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Card Of The Week August 6
Hitoki Iwase of the Dragons got into his 950th game today which now gives him the record for most pitching appearances in NPB history, passing Hall Of Famer Tetsuya Yoneda. He got the save in the game...
View ArticleCalbee Series Two Has Been Reins-tater-ed! (and other new stuff)
If you recall, a month ago I reported that Calbee's Series Two this year had been delayed by the fact that the potato crop in Hokkaido had failed this spring due to typhoons that hit the island last...
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Study Abroad - The Buffaloes Of Salt Lake City
The 1980's were the Golden Age of NPB teams sending players to the US to play in the minor leagues. It started with the Seibu Lions sending players to San Jose in the California League in 1983 and by...
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Card Of The Week August 13
The 99th Japanese High School Baseball Championship (aka the Summer Koshien Tournament) kicked off this past week at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya. Koshien Stadium is the oldest professional baseball...
View ArticleKBO Foreigner Set Plus Some Other New Items
- There have been no new KBO sets this year and the KBO sets that have been released over the past few years have not contained cards of foreign players. Dan Skrezyna of Korean Cardboard is doing...
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Shinnosuke Abe
I'm late at getting to this but last Sunday Shinnosuke Abe of the Yomiuri Giants got his 2000th career hit. Abe was the Giants' first round pick in the fall 2000 draft out of Chuo University and has...
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Card Of The Week August 20
Osaka Toin is one of the power houses of Japanese high school baseball. They've won the Summer Koshien tournament three times in the past ten years and they've also won the Spring (Invitational)...
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2017 BBM 2nd Version Set
2017 BBM 2nd Version Set SummarySize: 313 cards (cards numbered 337-600, then 13 cards of "Ceremonial First Pitch" subset are separately numbered FP01-FP13 and 36 cards for "Cross Squall" subset are...
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Card Of The Week August 27
The 99th Japanese High School Baseball Championship (aka Summer Koshien) wrapped up last Wednesday with Hanasaki Tokuharu defeating Koryo 14-4 in the title game. (Koko Yakyu has a great writeup of the...
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September 3, 1977 - Sadaharu Oh Hits Home Run #756
40 years ago today Sadaharu Oh hit his 756th home run to pass Hank Aaron as the "World Home Run" rccord holder. It's kind of funny - Aaron hit his last home run on July 20, 1976 so he only held the...
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Card Of The Week September 3
Here's a trivia question for you - who was the pitcher who gave up Sadaharu Oh's 756th home run? It was Yasujiro Suzuki of the Yakult Swallows. Suzuki had a couple good years as a starter with the...
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Card Of The Week September 10
On Friday Takashi Toritani got his 2000th career hit, becoming the fourth player to do so this year (following Masahiro Araki, Norichika Aoki and Shinnosuke Abe). I'll hopefully get around to doing a...
View ArticleNew BBM And Epoch Sets Announced
BBM and Epoch have announced a handful of new sets in the past few weeks:- The last few years BBM has issued a box set for one of the team's cheerleader/dance team. It was the Hawks in 2014, the...
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2017 World Baseball Classic Roundup
Topps still has a couple of products that are expected to be published this year but I have a hunch that they're done with whatever World Baseball Classic cards they are going to have. And what they...
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Trade With Dan
I made trades with two other collectors back in August and naturally I got both of their trade packages in the mail the day before I went in for surgery so I've been understandably slow at getting...
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Trade With Ralph
As I mentioned yesterday I made a trade with Ralph Pearce in August. I sent him 60 or 70 of KBO cards and he sent me around 25 vintage Japanese cards. Once again I think I got the better part of the...
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Card Of The Week September 17
From time to time over the years Calbee offers cards that are only available as part of some sort of mail in redemption process. A couple of times the cards available have been oversized cards. The...
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Dennis Sarfate
Hawks closer Dennis Sarfate broke the NPB single season record for saves a couple weeks back when he notched his 46th save this season, breaking the record of 45 held jointly by Hitoki Iwase and Kyuji...
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RIP Dave Hilton
Former Yakult Swallow and Hanshin Tiger infielder Dave Hilton passed away this past weekend at the age of 67. Hilton had played for the Padres as well as in the Blue Jays organization before joining...
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Takashi Toritani
Back on September 8th Takashi Toritani of the Tigers became the fourth Japanese player to reach 2000 hits this season. Toritani was the Tigers fourth round draft pick out of Waseda University back in...
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