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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Sendai
Please check my "Card Shops in Japan" page before planning a trip to this store to verify that it's still where it was when I visited.My last stop on the day I spent in Sendai was at the Mint Sendai...
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RIP Loek Van Mil
Stunning news out of the Netherlands yesterday - former Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles pitcher Loek Van Mil has passed away at the age of 34. Van Mil played professional baseball in four different...
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Trip Overview Part 7 - Day 9 - Fukuoka
With the previous day being quite a long day, I pampered myself a little on the morning of Sunday, June 2nd by sleeping in a little bit. I had tickets for the Hawks game that afternoon at 1300 but I...
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Miscellaneous Card Pickups
I wanted to do a quick "catch-all" post about a bunch of miscellaneous cards I picked up during the trip.Kanebo did two kind of "puffy, 3-D-ish" cards in 1993-94. They were similar to the "Action...
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Mandarake
Mandarake is chain of antique stores in Japan. They have 11 stores stretching from Fukuoka in the West to Sapporo in the North. Sean had recommended that I check out the store in Nagoya (pictured...
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Card Of The Week August 4
I was thumbing through a bunch of team issued cards of the Baystars at Mint Yokohama (or possibly Mint Akihabara) when I came across this "card" (sticker really) of Sho Aranami:I don't know a whole lot...
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Card Shops In Japan: Coletre
Please check my "Card Shops in Japan" page before planning a trip to this store to verify that it's still where it was when I visited.The first store that Ryan and I went to when we met up in Tokyo was...
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Trip Overview Part 8 - Day 10 - Nagoya & Ichinomiya
After six days away it was time to head back to Tokyo so on the morning of Monday, June 3rd I caught an east bound Shinkansen. I wasn't making the entire return trip in one shot as I was going to...
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Eagles Team Issued Cards
I had mentioned in my post about Mint Sendai last week that I had bought a handful of Eagles team issued cards there. I thought I'd do a quick post on the cards I got here.Of course I'm only doing a...
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Marines Team Issued Cards
I picked up some team issued cards from the Marines on this trip. Most of these I got at the Mint Chiba store but one of them I got from Ryan. Here's what I got:I think this card is from late 2006 as...
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Dragons Team Issued Cards
I mentioned a while back that one of my card collecting goals on this trip was to get more team issued cards. I especially was looking to find cards from the three teams that I didn't have any team...
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Baystars Team Issued Cards
The final team that I picked up team issued cards for was the Baystars. Ryan had given me one card and I picked up the rest at Mint Akihabara and Mint Yokohama. I got cards from three different sets...
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Card Of The Week August 11
I picked up this 2000 BBM card of Hideki Matsui while I was in Japan (not sure which store but I think it was Mint Ponyland). This is one of the cards that was included with Sports Card Magazine #24...
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NPB Down Under Part 2
I did a post a few months back featuring a bunch of cards of NPB players in Australian Baseball League uniforms. In that post I had mentioned a handful of other cards of NPB players* that I knew about...
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"2015" Vittum Foreign Attack Set
Dan Skrezyna has just published his latest "Foreign Attack" set under the "Vittum" label. These sets feature all the foreign players in the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) for a particular season -...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Ikebukuro
Please check my "Card Shops in Japan" page before planning a trip to this store to verify that it's still where it was when I visited.After Ryan and I visited Coletre we next headed to Mint Ikebukuro...
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Bum-Ho Lee
I'm going to start trying to catch up on posts I postponed doing as I was doing posts on the cards I got on my trip to Japan (even though I still have a lot of other posts to do about the trip). One...
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Two Giants Team Issued Sets
Dan Skrezyna is a big fan os Lee Seung-yeop, the former slugger for the Samsung Lions in Korea and the Marines, Giants and Buffaloes in Japan. Dan has accumulated a substantial PC for Lee and I was an...
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Card Of The Week August 18
Yoshitomo Tsutsugoh of the Yokohama DeNA Baystars hit his 200th (and 201st) career home run in yesterday's game against the Carp. Here's a card from last year's Calbee Series Three set celebrating him...
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Trip Overview Part 9 - Days 11-12 - Shizuoka, Tokyo and Tokorozawa
Tuesday morning June 4th saw me catching an east-bound Shinkansen in Nagoya. I was returning to Tokyo after a week of running around Western Japan. I had a quick stop to make on the way however.On...
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