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2014 3D Calbee Cards
I question sometimes if I should be tagging posts about cards that I got from Ryan when I was in Japan with the "2024 Trip" tag since these are cards he would have mailed me if I hadn't met up with him...
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Card Of The Week June 16
I'm not much for celebrating milestones on the blog (which seems to be what I say everytime I do celebrate one) but I had noticed the other day that I was approaching my 3000th post and thought I...
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Trip Overview Part 2 - Day 2 - A Day At Jingu
After all the running around I did on my full day in Japan (not to mention the evening I arrived), I was glad that the agenda for my second day was pretty much centered around a single location - Meiji...
View ArticleSecond Flagships, Team Sets And A KBO Set
It's been about six weeks since the last roundup I did for upcoming releases - long enough that one of these isn't "upcoming" any more but was released last week.  - The second part of BBM's annual...
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Son Ah-seop
For the second time this season the KBO has a new career leader in a major offensive category.  Choi Jeong set the new record for most home runs back in April and today (well, last night in Korea) Son...
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2024 BBM Icons - Generations
BBM has put out a little box set called "Icons" every March since 2013. Basically it's an excuse for them to put out the first cards of the top draft picks that show them on a baseball diamond (as...
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Team Issued Cards
One of the things I've been on the lookout for as much as I can on my trips to Japan are team issued cards. These aren't necessarily the cards that get issued with meals (although one set I'm going to...
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Card Of The Week June 23
Interleague play wrapped up last week and the Eagles were Interleague Champions. The Interleague MVP was not an Eagle, however, as Shun Mizutani of the Fighters took the award after batting a record...
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2021 BBM 2nd Version Show Man Insert Set
In 2019, BBM issued a "Franchise Builder" insert set with the 2nd Version set that kinda-sorta showed off all twelve primary NPB ballparks. There were 12 cards (one for each team of course) and each...
View Article2024 Epoch NPB Retail Vs Hobby Boxes
One of the things I've enjoyed about collecting NPB baseball cards is the lack of cards that are exclusive to some retail outfit or another. It seems like in any given year, Topps' MLB sets have cards...
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2023 Epoch Hawks Premier Edition
I was browsing the selection of cards at Mint Umeda in Osaka when I came across a bunch of hand collated complete sets for 500 yen apiece. Several of them were recent BBM team sets that I already had...
View ArticleSome Updates And Genesis
I wanted to do a quick post about a new set announcement and some updates about previously announced sets.- The new set announcement was for Genesis, BBM's annual high end set. As usual the base set...
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Trip Overview Part 3 - Days 3 & 4 - Tokyo And Sendai
The forecast for Monday, May 13th in Tokyo was not good. It called for heavy rains and there was actually a flood watch in effect. Luckily my plans for the day didn't involve going to any baseball...
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Card Of The Week June 30
Masato Morishita had a pretty good night at the ballpark last Tuesday. He threw a "Maddux" against the Swallows - a complete game shutout on under 100 pitches - as well as getting a "modasho" - three...
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2024 BBM 1st Version Set
 2024 BBM 1st Version Set SummarySize: 372 cards numbered 1-336, CE01-CE36Cards Per Team:  28 (team card, manager + 26 players)Team Card Theme:  Spring TrainingNumber Of Leader Cards:  N/AChecklists:...
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Miscellaneous Card Pickups
I wanted to do a somewhat quick post about a bunch of random cards that I picked up on the trip. Most of these were cards on my want list (which is much smaller now than before I left).There were nine...
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Magazine Cards
I want to do yet another quick post about some cards I picked up on the trip. This time it's cards that were distributed with magazines and it really will be a quick one.One of my goals right now is...
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2024 Topps NPB Set
I wasn't going to buy it this year.The 2024 Topps NPB set was released around May 24th, right around the end of my trip to Japan. I figured that no store would have had time to put together a complete...
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2023 Calbee Hawks
It was a bit of a surprise last January when Calbee somewhat abruptly released a 36 card set for the Hawks with little advance fanfare. The cards had a similar design to the 2023 Calbee cards and were...
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Card Of The Week July 7
I have a lot of Sadaharu Oh cards.This isn't a complaint, it's just a statement. According to my database, I have in the neighborhood of 200 cards of Oh. That includes probably something like 100 or...
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