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Card Of The Week June 2
I'm in Fukuoka today, watching the Hawks take on the Eagles in the Fukuoka Dome (yeah, I know it has a corporate name - I'm not using it until I get a check). Here's a card of the Dome (#FD85) from...
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Card Of The Week June 9
Today is my last full day in Japan as I'm catching a flight home late tomorrow afternoon. I spent today at the Fighters' farm team facility in Kamagaya watching Nippon-Ham and DeNA's ni-gun squads...
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Ready To Come Home
I have spent 16 full days in Japan on this trip.I attended 16 baseball games in 13 different ballparks. 10 NPB games, 3 NPB ni-gun games, 2 Tokyo Big 6 collegiate games and a Japan Women's Baseball...
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Shikoku Island League All Stars 3
For the third time in five years an all star team from the Shikoku Island League is going to be playing in the CanAm League. Starting tomorrow night and continuing for the next three weeks this team...
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Card Of The Week June 16
Daisuke Shioya had a kind of interesting career. He was a pitcher in high school but became an outfielder when he went to Asia University. He dropped out of college and signed with the Johnstown...
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Trip Overview Part 1 - Days 0-1
I apologize for not writing much in the week and a half since I got back. I've been busy with work and other things (been to two more baseball games since I've been home) and I've been struggling to...
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Epoch One Cards
Along with the trip overview posts I also wanted to post (brag) about the cards I picked up while I was in Japan. I'll start with the Epoch One cards I got.Epoch One is Japan's version of Topps Now....
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Card Of The Week June 23
I wanted to share an oddball card I picked up on the trip. I got this 1998 card of Yoshinobu Takahashi at Mint Ponyland in Nagoya:Here's what the back looks like:I knew I had seen either this or a...
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Carter Stewart
It was big news last month when Carter Stewart, the Atlanta Braves top draft pick from last year, signed a six year deal with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. Stewart was the eighth overall pick in the...
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Trip Overview Part 2 - Day 2 - Sendai
I had what may sound like an odd choice as my first destination for Sunday, May 26th in Sendai - I was heading off to Yagiyama Zoo. The zoo is located west of the central part of the city in a hilly...
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Calbees
I wasn't really looking for Calbee cards too much on the trip - I was more concentrating on finishing some BBM sets and getting more obscure issues at the card shops I was visiting - but I did end up...
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It's been about five weeks since I did a round up of newly announced sets and there's a bunch that have been announced since then:- BBM released information on their last three "comprehensive" team...
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Baseball Women
I thought I'd do a real quick post showing off some cards I got of professional women baseball players who were featured in BBM's "Venus" sets for female athletes ("Real Venus" from 2009 to 2015 and...
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Card Of The Week June 30
Inter-league play wrapped up last week and once again the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks were the "champions". This is their eighth title in the 15 years that there's been inter-league play in NPB. Nobuhiro...
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Trip Overview Part 3 - Days 3-5 - Tokyo, Odawara & Nagoya
I began my day on Monday, May 27th by catching the Shinkansen back to Tokyo from Sendai. When I got there in late morning I went to my hotel to drop off my luggage and met up with Ryan. We exchanged...
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Mint Grab Bag
Mint stores sell "Grab Bags" containing random selections of 20 cards for 200 yen. I saw ones for NPB, MLB and NBA and I would expect that they have them for other sports and leagues. I decided to...
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Shikoku Independents vs New Jersey Jackals
As I mentioned in a post a few weeks back, for the third time in five years the Shikoku Island League has sent an all star team to play in the Can-Am League for a couple weeks in games that actually...
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2018 Konami Baseball Collection
Late last season Konami announced a new collectible card game called "Baseball Collection". The cards are used in an arcade game - the game rewards players with more cards but I don't know how you get...
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Card Of The Week July 7
On my last night in Tokyo I stopped by G-Freak, an odd little store near Okachimachi Station. The store has a lot of cards but they're not really organized well. They pretty much have random cards in...
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Nippon-Ham Home Run Sausage Cards
For the past four years Nippon-Ham, the owners of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, has teamed up with BBM to produce "Home Run Sausage" cards. Nippon-Ham had originally done cards for the entire NPB...
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