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2024 Calbee Team Home Run Kings
For the last ten years or so, every Calbee flagship release (Series One, Two or Three as opposed to the Samurai Japan and other sets) has been accompanied by a small (usually 12 card) set of cards that...
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Trip Overview Part 4 - Days 5 & 6 - Nagoya
I had a relatively early start to my day on Wednesday, May 15th. I was leaving from Tokyo Station on the Hikari 635 Shinkansen at 8:33 that morning, the first leg on a week long trip to western Japan,...
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Card Of The Week July 14
Shohei Ohtani hit his 200th MLB home run yesterday afternoon and I thought I'd take that as an opportunity to share another Ohtani card. Since I don't collect MLB cards, I haven't gotten any new cards...
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Calbees From The Trip
I wanted to a post about the Calbee baseball cards I brought home from the trip. Now, I've already talked about the 2023 Hawks set, the 2024 Series One Team Home Run King set and the 2014 3-D cards...
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2024 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes Japanese Collegiate All Stars
After a delay of about a month from when it was originally scheduled to be released, Panini finally released the 2024 USA Baseball Stars & Stripes set a few weeks ago. As a collector of Japanese...
View ArticleCard Shops From The Trip Overview
Now that I'm done with the posts about the cards I brought home from Japan in May, I'm going to start writing about the card shops I went to. I went to twenty one stores in all, although that total...
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1976 Calbee Multi-Player Cards
I had mentioned the other day in my post about the Calbee cards I had brought home from my trip that I had completed my subset of the "multi-player cards" from the 1975/76/77 "monster" Calbee set....
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Shinjuku (UPDATED)
Please check my "Card Shops in Japan" page before planning a trip to this store to verify that it's still where it was when I visited.The first card shop I went to on my trip was Mint Shinjuku, which...
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Card Of The Week July 21
It was the 65th Anniversary of The Emperor's Game a few weeks back. If you're not familiar with this event, I'll give a quick synopsis - it was the first professional baseball game that the Showa...
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Trip Overview Part 5 - Day 7 - Osaka
Friday, May 17th, found me on the road again. Or, more accurately, on the Shinkansen again. I caught the Hirari 631 heading west from Nagoya at about 8:15 that morning. It was a beautiful day and...
View ArticleLate Summer & Early Fall Releases
I felt like I just did a round up of the latest set announcements but it's been almost a month since the last one. So let's get caught up everything, shall we?- Epoch will be releasing their annual...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Tachikawa
Please check my "Card Shops in Japan" page before planning a trip to this store to verify that it's still where it was when I visited.Mint Tachikawa is located - appropriately enough - in Tachikawa, a...
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Card Of The Week July 28
The NPB All Star games were held last week. Tuesday's games was at the Fighters' new ballpark in Hokkaido and Wednesday's game was at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo and both games featured a lot more scoring...
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New Tomoyuki Sugano Card From Panini
Panini released their 2024 "Donruss" set a few weeks back and, like several of their sets last year, it includes a card of Tomoyuki Sugano of the Yomiuri Giants. I saw someone selling it on Ebay last...
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Trip Overview Part 6 - Day 8 - Koshien
My main agenda for Saturday, May 18th, involved one place - Koshien Stadium, the home of the Hanshin Tigers. Koshien is the oldest ballpark still in use in Japan, having opened on August 1st, 1924,...
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Japanese Players In The KBO
There was some big news out of the KBO a few months back - the SSG Landers signed Keisho Shirakawa, a Japanese pitcher. This was the first time a KBO team had signed a Japanese player in 13 years....
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Mail Day From Jason
I wanted to do a quick post about the latest cards I got in the mail the other day from my friend Jason, who sells Japanese cards on Ebay as "JK's Card Shoppe".First up is the complete "1st Bowman"...
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Card Of The Week August 4
The 2024 Women's Baseball World Cup wrapped up yesterday and, for the seventh straight time, Madonna Japan was the champion. Their road was a bit harder than in past years as they barely squeaked by...
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RIP Junro Anan
Former Carp and Buffalo infielder and one time Carp manager Junro Anan passed away last week at age 86. Anan joined the Carp after graduating from high school in 1956. He was Junichi Anan then as he...
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Trip Overiew Part 7 - Day 9 - Hiroshima
Sunday morning, May 19th, was another early start for me. I had reservations for a Shinkansen train from Osaka to Hiroshima at 8:44 which would get me into Hiroshima at around 10:30 but that had not...
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