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Matt Murton & Colby Lewis
Two former MLB players announced their retirements in the past few weeks and since both spent time in NPB I thought I'd do a quick post on them.Matt Murton was originally drafted in the 1st round of...
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Card Of The Week February 11
After six seasons in the majors, Norichika Aoki is returning to NPB and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. He played for seven teams in his six seasons - two years with the Brewers, one each with the Royals,...
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A Saturday Afternoon In Scottsdale
Last Saturday my wife and I escaped the frigid Mid-Atlantic for an extended weekend in Arizona. Our first stop straight from the airport was to Salt River Fields At Talking Stick in Scottsdale, the...
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RIP Teruyuki Takakura
Former Lion, Giant and Atom outfielder Teruyuki Takakura passed away earlier this week at age 83. Takakura signed with the then-Nishitetsu Lions in 1953 after graduating from Kumamoto Shogyo High...
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2013 Panini USA Baseball Japan Collegiate National Team
In 2013 Panini issued a box set for the USA National Teams (which included the collegiate, 18U and 15U teams). Each set contained a handful of autograph and memorabilia cards. The autograph and...
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Card Of The Week February 18
There was a news story about a month ago about a researcher in southern Florida discovering several previously unknown varieties of wasp. He decided to name one of them "Diolcogaster ichiroi" for...
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1973 Calbee Large Premiums
Over the years Calbee has issued a variety of items that were available when collectors redeemed "Lucky Cards" that were randomly placed in packs. In Calbee's very first year (1973) collectors could...
View Article2018 First Flagship Sets And More
A bunch of new sets have been announced recently including the first flagship sets from BBM and Calbee.- BBM's annual 1st Version set will be released in early April. As always this is a pack based...
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More Cards From Alex
I got another package of vintage cards from Alex a few weeks back. Alex - who lives in the UK - had offered to send me a bunch of old cards in exchange for me acting as a proxy for him to order cards...
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Card Of The Week February 25
Shohei Ohtani made his spring training debut with the Angels yesterday. It wasn't a great outing - he gave up two runs on two hits and one walk while striking out two in 1 1/3 innings pitched - 31...
View ArticleEpoch To BBM - It's On
That loud thud you heard from Japan today was Epoch throwing the gauntlet down at BBM. Epoch has announced that they are doing their first "flagship" set ever (unless you want to count their 2000...
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2018 BBM Rookie Edition
Rookie Edition, BBM's annual draft pick set, was released a few weeks back. It contains 126 cards, 114 of which are the players who were taken in last October's NPB draft. As always, the photos of...
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2016 BBM Rookie Edition Premium
BBM has issued a "Rookie Edition Premium" box set in the fall of every year since 2007. It features 36 players (3 per team) that are the rookies (well really draft picks from the previous year) who...
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Card Of The Week March 4
Southern Thunder, the Australian National Baseball Team, took on Samurai Japan, the Japanese National Baseball Team, in two games this week. Japan won 2-0 yesterday in Nagoya and won again 6-0 today...
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BBM Pennant Winning Team Sets From The 1990's
In 1995 the Orix Blue Wave won the Pacific League Pennant for the first time since the franchise had been purchased from Hankyu after the 1988 season and relocated to Kobe in 1991. It was the first...
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More Cards From Dan
Got a package from Dan last week - he tracked down a bunch of KBO cards that I was looking for. We didn't trade this time - I just paid him for the cards. He was going to use what I paid him to pay...
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Card Of The Week March 11
After 9 seasons in the majors pitcher Koji Uehara is heading back to NPB. He's returning to the Yomiuri Giants, the team he left following the 2008 season and the team that had drafted him out of the...
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Some New Old Stuff - 1976 Yamakatsu JY1a cards
I don't usually do posts on what I've just gotten on Ebay but I thought the stuff I received today was just too cool not to. I love the big (almost 7 inch by 10 inch) cards that Yamakatsu published in...
View ArticlePrestige Collectibles Auction #53
Just a quick FYI - Prestige Collectibles' latest auction (#53) went live today and will be accepting bids until the 29th. There's a lot of very cool vintage stuff available - it's not cheap but if...
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BBM Holograms
Ryan did a post a few months back talking about the 1991 BBM team logo holograms and I thought it might be good to do a post on the holograms that BBM did in their first four years doing cards - 1991...
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