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2009 BBM Tokyo Big Six Spring Version Set - Where Are They Now?
BBM's fourth collegiate set was released in April of 2009. The Tokyo Big Six Spring Version set was a box set containing 60 total cards - 54 player cards (nine from each team) and six team cards....
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Card Of The Week April 14
Last Tuesday night Ernesto Mejia hit a solo home run for the Lions in the ninth inning of their game against the Eagles. The home run itself was unremarkable - it made the score a little closer but...
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Card Of The Week April 21
Having let Craig Kimbrel leave as a free agent, the defending World Champion Red Sox have turned to for Carp pitcher Ryan Braiser to be their closer this year. Brasier was originally drafted by the...
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2019 Calbee Series One
The first of what is expected to be three Series from Calbee was released a few weeks back. There's no big surprises in Series One - the base set contains 98 cards which break down into 72 player...
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I wanted to do a quick post about some recently announced "comprehensive" team sets from Epoch and BBM as well as a couple team issued sets that were released earlier this month.- Epoch has announced...
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Card Of The Week April 28
With this being my final "Card Of The Week" post for the Heisei Era I thought it would be appropriate to honor the player who both John E. Gibson and Jim Allen picked as the Heisei Era NPB MVP on last...
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2019 BBM 1st Version set
2019 BBM 1st Version Set SummarySize: 372 cards numbered 1-336, CS01-CS36Cards Per Team: 28 (team card, manager + 26 players)Team Card Theme: Spring TrainingNumber Of Leader Cards: N/AChecklists:...
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1st Version Photos From Arizona, 2019 Edition
The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters have done the early part of their training camp in Arizona the past four seasons. As a result there have been a number of cards in BBM's 1st Version set the past four...
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2018 Hanwha Eagles Calendar Cards
I got a package from Korea in the mail the other day courtesy of Dan that contained an 12 card set produced by the Hanwha Eagles in 2018. Dan said that the set was sold with a calendar which is why he...
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NPB Down Under
The Shlabotnik Report started an interesting Blog Bat Around the other day - how many countries do you have baseball cards from? I'm not really going to participate in it as my collection doesn't have...
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Card Of The Week May 5
The Reiwa Era began last Wednesday and the first player to hit a home run in the new era was Hayato Sakamoto of the Giants, who hit a solo shot off Daisuke Yamai of the Dragons in the second inning of...
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Shohei Ohtani SCM Cards
With Shohei Ohtani returning to the Angels' lineup last night I thought I'd do a quick post listing the cards that he had that were included in Sports Card Magazine between 2013 and 2017 (when the...
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2019 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes "Rack Set" Japanese Collegiate All...
I did a post last month about the autograph/memorabilia cards for the 2018 Japanese Collegiate All Star team that Panini had included in their USA Baseball Stars & Stripes set. A couple weeks...
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Missing In Action - Hideo Nomo
When it comes to guys who've been left out of Japanese card sets, there's no one who's been left out more than Hideo Nomo.After playing a couple seasons for Nippon Steel of the industrial leagues after...
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Card Of The Week May 12
Last Friday night in Kyoto was the final evening of the Japan Women's Baseball League's "Victoria Series Spring League", which is basically a nine game tournament between the three primary teams of the...
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Despaigne Despair
I'm not the sharpest guy in the world but sometimes even I notice a trend...2014 SCM #280/BBM 2nd Version #7052015 BBM 1st Version #0982015 BBM 2nd Version Cross Plasma #CP602015 BBM 2nd Version...
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Card Of The Week May 19
I was looking over the NPB statistical leaders for the season so far over at NPB Reddit and I noticed that Seiya Suzuki of the Carp was the Central League leader in all three of the traditional Triple...
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Bud Ackerman & Mel Bailey - Importers Of Japanese Baseball Cards
If you read any edition of Gary Engel’s “Japanese Baseball Card Checklist & Price Guide” you’ll see a couple references to Bud Ackerman and Mel Bailey who are credited with importing several sets...
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I wanted to do a quick post on a couple recently announced sets...- Calbee's Series Two set will be released on or around July 1st (it seems like it's usually available a few days before the official...
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Card Of The Week May 26
Posting is going to be light over the next couple weeks as I am visiting Japan! I attended my first ever NPB game today in Sendai between the Eagles and the Buffaloes. I thought I'd share a card...
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