About To Be Released Sets
A quick roundup of some sets that have an imminent release:- I mentioned a little while ago that BBM was issuing a box set for the Carp called "Brilliant". It turns out that they are also issuing box...
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2019 SCC KBO Set
Daewoo Media issued their first set under their SCC moniker for the Korean Baseball Organization this year back in June. Dan Skrezyna picked up a set for me a while back but I hadn't had a chance to...
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Card Of The Week August 25
There was an article in the Asahi Shimbun yesterday (H/T NPB Reddit) about how former Yokohama Baystars pitcher Atori Ohta is now a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Ohta was a third...
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Koji Uehara
Koji Uehara of the Yomiuri Giants announced his retirement a couple months ago - four days before I left for Japan - but I'm just now getting around to doing a post for him. Uehara was the Giants'...
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Jason Coskrey of The Japan Times interviewed me a few weeks back for an article about my card collection and the blog. The article just went live on their website this evening and it also appears in...
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Card Shops In Japan: Quad Sports
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.Quad Sports is probably my favorite card shop in Japan. I've...
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Trip Overview Part 10 - Day 13 - Tokyo, Urawa and Chiba
Having had a long day the previous day I was a little slow getting moving on Thursday, June 6. But I still was out of my hotel by about 9:30, heading to more card shops.I was staying at a Toyoko Inn...
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Card Of The Week September 1
I was at a couple Aberdeen Ironbirds games this past week when they were taking on the Brooklyn Cyclones. Brooklyn is managed by former Mets star second baseman Edgardo Alfonzo. Alfonzo played...
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2019 BBM 2nd Version set
2019 BBM 2nd Version Set SummarySize: 321 cards (cards numbered 337-600, the 21 cards of "Ceremonial First Pitch" subset are separately numbered FP01-FP21 and 36 cards for "Cross Sunrise" subset are...
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2019 BBM Baystars 70th Anniversary Set
The franchise that is now the Yokohama DeNA Baystars is celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year - technically 2019 is the team's 70th season. The team came into existence as the Taiyo Whales in...
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Package From Down Under
I got a package in the mail from Steve Smith yesterday containing a handful of cards from Japan by way of Australia. Steve lives near Melbourne and is a big fan of the Aces - I think he spent some...
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Carter Stewart's First Japanese Cards
I got a package in the mail from Ryan yesterday that contained a number of things he's found for me in the past three months. Among those things are a bunch of Epoch One cards and this year's edition...
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Trip Overview Part 11 - Day 14 - Tokyo & Yokohama
My biggest fear about my Japan trip was the one factor that I had no control over - the weather. I had been quite fortunate for the first two weeks of the trip but my luck appeared to be running out...
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Card Of The Week September 8
On Friday Kodai Senga of the Hawks threw a no-hitter against the Marines. This was the first regular season NPB no-hitter since Shun Yamaguchi's on July 27th, 2018 (Tomoyuki Sugano threw one in the...
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2019 BBM 2nd Version Franchise Builder Insert Set
One of the gripes that both Ryan and I have had about Japanese baseball cards is that there haven't been many cards that feature ballparks on them. Sure BBM did a subset featuring all the current...
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More Epoch One Cards
I mentioned the other day that the package I got from Ryan included a bunch of Epoch One cards. He had picked up ten more of them after the Carter Stewart card.If you're not familiar with Epoch One...
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2019 Epoch Pacific League Rookies
Epoch issued a set called Pacific League Rookies a month or so ago. This is apparently going to be an annual issue for them - at least they did one last year as well. This set is described almost...
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Cards From Ryan
I wanted to do one more post on cards I got from Ryan last week. These are just some random cards he found for me.I spent most of my recent Japan trip thinking that the only card I need to complete...
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2019 BBM Team Sets
The bulk of the package I got from Ryan last week contained the last six BBM "comprehensive" team sets that I needed for this year - the Dragons, the Hawks, the Tigers, the Fighters, the Buffaloes and...
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Card Of The Week September 15
I've got kind of a busy weekend this weekend so I decided that I'd get ahead of things a little bit on Friday night and go ahead and prepare the "Card Of The Week" post for Sunday so I didn't have to...
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