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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Umeda
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.There are a lot of card shops in Japan but they aren't evenly...
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Card Of The Week October 13
Both the Central and Pacific Climax Series reached their...uh...climax today with the Giants knocking off the Tigers 4-1 to win that the CL Series 4 games to 1 and the Hawks beat Seibu 9-3 to upset the...
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Shinnosuke Abe
Another player who announced his retirement at the end of the season was Shinnosuke Abe of the Yomiuri Giants (although he was on the Giants roster for the Climax Series and I assume he will be for the...
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Kazuya Fukuura
Kazuya Fukuura of the Chiba Lotte Marines is another player who retired at the end of the season. I did a post about him just over a year ago when he got his 2000th (and as it turned out final) hit so...
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More Lions Team Issued Cards
I won a couple Ebay auctions from a seller a few weeks back that gave me two binders of miscellaneous Lions cards from the late 1990's to the late 2000's. It was an interesting mix of cards - mostly...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Hiroshima
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.Mint Hiroshima is the latest addition to the Mint chain of trading...
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2019 Premier 12 Samurai Japan Roster
The 2019 Premier 12 is kicking off in just over two weeks on November 2nd although Japan doesn't play their first game until the 5th. Two teams out of the tournament will qualify for the 2020...
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2019 NPB Draft
Today was draft day for NPB. In the past I've always mislabelled the draft by using the following year in identifying it (for instance calling the draft that happened in October of 2015 the "2016...
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2019 Premier 12 Korean Roster
Thought I'd do a quick post featuring the Korean roster for the upcoming Premier 12. Well, maybe "quick" isn't the right word as the lack of English on most of my Korean cards makes any post that has...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Fukuoka
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.Mint Fukuoka is yet another example of one of the Mint chain's...
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Card Of The Week October 20
The Nippon Series kicked off this weekend in Fukuoka. The Hawks won both games against the Giants and are halfway to winning their third straight championship. Kodai Senga got the start for the Hawks...
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Sho Aranami
Former Yokohama DeNA Baysters Sho Aranami announced his retirement back at the end of August. Aranami was born and raised in Yokohama and attended Yokohama High School, alma mater of Daisuke Matsuzaka...
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NPB Players On Premier 12 Rosters
I wanted to do a quick post on the current and former NPB players on the rosters of the Premier 12 teams (other than the Samurai Japan roster of course). As far as I can tell, there's at least one NPB...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Hakata
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.I'd been planning my 2019 trip to Japan ever since my first trip to...
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Shohei Tateyama
Shohei Tateyama of the Swallows announced his retirement back in mid-September. Tateyama was a star pitcher for Yakult for about five seasons in the late 00's and early teens but suffered from an...
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Card Of The Week October 27
Last Wednesday the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks completed their sweep of the Yomiuri Giants in this year's Nippon Series. It was the Hawks' third consecutive championship, their fifth in the past six years...
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2008 Upper Deck USA Baseball 2007 Japanese Collegiate All Stars Set - Where...
When I did the retirement post for Sho Aranami the other day I got thinking that I should do a "Where Are They Now?" post for the 2007 Japanese Collegiate All Star cards included in the 2008 Upper Deck...
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Card Shops In Japan: Match Up
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 original plan in Nagoya was to visit all three card shops there...
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Kazuhiro Hatakeyama
Longtime Tokyo Yakult Swallows first baseman Kazuhiro Hatakeyama announced his retirement back in mid-September. He was originally drafted by the team out of high school in the fifth round of the 2000...
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Card Of The Week November 3
This past season's Nippon Series was the second time ever that the Hawks had swept the Giants. The first time was 60 years ago in 1959 when the Hawks were still owned by Nankai and played in Osaka....
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