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2017 Calbee Series Two
Calbee's Series Two set this year was released about two weeks ago - about 2 and a half months after it would normally have been released due to the lack of a suitable potato crop for making chips....
View ArticleA Pari Of New Items
A quick note on two new items of interest:- BBM is releasing a box set to celebrate the Carp clinching the Central League pennant. It's called something along the lines of "Successful Achievement" and...
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Card Of The Week September 24
Tadahito Iguchi of the Marines retired today. I'll be doing a post on his career soon but I wanted to do a quick post to highlight something my friend Hiro pointed out on Facebook & Twitter - that...
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Another Package From Ryan
I got a package from Ryan in the mail today with all sorts of goodies - all the BBM and Epoch team sets for this year along with some other sets and singles. I'll be doing a bunch of posts based on...
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2017 Kochi Fighting Dogs Team Set
I have a soft spot for the Shikoku Island League - they were the first independent minor league in Japan and they sent All Star teams to play in the Cam-Am league in 2015 and 2016. That soft spot...
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Card Of The Week October 1
The Baystars clinched a playoff spot for the second year in a row today by defeating the Carp 13-7. Baystars pitcher Joe Wieland got the win despite giving up seven runs (six earned) in five innings...
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2017 BBM Icons - Japan Pride
BBM has been issuing a box set called "Icons" annually in March for the past several years. Each year the theme of the set changes. This year's theme was "Japan Pride" - not coincidentally the...
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2017 Epoch Pacific League Set
Epoch put out a number of reasonably priced card sets this past summer. I'll be posting about their individual team sets soon but I want to start off with their Pacific League set.As you might expect...
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"2016" Vittum Foreign Attack Set
Yesterday I got my copy of Dan Skrezyna's self published set of foreign players from the KBO. The set is called "Foreign Attack" and Dan's calling his card company "Vittum". The set was printed up in...
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2017 Epoch Team Sets
Getting back to the stuff Ryan sent me last week...Epoch released reasonably priced team sets for eight of the twelve NPB teams this past summer (basically between mid-June and the end of August)....
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Card Of The Week October 8
Shohei Ohtani made what is very probably his last pitching appearance in Japan on Wednesday, throwing a complete game shutout with 10 strikeouts in the Fighters' 3-0 win over Orix (he also hit cleanup...
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2017 Epoch Tigers "Master" set
Ryan somehow picked me up a "master" set for the 2017 Epoch Tigers set. Well, I guess it's really not a "master" set as it doesn't include any signature parallels or inserts but it does include all of...
View ArticleNew BBM and Epoch releases
Just wanted to take a minute to cover some recent announcements of new sets by both BBM and Epoch...- BBM's annual Rookie Edition Premium box set will be released in late October (Jambalaya says it'll...
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2017 BBM Genesis set
For the first time ever, I picked up this year's edition of BBM's high end set Genesis. I bought a base set which was relatively cheap (1500 yen on Yahoo! Japan Auctions before my Noppin fees) but...
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2013 Bandai Owners League 04 Box break
Like I did about a year ago, I recently picked up an unopened box of one of Bandai's Owners League sets from Amazon.com (the US one, not Amazon.co.jp). Jay Shelton had tipped me off a while back that...
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Card Of The Week October 15
The NPB playoffs (aka the Climax Series) kicked off yesterday with the second place Tigers hosting the third place Baystars in the Central League and the second place Lions hosting the third place...
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2017 BBM Carp "Successful Achievement" box set
For the second year in a row the Hiroshima Toyo Carp are Central League champs* and for the second year in a row BBM has issued a box set commemorating this. Last year the set had 55 cards and had the...
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Card Of The Week October 22
The Hawks beat the Eagles 7-0 today to win the Final Stage of the Pacific League Climax Series and qualify for the Nippon Series. The Hawks won three straight games after dropping the first two...
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2017 BBM Team Sets
It's taken me most of the month but I'm finally wrapping up the last of the sets that Ryan sent me at the end of September. For the third year in a row Ryan tracked down all 12 of BBM's pack based...
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2018 NPB Draft
It was draft day for NPB today. Officially it's the 2017 draft but since I started mislabelling the draft some years back based on what's on the back of BBM's baseball cards I'm going to call it the...
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