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2015 BBM Tigers 80th Anniversary Set
BBM's latest team anniversary set is for the Hanshin Tigers. If this sounds familiar to you, it's because this is the third such set for the Tigers (not including the Tigers Legend set). The first...
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Card Of The Week May 31
Takeya Nakamura had a pretty good time against the Tigers this weekend out in Tokorozawa. In the third inning of yesterday's game, he hit a two run home run to put the Lions up 4-1. He followed that...
View ArticleTired Of Waiting For BBM...
Between Niki and the latest issue of SCM, I think I can figure out enough about BBM's upcoming releases for the next month or so to go ahead and do a post about them instead of waiting for BBM to put...
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1983 NST Album
A company called NST produced four sets of baseball cards between 1975 and 1983. Well, I say "baseball cards" but technically what they really were were stickers or stamps that were meant to be pasted...
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Lions Team Issued Sets
This is going to be a bit of a long post as I have a bunch of different Lions sets.1989 "Laminated"The first cards I have I believe were sold around 1989. These are laminated photo cards. Jay Shelton...
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2010 SCM Retro Rookies
When I was researching the cards distributed with Sports Card Magazine I found a lot of "original" cards that I thought were pretty cool (when I say "original", I mean cards that were not simply promo...
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Card Of The Week June 7
The big news last week was that Horishi Moriwaki stepped down as manager of the Orix Buffaloes. Orix has been one of the biggest disappointments this season, sitting in last place in the PL with a...
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More Memories Of Uniform - Hawks Edition
I've put off working on this project for a few months, using the excuse that I was waiting for a couple sets from Ryan. Now that I've gotten everything, it's time to dive back in...Quick history of...
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Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Team Issued Cards
The last installment (for now) on team issued cards is for the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes. Jason has a lot of information on these due to his Tuffy Rhodes collection so I don't have a whole lot to add...
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Shikoku Island League All Stars
There's a an all star team from the independent Shikoku Island League that is playing a set of games against the teams of the independent Can-Am League. The first game is tonight in Little Falls, NJ...
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Kazuhiro Wada
I wanted to do a quick post on Kazuhiro Wada getting his 2000th hit on Thursday. I think Wada's the first player to reach that milestone since Tadahito Iguchi almost two years ago.Wada was drafted as...
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Shikoku Island League All Stars vs New Jersey Jackals
I made the trip up to Little Falls, New Jersey last night to watch the Shikoku Island All Stars take on the New Jersey Jackals in the second game of their CanAm League tour. I was accompanied by...
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Card Of The Week June 14
Ikuhiro Kiyota of the Marines had a 23 game hitting streak stopped last Wednesday against the Dragons. One of my complaints about this year's 1st Version set was the number of significant guys left...
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Sung-Heon Hong
Sung-Heon Hong of the Doosan Bears became the fourth player in KBO history to reach the 2000 hit milestone today. I thought I'd do a quick post showing the cards I have for him (including his rookie...
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1970's Giants Magazine Cards
There were a number of magazines in the 1970's that included uncut sheets of baseball cards, mostly for the Giants. I picked up a few examples of these off of Ebay over the past year or so and thought...
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Card Of The Week June 21
Interleague play wrapped up last week and the Hawks were the champs. Yuki Yanagita was named the Interleague MVP after hitting .429 with five home runs and 10 RBI over the three week stretch of a...
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More Memories Of Uniform - Tigers Edition
The Tigers have been one of the more stable teams in Japanese baseball history. They were founded in 1935 as (I believe) the Osaka Tigers but changed their name during the war to Hanshin. After the...
View ArticleProxy Bidding With JAUCE
A couple of months back I got a recommendation from reader Ryan Laughton to on another Yahoo! Japan Auctions proxy bidding outfit called JAUCE (Japan AUction CEnter). I was browsing the auctions a few...
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2015 Eagles Team Issued Card - Memorial Uniform Subset
I mentioned the other day in my post about JAUCE that I had picked up the "uniforms" subset from the 2015 Eagles team issued set. I thought I'd take a few minutes to talk about this subset. The...
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Card Of The Week June 28
Ever see a guy hit a home run completely out of a domed stadium? That's what Ernesto Mejia of the Lions did during their 12-4 shellacking of the Fighters on Friday night. He hit a two run home run to...
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