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Broder Takahashis
A while back I did a post on the six NPB sets that Ed Broder did in the mid 1970's. Jason had asked a question in a comment about a couple players who were not completely identified in Engel's...
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Card Of The Week March 18
There was a trade last week in NPB - this is notable only because trades in NPB are somewhat rare. The Hanshin Tigers sent pitcher Daiki Enokida to the Saitama Seibu Lions for pitcher Yosuke Okamoto....
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Card Of The Week March 25
Been a busy week - was traveling for work again and just had a lot going on - so I'm just going to show a random card this week. The January 1957 issue of Yakyu Shonen magazine (published in December...
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Blog Bat Around - My Projects
Night Owl Cards started a Blog Bat Around a couple weeks ago that asked bloggers to write about their various card collecting projects. I'm a bit late on this but I thought I jump in on it.My main...
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Sports Market Report
I was interviewed a few months back by Sports Market Report (SMR) magazine writer Kevin Glew. The issue with his articles came out this week. There really wasn't a lot of his interview with me in the...
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Card Of The Week April 1
The NPB season kicked off the other day. The first (and so far only) player this season to have a multi-homer game was Seiya Inoue of the Marines who did it yesterday by hitting two home runs against...
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Play Ball! (2018)
OK, Opening Day was two days ago but I've been inspired by something Night Owl Cards has been doing for the past ten years but I just saw for the first time the other day. He's been doing a post each...
View ArticleMy Other Blog
I decided to start another blog dedicated to the 1988 Orioles. The 1988 Orioles were truly a historically bad team but 1988 was a very special year for me and the Orioles, bad as they were, were part...
View ArticleTeam Sets Galore!
There are a bunch of upcoming team sets that have been announced in the past few weeks:- BBM has announced their annual pack-based team sets for the Baystars, Fighters, Carp and Giants. I've started...
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Epoch One
I used to make April Fools' jokes here on the blog. Most of them weren't particularly clever and I ran out of ideas after a couple years. But I still think try to think of ones and I this year I...
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Card Of The Week April 8
I wasn't going to feature Shohei Ohtani this week.I really wasn't. I knew he had a good week. His first MLB start as pitcher last Sunday went pretty well - he went six innings against Oakland and...
View ArticleSports Market Report Follow Up
I wanted to do a quick follow up to my post a few weeks back about the issue of Sports Market Report devoted to Japanese Baseball Cards. Most (if not all) of the articles from the magazine are now...
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Card Of The Week April 15
I've got three hours before Shohei Ohtani's start against the Royals today makes me change my mind about what I'm posting about...The Marines and Hawks were tied 5-5 going into the ninth inning in...
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Study Abroad - The Dragons And The Dodgers
The Chunichi Dragons made some big changes during the offseason between the 1986 and 1987 seasons. The Dragons had won the Central League pennant in 1982 but had finished fifth three times in the...
View Article2018 Epoch "Rookies And Stars" Team Sets
I wanted to do a quick post about the "Rookies And Stars" team sets that Epoch is publishing this year. I don't know for sure if they are planning these sets for all 12 teams but they have already...
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New Releases
I wanted to do a quick round up of some newly announced and newly released sets.- BBM doesn't have anything about it on their website yet but they will be releasing their annual pack-based Lions team...
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Card Of The Week April 22
Kotaro Kiyomiya, the Fighters 1st round pick in last fall's draft has been having a slow start to his professional career. He came into last Friday's ni-gun Fighters game batting just .111 in his...
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RIP Sachio Kinugasa
Hall Of Famer Sachio Kinugasa has passed away from colon cancer at age 71. Kinugasa played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp for 23 seasons between 1965 and 1987. He is best known for breaking Lou Gehrig's...
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2018 Calbee Series One
Calbee's first set for the year, Series One, was released about a month ago. Well I say their first set but it's really just the first part of their set this year. Assuming no typhoon-induced potato...
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2018 BBM Hawks 80th Anniversary
The Hawks are celebrating their 80th Anniversary this year. The team was founded in Osaka in 1938 as Nankai and took on the Hawks moniker in 1947 (with the team known as Kinki Nippon and Kinki Great...
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