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1992 Calbee Find
A previously unknown 1992 Calbee card was revealed to the public today. Card #214 was of a late signing American player with the Dragons:The discoverer of the card, Tommy Flanagan, stated that there...
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Odd Cecil Fielder Card
So this is kind of weird - I picked up this 1989 Calbee Cecil Fielder card off of Ebay a few weeks back and it arrived in the mail today. Here's the front and back of the card (#107):As you can see,...
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1974 Calbee Frank Howard cards
There's a great blog out there called Cards That Never Were that creates custom cards using old card designs. What I mean by that is that the guy behind it will create cards that he felt were missing...
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Card Of The Week April 6
Tuffy Rhodes is, of course, a well known player in Japan. Over the course of his 13 seasons with Kintetsu, Yomiuri and Orix, he hit 464 home runs, the 13th highest total. He was the league leader in...
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Another 1989 Calbee Error Card
So the other day I got some information from Scott Kaneko regarding that odd Cecil Fielder card from the 1989 Calbee set. Seems that according to the 1989 Calbee checklist included in Sports Card...
View ArticleCorrection
I got the most recent issue of Sports Card Magazine (more about that in the next few days) and I realized that I had said something wrong in my preview of this year's 1st Version set. I had said that...
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How To Buy Sports Card Magazine From The US
After getting some emails from Scott Kaneko earlier this week regarding information that had appeared in Sports Card Magazine about both the Frank Howard and Cecil Fielder Calbee cards, I decided that...
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Card Of The Week April 13
Last Wednesday Ichiro Suzuki played in his 3018th game between NPB and MLB. This passed Katsuya Nomura's record for most games played in between NPB and MLB by a Japanese player. Of course, Nomura's...
View ArticleNew Releases
Information about a number of new sets has been released lately:- BBM has announced four more team sets for this year - the Buffaloes, the Lions, the Fighters and the Baystars. The base set for each...
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2007 BBM 1st Version
2007 BBM 1st Version Set SummarySize: 502 cardsCards Per Team: 37 (team card, manager + 35 players)Team Card Theme: Game Action/CandidsNumber Of Leader Cards: 34Checklists: NoneSubsets: Future...
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Are You Serious?
A couple years back, Jason did a post about an auction of Japanese cards that he had won on Ebay (outbidding me by the way :-)). One of the cards in the lot was this 1988 Calbee card of Rick...
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Card Of The Week April 20
Here's a little video of Hiromitsu Kadota throwing out the first pitch at one of the Osaka Classic games between the Hawks and Buffaloes last year at Osaka Dome. Both teams wore 1980's uniforms - the...
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Frederich Cepeda
Some interesting news in the past week - the Giants have signed Cuban outfielder Frederich Cepeda to a one year contract. Cepeda is expected to join the team in mid May.A year or so ago, the Cuban...
View ArticleNew Historic Sets
A couple new historic sets were announced recently:- BBM is putting out what I suspect will be the first of at least two sets to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of professional baseball in Japan. I'm...
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Card Of The Week April 27
Andruw Jones had a pretty good game last Tuesday. The Eagles were losing 1-0 to the Lions in the bottom of the eighth when Jones came to the plate:Then in the bottom of the twelfth with the score tied...
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2008 BBM 1st Version Light Packs
Despite already having the complete 2008 BBM 1st Version set, I took advantage of an opportunity to pick up a couple Light Packs from the set cheap on Ebay last week. Since the only Light Packs I've...
View ArticleAnother One Bites The Dust
Looks like BBM has decided to retire another of their annual sets this year. Every April since 2008 BBM has issued a box set for the Tokyo Big Six collegiate league. The set's release has always...
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Card Of The Week May 4
Every so often I discover someone from MLB had played in Japan that I had not known about. Most recently it was Matty Alou, who spent three years with the Lions in the mid-70's. He has not shown up...
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Card Of The Week May 11
I picked up the 2009 BBM Masaichi Kaneda set recently. It's a cool little set that deserves a post of its own in the near future but I thought I'd show off one of my favorite cards from the set...
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2014 BBM Orix 25th Anniversary set
The Orix corporation purchased the Braves from Hankyu following the 1988 season. After two years as the Orix Braves playing in Hankyu's old stadium (Nishinomiya Stadium) in (greater) Osaka, Orix moved...
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