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Sports Card Magazine #113
Issue 113 of Sports Card Magazine was published last Saturday in Japan and my copy arrived at my house on Tuesday. As always, there's not a lot that's in English in it but there's some interesting...
View ArticleSCM's Non-BBM Baseball Card Listings
I feel like I've been behind in the posts that I've wanted to do. And with the NPB season wrapping up and about a billion guys announcing their retirement, it's just going to get worse. With this...
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Card Of The Week October 4
Shogo Akiyama of the Lions came into last Wednesday's game against Orix with 209 hits for the season, one behind Ichiro Suzuki for the record for most hits in a season in the Pacific League and five...
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Motonobu Tanishige
Chunichi Dragons player/manager Motonobu Tanishige has retired as a player although he will continue to manage the team. I've done a couple image heavy posts for him in the past - one when he reached...
View ArticleLast Of The 2015 Sets?
A couple more sets appeared on BBM's website this week:- The annual Rookie Edition Premium set will be released at the end of October. This is a 38 card box set featuring 36 cards in the base set (3...
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Satoshi Nakajima
Long time Fighters catcher/coach Satoshi Nakajima has retired - the Fighters did his retirement ceremony on October 1. Nakajima was drafted out of high school at age 17 in the third round of the fall...
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Kenta Asakura
Another player who retired as of the end of the 2015 season is Kenta Asakura of the Dragons. Asakura was taken by the Dragons out of high school in the first round of the fall 1999 draft. His best...
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2015 Calbee Series Three
Calbee's Third and final Series for the year was released a few weeks back and I must confess that I was a little disappointed in it. The first reason I was disappointed in it was that it was smaller...
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Card Of The Week October 11
This season Terry Collins has managed the Mets into the postseason for the first time since 2006. Collins was a bit less successful in his previous managerial position - he managed the Orix Buffaloes...
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Takashi Saitoh
Eagles reliever Takashi Saitoh got out in front of the retirement bandwagon this season, holding a press conference back on August 17th to make his announcement. His final appearance was on October 4...
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Michihiro Ogasawara
Michihiro Ogasawara of the Dragons announced his retirement on September 17. He played his last game on the 21st and the team held a retirement ceremony for him after the game. He was one of the...
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RIP Koki Morita
Very sad news yesterday - former Baystar and Buffalo pitcher Koki Morita has passed away from a brain tumor at age 45. Morita was the first round pick of the Yokohama Taiyo Whales in the 1987 draft...
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Fumiya Nishiguchi
Long time Lions pitcher Fumiya Nishiguchi announced his retirement towards the end of the season. The Lions drafted him in the third round of the 1994 draft out of Rissho University. He was the first...
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Card Of The Week October 18
The Swallows eliminated the Giants yesterday and after the game, Giants manager Tatsunori Hara resigned. Hara had managed the Giants since 2002 (with the exception of the 2004-05 when the team was run...
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2016 NPB Draft
This year's NPB draft was held on Thursday - I guess that officially it is called the 2015 draft but it will be identified as the 2016 draft on the back of BBM's baseball cards so I'm calling it that....
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Card Of The Week October 25
Much has been made both this season and last about this being the 40th Anniversary of the Carp's first Central League pennant in 1975. What kind of gets lost is that they didn't win the Nippon Series...
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Western Managers In NPB
With Alex Ramirez being named manager of the Yokohama DeNA Baystars last week, NPB has its first Western manager since 2010. I thought I'd quickly do a run down of the seven Westerners who previously...
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Yoshitomo Tani
Back to the retirees...Yoshitomo Tani is yet another player who announced his retirement this season. Tani was drafted by the then Orix Blue Wave in the second round of the fall 1996 draft. He...
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Kazuhiro Wada
Another player who retired at the end of the season was Kazuhiro Wada of the Dragons. I did a post for Wada last June when he got his 2000th hit so I'll just show a few more cards now:1999 BBM Lions...
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Satoshi Nagai
Eagles pitcher Satoshi Nagai retired at the end of the season. Nagai was taken in the first round of the 2006 draft by the Eagles out of Toyo University*. He had a couple good years for the Eagles in...
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