Card Of The Week September 9
One of the things I am constantly on the lookout for is cards that show "collisions" (for lack of a better word) between NPB and MLB, especially from when NPB teams have come the US to do spring...
View ArticleCard Of The Week September 16
I was at an Orioles-Red Sox afternoon game a couple months ago and as I was coming into the ballpark from the Light Rail station at Camden Yards I noticed a someone wearing a familiar looking uniform...
View ArticleCard Of The Week September 23
One thing I've learned from reading various baseball autobiographies is that most pitchers hate to run. So I was amused when I saw this card of Joichiro Maki of the Tigers in this year's BBM 1st...
View ArticleThe Fall Lineup
I'm back from vacation so it's time to get caught up on sets that were announced while I was gone...- BBM announced that their annual Rookie Edition Premium set will be released in late October. This...
View ArticleCard Of The Week September 30
I was in London a couple of weeks ago and while browsing shops in Camden Market I came across a used clothing store that had a bunch of foreign (to the UK) sports jerseys. The majority of them were...
View ArticleKazuya Fukuura
I'm late in getting to this but back on September 22nd Kazuya Fukuura of the Marines became the latest member of the 2000 hit club. Fukuura has spent his entire career with Lotte - he was their...
View ArticleCalbee Team Books
About a year ago I was browsing Amazon's Japanese website and I came across an interesting little book. It was a small paperback book that looked like it had something to do with Calbee cards...
View ArticleCard Of The Week October 7
Orix manager Junichi Fukura stepped down a few weeks back and it was announced this week that head coach Norifumi Nishimura would be taking over as manager. Nishimura's only other managerial...
View Article2008 BBM Collegiate National Team Set - Where Are They Now?
Ten years ago this month BBM released their second collegiate set. This set featured the Japanese collegiate team that played in the World University Baseball Championship held in Brno in the Czech...
View ArticleMore New Stuff
I wanted to quickly mention a couple of sets that got announced in the last week or so...- For the third year in a row the Hiroshima Toyo Carp have won the Central League pennant (remember that the...
View Article2013 Bandai Owners League 02 Box Break
For the third year in a row I've used the Amazon gift cards I got for my birthday to pick an unopened box of Bandai's Owners League cards. This year I picked up a box of the "02" set from 2013 - my...
View Article2018 BBM Genesis set
It's odd how you change the things you're interested in collecting over the years. For example a couple years back I would never have thought about getting all of BBM's team sets each year but after...
View Article2018 Calbee Series Three
Calbee's Series Three set got released a few weeks back. This is basically the third part of Calbee's flagship set for the year - the first two parts were Series One which came out March and Series...
View ArticleCard Of The Week October 14
I'm leaving on a week long business trip to Texas this afternoon so I knew I needed to take care of "Card Of The Week" early. I had kicked around a couple topics - new manager for the Dragons, old...
View ArticlePrestige Collectibles Auction #54
Been meaning to get to this - Prestige Collectibles latest auction (#54) started a couple weeks back and will be running until October 27th. As usual there's a lot of interesting stuff available....
View ArticleRIP Seizo Furukawa
I haven't seen anything in English about this but Jim Allen tweeted yesterday that former Chunichi and Hankyu player Seizo Furukawa had passed away at age 96. Furukawa joined the Nagoya club as a 19...
View ArticleRIP Joe Stanka
1964 Nippon Series MVP Joe Stanka has passed away at age 87. Stanka was originally signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 and spent three years in their organization before being drafted by the Cubs....
View ArticleEpoch NPB Photos From Arizona
Justin (Charm City Autographs) has a YouTube channel and recently posted a video showing him opening several packs of 2018 Epoch NPB cards. One of the cards he pulled was the above card of Kazunari...
View ArticleCard Of The Week October 21
The Hawks beat Seibu 6-5 today, which concluded their defeat of the first place Lions in the Final Stage of the Pacific League Climax Series. The Hawks will now move on to face the Hiroshima Toyo Carp...
View ArticleSamurai Japan U23 Team
The U-23 Baseball World Cup has been going on for about a week down in Colombia. Japan went 5-0 in the Opening Round to win their Group (Group A) and beat Korea this morning in the first game of the...
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