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Hawks Team Issued Sets
Here are some cards from some Hawks sets I've picked up recently. Jason has the list of all the cards I have (and their numbers if applicable) at his mongo Japanese team issued cards post.2002...
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Card Of The Week April 19
Masahiro Tanaka pitched an outstanding game for the Yankees yesterday, throwing 7 shutout innings against the Rays while only giving up two hits and striking out eight. He also didn't walk anyone. As...
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2015 Orix Players Card Set
I got another lot of team issued cards from Ebay in the mail today. This batch is from the brand new 2015 Orix Players Card set - or at least that's what I'm calling the set anyway.Here's the front...
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Once again I've held off on posting about new sets coming out while waiting for BBM to get information about them up on their site and once again I've waited so long that some of the sets I'm waiting...
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2013 BBM Masahiro Tanaka Invincibility Legend set
2013 was a pretty amazing year in NPB. In the Central League you had Wladimir Balentien chasing (and eventually passing) Sadaharu Oh's record for most home runs in a season (which was actually shared...
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Card Of The Week April 26
Kenny Ray of the Eagles did something no one else has ever done before this past week - he became the first pitcher in his 40's to win his first four starts of the season. The previous record of three...
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Ryan Laughton left a comment on a post a few weeks ago that kind of sent me down a rabbit hole that I'm just now coming out of. Ryan said that he had stopped buying American cards in the mid 1990's...
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Giants Team Issued Sets
Just another quick overview of team issued sets, this time for the Yomiuri Giants. Jason listed a number of Giants sets but there isn't much overlap between what he has listed and what I have other...
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Card Of The Week May 3
Last week Dragons player/manager Motonobu Tanishige became just the second player in NPB history to appear in 3000 games. Tanishige joins another former player/manager, Katsuya Nomura, as the only...
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Card Of The Week May 10
I just finished reading Rob Fitts' new book Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer this past week. Once again Rob has written an excellent book...
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Weekly Baseball
Baseball Magazine Sha, the publisher of BBM baseball cards, is primarily a magazine publisher (as you might expect from their name). I believe that the company was founded in 1946 or 47 (there's a...
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More 2014 Front Runner Sets
Christmas came early at my house this year - yesterday I received both a box full of goodies from Ryan and a box with my latest Yahoo! Japan Auction wins from kuboTEN. So I'll try to start blogging a...
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Card Of The Week May 17
One of the box sets that Ryan found for me cheap in Japan recently was a little team set for the Orix Buffaloes that BBM put out in early 2012. Called "Pedigree", it has three subsets that each show...
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Recent Epoch Sets
Continuing with the box sets I got from Ryan last week...Epoch has issued two new OB box sets in the last six months, neither of which were done in conjunction with the Japan Baseball Promotion...
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Some 2014 BBM Box Sets
BBM put out three team based box sets last summer that included both active and OB players for the featured team. Ryan tracked these down for me and included them with the stuff he sent me last week...
View ArticleJust Released and Upcoming New Stuff
Well, once again I've put off doing a new releases post while waiting for BBM to add information about their upcoming sets onto their website and once again, I've ended up delaying so long that one of...
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Card Of The Week May 24
Last week Ichiro Suzuki of the Miami Marlins got his 2,874th hit of him MLB career, passing Babe Ruth for 38th place for batters since 1900 (and 42nd for all time). Ichiro now has 4,154 between NPB...
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Achievers
The last of the recent box sets I got from Ryan a week or so ago were the Achievement sets for the Hawks, Buffaloes and Whales. The Achievement sets a new series of box sets from BBM that have a retro...
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2015 BBM 1st Version Set
2015 BBM 1st Version Set SummarySize: 372 cards numbered 1-324, CP01-CP36Cards Per Team: 28 (team card, manager + 26 players)Team Card Theme: MascotsNumber Of Leader Cards: N/AChecklists:...
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Sports Card Magazine #111
Sports Card Magazine #111 was published yesterday in Japan and somehow a copy made its way to my door by early afternoon today. Like most issues, this one is a bit of a hit or miss on its usefulness...
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