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Card Of The Week October 29
The Hawks beat the Baystars 4-3 today to go up 2 game to none in the Nippon Series. The key play of the game was a play at the plate in the bottom of the seventh. With the bases loaded with one out...
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Korakuen Stadium
2011 Epoch 1987 #55Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo opened on September 11th, 1937 and over the next fifty years hosted some 7172 professional baseball games, the most for any ballpark in Japan. 30 years ago...
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Yu Darvish In The Nippon Series
As you probably already know, the World Series wrapped up last Wednesday with the Astros beating the Dodgers in Game Seven to win their first World Series Championship ever. Had the Dodgers won, Yu...
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Card Of The Week November 5
The 2017 Nippon Series ended yesterday with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks winning Game Six in an exciting, come-from-behind victory. The Hawks were trailing 3-2 with one out in the bottom of the ninth -...
View ArticleRecently Announced Sets
Here's a quick round up of some recently announced sets:- I have good news and bad news about Calbee. The good news is that Calbee is releasing a Samurai Japan set that is very similar to the one they...
View ArticleAnd One More
BBM released information today (one day AFTER I'd done a post about new releases) about their first set for 2018 - "Time Travel 1989". This is a retro themed set that's dedicated to 1989, the first...
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Masahiko Morino
Man, it's already mid-November and I haven't started on posts for the players who retired at the end of the season. I need to get going on this or I'll still be doing them next spring...Masahiko...
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Tadahito Iguchi
Tadahito Iguchi of the Chiba Lotte Marines had announced his retirement back in June. Iguchi had been the first pick of the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks in the fall 1996 draft out of Aoyamagakuin University....
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Card Of The Week November 12
The Chiba Lotte Marines spent this weekend in Taiwan, playing a three game series against the (or "a") Chinese Taipei National team that included Yomiuri Giants outfielder Daikan Yoh. The Marines...
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Tetsuya Matsumoto
Giants outfielder Tetsuya Matsumoto retired at the end of the season. Matsumoto was taken by the Giants in the third round of the fall 2006 ikusei draft out of Senshu University. He was moved to the...
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Kentaro Takasaki
Kentaro Takasaki, a pitcher with the Yokohama DeNA Baystars, also announced his retirement at the end of the season. Takasaki signed with the Baystars in the "preferred entry frame" of the fall 2007...
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Asian Players in the 2017/18 Australian Baseball League
The 2017/18 Australian Baseball League kicked off today with the defending champion Brisbane Bandits defeating the Canberra Cavalry 8-5. As has been the case in previous seasons, there are a number of...
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2017 Topps Now WBC Japan Team Set
With the year almost over it's pretty obvious now that Topps is not going to do anything more in the way of a World Baseball Classic set than what they issued back in March via Topps Now. They...
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Card Of The Week November 19
Out of town over the weekend so I'm a couple days late on this...The first Asia Professional Baseball Championship tournament wrapped up on Sunday with Japan defeating Korea 7-0. Shuta Tonosaki from...
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2017 Award Winners
The MVP and Rookie of the Year awards were announced earlier this week. The MVPs were Dennis Sarfate of the Hawks and Yoshihiro Maru of the Carp.2017 BBM 1st Version #0392017 BBM 1st Version #181The...
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Daisuke Fujimura
Giants infielder Daisuke Fujimura is another player who retired at the end of the season. Fujimura was the Giants' first pick in the 2007 high school draft out of Kumamoto Industrial High School. He...
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2017 BBM 1st Version Secret Versions
BBM had a new gimmick with their sets this year - secret versions of cards. What's a secret version of a card? It's a short printed alternate version. This is similar I guess to something that Topps...
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Ryoji Aikawa
Another 2017 retiree is catcher Ryoji Aikawa of the Giants. Aikawa was originally drafted out of Tokyo Gakakan High School in the fifth round of the fall 1994 draft by the Yokohama Baystars. He spent...
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Card Of The Week November 26
I was looking at the box score from the Melbourne Aces' 6-0 shutout over the Adelaide Bite in the Australian Baseball League on Friday when I realized that the starting pitcher for the Aces was Korean...
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Yuya Andoh
Longtime Hanshin Tigers pitcher Yuya Andoh announced his retirement back in the middle of September. Andoh attended Hosei University of the Tokyo Big Six League and then joined Toyota's industrial...
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