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Back History
I've been wanting to do a post on NPB card backs for years but I've never gotten around to it. I started working on one today but it's morphing into something else so I'm just going to go with the...
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Card Of The Week May 5
Do you know who the first Western player to hit 40 home runs in a season in Japan was? The answer is Dave Roberts, who did it with the Sankei Atoms in 1968. If your response to that is "who?", well,...
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Team Sets, A Food Set And The Return Of Topps
Once again, time has flown by since the last time I did a round up of the newly announced sets so without further ado, let's get to it...- BBM has announced four more of their annual "comprehensive"...
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Card Of The Week May 12
Last Monday Yoshitomu Tsutsugoh played his first NPB game since 2019 and it had a storybook ending. The Baystars were down 5-3 in the bottom of the eighth when he stepped to the plate with two runners...
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Card Of The Week May 19
This will be quick as I'm still in Japan. I'm writing these ahead of time but if everything went according to plan, I saw the Swallows play the Tigers at Koshien yesterday - and even did a pregame...
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Card Of The Week May 26
Today was my last day in Japan and I am currently flying home. It's been a great trip and I'll be doing a lot of posts about it over the next few months.I picked up a lot of cool cards but I need to...
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Home
This year's trip to Japan is over. I arrived home late last night - two and a half hours lster than expected due to weather delays in Chicago - and I'm spending a leisurely Memorial Day relaxing and...
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GPBL Cards
Since I feel like I have a big backlog of cards to deal with, I'm going to kick off my trip-related posts with some posts about the cards I brought back. This first post deals with some cards from the...
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More Epoch One Cards
Continuing my posts about the cards that I brought home from Japan...As usual I asked Ryan if he wouldn't mind ordering some of the Epoch One cards as they became available. If you're not aware, Epoch...
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Lions Mini-Shikishi Cards
I had mentioned a few weeks back that one of the things I was going to be on the lookout for in Japan were the "mini colored paper" or "mini shikishi" sets issued by a company known variously as...
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Card Of The Week June 2
I need to catch up a little on a couple of events that happened my last weekend in Japan. First off, on Friday night, May 24, Shosei Togo of the Giants threw a no-hitter against the Tigers at Koshien...
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Mail Day!
Been really busy the last couple of days but I have time for a quick post about a card I got in the mail yesterday - it's the latest NPB card from Gio of "When Topps Had Balls". It shows Katsuya...
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RIP Tomoo Wako
Former Orions, Tigers and Carp pitcher Tomoo Wako passed away earlier this week from liver cancer. He was 87 years old.Wako was born and raised in Sendai and attended Tohoku High School. He was...
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Yu Darvish
Yu Darvish got his 200th career win in NPB & MLB while I was in Japan and I wanted to do a quick post to commemorate the event. Darvish had 93 wins in his seven seasons in Japan and (obviously)...
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Trip Overview Part 1 - Days 0-1 - Tokyo & Tokorozawa
Back to talking about my Japan trip...I think I'm going to repeat the three-pronged approach I used to post about my 2019 trip and do posts giving an overview of the trip, talking about the cards I...
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2024 Bushiroad Dream Order Cards
Dream Order cards are the latest collectible card game for NPB. Produced by the company Bushiroad, the initial sets were published back in late April. There were basically fourteen sets issued at...
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Card Of The Week June 9
On Friday night, Daichi Ohsera of the Carp threw the second no-hitter of the 2024 NPB season, shutting down the Marines 4-0 in the first no-hitter pitched in the Carp's current ballpark. It was a kind...
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Food With A Side Of Cards
One of my big regrets from my 2019 trip to Japan was that I missed out on opportunities to get baseball cards with my food at the ballparks. I ultimately only got cards at two different stadiums on...
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Topps Now Samurai Japan Cards - 2024 Global Baseball Games
One of the items I received from Ryan when I met up with him in Tokyo was the latest set of Samurai Japan Topps Now cards. This iteration of the set was for the two game "Global Baseball Games" that...
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Rintaro Sasaki Goes To Frederick
I was sitting on the couch Monday night, browsing Twitter, when I came across a tweet that stopped me in my tracks:"Wow," I thought to myself, "I didn't realize he was going to play in that league. I...
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