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2017 BBM Time Travel 1975
BBM didn't do a "Historic Collection" set this year, replacing it with the Fusion set. For those looking for their OB player fix (beyond the 55 OB players in the Fusion set that is) BBM issued a set...
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1970's Yamakatsu Albums
I did a post a few months back on the Calbee card albums of the 1970's and 80's (and I just did an update to the post with some images I swiped off of Ebay). But Calbee wasn't the only card company...
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Card Of The Week January 15
When Prince Fielder retired last summer due to a herniated disk in his neck, I immediately thought of former Hanshin Tigers outfielder Norihiro Akahoshi. Akahoshi had been forced to retire in 2009...
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Mitsutaka Gotoh
Mitsutaka Gotoh of the Tohoku Rakutea Golden Eagles announced his retirement last month. Gotoh had been released by the Eagles at the end of the season and attended the 12 team tryouts in early...
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2017 Hall Of Fame class
The results for this year's Hall Of Fame ballot were released today and there were five new inductees. Longtime Lions catcher (and one time Lions and current Marines manager) Tsutomu Itoh was elected...
View ArticleFighters in Arizona, 2017 Edition
As I mentioned a few weeks back, your 2017 Nippon Series Champion Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters are returning to Peoria, Arizona for spring training this February. More details have come out in the...
View ArticleNew Releases For The New Year
There was a couple weeks where I was starting to wonder what was going on - there didn't seem to have been any announcements being made about any 2017 releases. Then about a week or so, BBM made an...
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Card Of The Week January 22
I've been trying to follow the Australian Baseball League this winter and I've been listening to the Strike Zone Australia podcast lately. It's a weekly podcast with player and coach interviews and a...
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Jae-Gyun Hwang Of The San Francisco Giants
Jae-Gyun Hwang of the Lotte Giants of the KBO has signed a minor league deal with the San Francisco Giants. Hwang was originally a third round pick in the 2006 KBO draft by the Hyundai Unicorns who...
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'99 Korea-Japan Super Games
I had been aware for while that there was an insert set in the 2000 Teleca KBO baseball card set for something called the "'99 Korea-Japan Super Games" but it wasn't until recently that I learned more...
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Card Of The Week January 29
Former Orix Buffaloes, Fukuoka Softbank Hawk and Seattle Mariners player Dae-Ho Lee is returning to Korea and his original team, the Lotte Giants. Lee has spent the past five seasons away from the KBO...
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Sports Card Magazine #121
Sports Card Magazine #121 was published last Friday. Here's my summary:Color Section:- Three page interview with Seigi Tanaka, top draft pick of the Hawks- Two page spread showing "cheki" photograph...
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More Memories Of Uniforms - Kintetsu Edition
The team that was ultimately known as the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes began life in 1950 as the Kintetsu Pearls and were one of several teams that joined the new Pacific League when the old Japan Baseball...
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Card Of The Week February 5
Hiromitsu Ochiai's tenure as Dragons GM ended on Tuesday as the three year contract he signed after the 2013 season expired. Ochiai had been the most successful manager in Dragons history between 2004...
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More Memories Of Uniform - Japan National Team Edition
This will be a bit different from all the other uniform posts. There have been a variety of "Japan National Teams" over the years made up of professionals or amateurs (and in some cases both). The...
View ArticleDisappointed!
The Can-Am League's schedule is official now and Shikoku Island League All Stars will NOT be touring the league again this summer. Instead the Yeoncheon Miracle, an independent team from Korea, will...
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Card Of The Week February 12
I came across this oversized (3 12 inches by 5 1/2 inches) bromide card of Tetsuharu Kawakami a little while back when I was doing research for my post on the Giants uniforms. As far as I can tell the...
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Card Of The Week February 19
75 years ago today President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which lead to the relocation and internment of around 120,000 people of Japanese descent who were mostly living on the US west coast...
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Samurai Japan World Baseball Classic Roster
I'm a bit late on this but ten days ago the final roster for Samurai Japan's World Baseball Classic team was announced. After seeing George'spost showing off the Korean team and a post on Not Another...
View Article2017 Flagship Set Announcements
Information on the first of the 2017 "flagship" sets from BBM and Calbee were released in the last week or so.- Calbee's Series One will be released in late March (the official release date is March 27...
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