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Card Of The Week September 15
About a week and a half ago, I saw someone selling a Bobby Valentine autographed card from the 2011 BBM Marines 20th Anniversary set for only $10. I jumped on it and received the card in the mail this...
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Card Of The Week September 22
BBM celebrated Hideki Matsui's departure for MLB after the 2002 season by publishing a 55 card boxed set called "The Legend Of Hideki Matsui". There's a card in the set (#31) showing Matsui in action...
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Late Mail Day
I've been recovering today from a busy week or so - I was in New Mexico for work from last Sunday until very late Thursday night (or really very early Friday morning) and then spent the weekend at a...
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Trip Overview Part 9 - Day 12 - Tokyo
After the lengthy saga of my two days in Fukuoka, this post will be mercifully short.I only had two things on my agenda for Wednesday, May 22nd - traveling back to Tokyo and going to a Yomiuri Giants...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Odawara (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.One of the shops that I was eager to revisit on this latest trip to...
View ArticleNovember Rain
I was a little surprised to discover that it's been over two months since my last roundup of recently announced sets. To be fair, there hadn't really been much in the way of new set annoucements until...
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Card Of The Week September 29
Masahiro Tanaka finally made his ichi-gun debut yesterday against Orix. He went five innings, giving up six hits, two walks and four runs while striking out one. He took the loss in the Buffaloes'5-1...
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Trip Overview Part 10 - Day 13 - Odawara, Shizuoka & Tokyo
My plans for Thursday, May 23rd, involved getting back on the Shinkansen, but, like the week before when I went to Sendai, I'd be back in Tokyo that evening.My day started, however, with an unpleasant...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Yokohama (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 last Mint store that I visited on this trip was the Mint...
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Card Of The Week October 6
MLB's post-season started this past week and four teams - the Orioles, Brewers, Braves and Astros - have already been eliminated. I thought I'd do a quick post about the members of the remaining eight...
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BBM Jersey Cards
2017 BBM GenesisI'd been asked a couple times over the years about BBM's "authentic" jersey cards. The usual question is about whether the swatch on the card was "game worn" or just "player worn" with...
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One Year Managers
Eagles manager Toshiaki Imae has been let go as manager of the Eagles despite having another year left on his two year contract. By my count, Imae is now the twelfth "one year manager" in NPB over the...
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Card Of The Week October 13
It was starting to look dire for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters today. Despite being the higher seed in the First Stage of the Pacific League Climax Series, they were on the brink of elimination....
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"Our Giants Will Live Forever"
Today (yesterday in Japan now) is the 50th Anniversary of Shigeo Nagashima's retirement games. The then-38 year old Giants legend had announced his retirement a few days earlier when the Giants were...
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Bonus Players in 2024 BBM Genesis
I did a post earlier this year about "bonus players in BBM's high end sets" - i.e. players who appeared in BBM's "high end" sets (Diamond Heroes, Touch The Game & Genesis) who didn't appear in...
View ArticleWhat's Up With Topps?
I've been operating under the assumption that Topps would be issuing both an NPB Chrome set and an NPB Bowman set this year. They've done the Chrome set each of the three previous years that they've...
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Mail Days
I've gotten a couple packages of cards in the mail over the last week or so and I thought I'd do a quick post about what I've received.First up was a surprise package from Kenny - aka Zippy Zappy. I...
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Card Of The Week October 20
The Final Stage of the Central League Climax Series is getting interesting. The Baystars had won the first three games, putting the Giants on the brink of elimination. However, the Giants won Game...
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I've Got A Secret
Last week while I was working on a post about several packages I had recently received, I started having a conversation with Jason, the source of one of those packages. He'd gotten some more 2024...
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2024 NPB Draft
The 2024 NPB draft was held today and there's at least eight players who were drafted who already have baseball cards. As always, I'm relying on Deanna's post about the draft while supplementing it...
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