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2018 BBM Carp Three-Peat Box Set
For the third year in a row the Hiroshima Toyo Carp are Central League Champions and for the third year in a row BBM has issued a box set celebrating the victory. After the somewhat unwieldy name...
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RIP Masao Morishita
Former Nankai Hawk infielder Masao Morishita passed away this past week at age 85. Morishita joined the Hawks in 1952 at age 18 after dropping out of high school and playing for Nankai's corporate...
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Card Of The Week October 28
Game One of the 2018 Nippon Series between the Carp and the Hawks was yesterday in Hiroshima and it ended in a tie after 12 innings. (Between Game 3 of the World Series which went 18 innings and Game...
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RIP Tomehiro Kaneda
Former Flyers, Orions and Carp pitcher Tomehiro Kaneda passed away earlier this month at age 71. Kaneda was the youngest of the four baseball playing Kaneda brothers. The oldest and most famous...
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2008 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version Set - Where Are They Now?
I've gotten my collegiate sets a little out of order, mostly because I got them in a kind of random way 10 years ago and also because it's been 10 years(!). BBM's second collegiate set was the 2008...
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Card Of The Week November 4
The 2018 Nippon Series ended yesterday with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks defeating the Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2-0 in Game Six, clinching the Hawks' second consecutive title and fourth in five years. As I've...
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There's been a couple recently announced sets:- Epoch is putting out ultra high-end team sets called "Season Achievements" for the Baystars and Lions. The Lions set was actually released yesterday....
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Jin-Young Lee
I've been late getting to the retiring players this year so I thought I'd start off with a fairly easy one - easy only in that I don't have many cards of the player. Jin-Young Lee announced his...
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2018 Epoch JWBL set
Epoch released a set for the Japan Women's Baseball League (JWBL) about a month ago. This is the second set Epoch has released for the league - the first was two years ago. The set has a base set of...
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Card Of The Week November 11
I really try not to feature the same players over and over as Card Of The Week but sometimes the circumstances seem unavoidable. I highlighted Yuki Yanagita being named MVP of the Pacific League...
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Hitoki Iwase
Long time Chunichi Dragons relief pitcher Hitoki Iwase formally announced his retirement back at the beginning of October. Iwase was a second round pick of his home-prefecture Dragons out of NTT Tokai...
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Asian Players In The 2018/19 Australian Baseball League And Other Winter Leagues
The 2018/19 season for the Australian Baseball League kicks off in less than six hours and I wanted to do a quick round up of some of the Asian players in the league this season, especially of course...
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Kazuo Matsui
Kazuo Matsui recently announced he was retiring after a 25 year career split between NPB and MLB. Matsui was originally a third round pick of the Lions out of PL Gakuen High School in the 1993 draft....
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Shuichi Murata
Another player who retired at the end of the 2018 season was Shuichi Murata. Murata was taken by the Yokohama Baystars in the "free acquisition" portion of the 2002 draft out of Nihon University where...
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Card Of The Week November 18
The 2018 Korean Series wrapped last Monday with a game for the ages. Going into the game the SK Wyverns were leading the Series three games to two but Doosan took a late 4-3 lead in the game and was...
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Tetsuya Yamaguchi
Giants pitcher Tetsuya Yamaguchi retired at the end of the 2018 season. Yamaguchi had an interesting route to NPB stardom - he had an opportunity to go to Kokushikan University after graduating high...
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Eiichi Koyano
Another player who retired at the end of the season was former Fighters and Buffaloes infielder Eiichi Koyano. Koyano was a fifth round pick of the Fighters out of Soka University in the fall 2002...
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2018 SCC KBO Collection set
Got a package in the mail from Dan Skrezyna last week containing the latest KBO card sets from Daewoo Media. The first set I'm going to talk about is the 2018 SCC set that I think is officially called...
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Card Of The Week November 25
The Hiroshima Toyo Carp established a baseball Academy in the Dominican Republic and have had a steady stream of players from it feeding the team. One of the earliest products of it was Robinson Checo...
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2018 SCC KBO Collection 2 - The Red And The Black
In addition to the 2018 SCC KBO Collection set, Dan Skrezyna also included the two 2018 KBO Collection 2 sets (Black and Red) in the package he sent me recently. Each of these sets features players...
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