More Team Sets, 2nd Version and the return of Topps
I know it was less than two weeks since the last time I did a round up of new release announcements but they've been coming fast and furious. Let's get caught up, shall we?- Topps is back for their...
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Card Of The Week May 18
Last Tuesday night in Inchon, Choi Jeong of the SSG Landers became the first KBO player to hit 500 home runs. Choi had become the all time KBO home run leader last year when he passed Lee Seung-yuop's...
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Some 2025 Cards
I have been the recipient of a couple random acts of kindness this week. I don't know what I've done to deserve the generosity of a couple of my internet friends, especially since I've never met...
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Hideki Irabu's Hanshin Tigers Cards
In December of 2002, the Hanshin Tigers made an announcement. After spending the previous six seasons in MLB, Hideki Irabu would be returning to Japan and NPB for the 2003 season.Tigers manager...
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Card Of The Week May 25
Teruaki Sato of the Tigers is leading the Central League in home runs right now and it's not a close race at the moment. Sato has 12 home runs and the two players tied for second - Sato's teammate...
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Hideto Asamura
Hideto Asamura of the Eagles got his 2000th hit last Saturday and became the latest member of the Meikyukai or "Golden Players Club". Asamura is the first member of this august group who was born in...
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The 2000 BBM O-N Set Saga Continues
Some time ago, I had picked up what I thought was a complete 2000 BBM O-N set off of Ebay but instead I got something that was a bit of a mystery. The 2000 BBM O-N set was a high end box set dedicated...
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Card Of The Week June 1
Two of hot rookies this year in the Pacific League are Rui Muneyama of the Eagles and Seiya Watanabe of the Lions. Muneyama has gotten more hype than Watanabe - five teams took him in the first round...
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RIP Shigeo Nagashima
2002 BBM All Time Heroes #005I have to be honest here - I'd been kind of hoping that I'd never write this post. I know I was fighting against actuarial probabilities, especially given that he'd had a...
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Card Of The Week June 8
Koji Chikamoto of the Hanshin Tigers got his 1000th career hit yesterday. I was thinking to myself that that was pretty impressive as Chikamoto hadn't been in the league wrong but then I realized that...
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Two Way Ohtani Cards
I was having a conversation via Reddit with a collector who was on a trip in Japan recently. He was telling me about his experiences at some of the Mint stores. One of the things he mentioned was...
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Card Of The Week June 15
There was kind of an interesting story that came out a couple weeks ago - former MLB player Eric Anthony, who was raised by a single mother and never knew his father, discovered that his father was...
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Cards From Korean Cardboard
Dan Skrezyna - aka Korean Cardboard - is selling his card collection. He contacted me a few weeks ago about some cards on my KBO want list and we made a deal for nine cards. He shipped them off and...
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Kenny Strikes Again
I returned home from running some errands this morning to discover that Kenny (aka Zippy Zappy) had made good on his recent threat promise to send me some more 2025 baseball cards. I opened the...
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Card Of The Week June 22
Thursday night in Tokyo, Koki Kitayama of the Fighters came close to making history. Pitching against the Giants in the ballpark that Nippon-Ham once shared with Yomiuri, Kitayama took a perfect game...
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Zapped Again!
I was away from home this past week on a business trip to Alabama. I managed to do a couple fun things on the trip, like visiting Rickwood Field and having dinner with Jason. I got home late last...
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Card Of The Week June 29
Interleague play wrapped up this past week with a makeup game on Tuesday between the Giants and the Marines. The Hawks were the interleague champions for the ninth time (although the first time since...
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More Cards From Korean Cardboard
I mentioned in the post I had done about some cards I had bought from Dan Skrezyna - aka Korean Cardboard - that Dan had located some more KBO cards from my want list and I'd bought those as well. The...
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Twice In A Week
I got Zippy Zapped yet again! I received another envelope in the mail yesterday from Kenny in Japan. This one contained only one baseball card, a DreamOrder card of Akiyoshi Katsuno of the Dragons....
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Summer has arrived and I realized that I'd gone about a month and a half since I last did a roundup of new set announcements. Time to fix that so here goes...- Epoch has announced three more of their...
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