nearly completed my goal of getting all the baseball related cards...
View ArticleTopps Now NPB Cards
Topps Japan is now offering Topps Now cards for NPB. They've got seven cards currently up on their website featuring events from the first couple weeks of the season. The cards are 1243 yen a piece...
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2024 BBM Rookie Edition
You know, I make fun of Calbee for issuing pretty much the same flagship set year after year. I should probably make fun of BBM more for doing essentially the same thing with the Rookie Edition set...
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2024 Calbee Series One
I got my 2024 Calbee Series One set in the mail last week in the same shipment that I got my 2024 BBM Rookie Edition set in. The set is the first of what I hope will be three Series this year but fear...
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More Topps Now News
I wanted to do a follow up post about the Topps Now NPB cards I wrote about the other day along with some other Topps Now related news:- I had asked mr friend Ryan to pick up one of the Topps Now NPB...
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Mail Day From Jason
I wanted to do a quick post about some cards I got in the mail today from my friend Jason. He'd put a couple interesting memorabilia and autograph cards up on Ebay that I picked up and as usual he...
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Card Of The Week April 21
There's been a lot of discussion on-line this past week about an error on the back of Hiromi Itoh's card in the new 2024 Calbee Series One set. Itoh's height is listed as 176 meters (577-ish feet)...
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Choi Jeong
Today Choi Jeong of the SSG Landers hit his 468th career home run, pushing him past the legendary Lee Seung-yuop to become the all time home run leader in the KBO. This is Choi's 20th season and he's...
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Wally Yonamine Of The San Francisco Seals
I was surprised a few months back to discover that there was a baseball card featuring Japanese Baseball Hall Of Famer Wally Yonamine as a member of the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League....
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Card Of The Week April 28
For the past eight years or so, an outfit called variously "Hits", "TIC" or "216 Co., Ltd." has issued sets of "mini colored paper" or "mini shikishi" - basically oversized (5 1/2 inches wide by 4 3/4...
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Madonna Japan Members In Australia
The 2024 Australian Women's Showcase will be played next week in Lismore, New South Wales and there are five members of Madonna Japan, the Japanese women's national team, who will be participating in...
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