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Big Box O'Stuff
There was an auction on Ebay recently (actually not an auction as it was just for sale) for a "Japanese Baseball Memorabilia Lot of 112 Giants Stickers Cards and more". There were 10 pictures of the...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Kanda
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.Jinbocho is a district in the Chiyoda Ward of Tokyo that is known...
View ArticleWinding Down The Old Year And Kicking Off The New One
Here's some recently announced sets that are being released in the next two months:- Epoch is releasing four new entries in their ultra high end combination active/OB player team sets called "Stars...
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Card Of The Week November 10
The Opening Rounds of the 2019 Premier 12 were played last week and Samurai Japan ended up as the champion of Group B, having defeated Venezuela 8-4, Puerto Rico 4-0 and Taiwan 8-1. Japan moves on to...
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Card Shops In Japan: Biblio
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've been categorizing most of the stores I went to in Japan as...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Akihabara
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.Akihabara is an area in Tokyo a little to the north of Tokyo...
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2019 Calbee Series Two
I mentioned when I did my post on Calbee's Series Three set from this year last month that my Series Two set had gotten lost somewhere between Japan and Maryland after Sean put it in the mail in...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Urawa
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.Saitama-city is a city just to the north of Tokyo-city, right over...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Chiba
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.Chiba-prefecture is located just east of Tokyo and occupies the...
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Card Shops In Japan: Wrappers
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.Wrappers is the third baseball card store in Jinbocho and is my...
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Card Of The Week November 17
The 2019 Premier 12 drew to a close today with a pair of pretty good ballgames. The early game today (noon start in Tokyo) was the Bronze Medal game between Mexico and the USA. Besides the Medal, the...
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NPB Players In Winter Leagues
Now that the Premier 12 is over I feel like it's time for the various winter leagues around the globe to start up although actually the Caribbean ones have been going for a couple weeks now. The...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Yokohama
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 Yokohama is another store that has moved since I visited it in...
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Card Shops In Japan: Mint Shibuya & Card Fanatic
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've written recently about several stores that are a bit of a haul...
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Card Shops In Japan: G-Freak
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.When I wrote my post about Biblio recently I mentioned that it was...
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Scott Mathieson
Now that I'm done with the Card Shop posts it's time to get back to the retirement posts...Yomiuri Giants pitcher Scott Mathieson announced his retirement at the conclusion of this year's Nippon...
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Card Of The Week November 24
I did a post last week about NPB players playing in winter ball in Australia, Mexico and Puerto Rico. I forgot about another winter league that kicked off this weekend that actually features more NPB...
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Kensuke Tanaka
We knew going into last season that it was going to be Kensuke Tanaka's final one as he had announced it last December when he signed his 2019 contract with Nippon-Ham. Tanaka was the second round...
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2019 Award Winners
NPB announced most of their major awards this past week. Tomoya Mori of the Lions and Hayato Sakamoto of the Yomiuri Giants were the Pacific League and Central League MVPs respectively.2019 BBM 1st...
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Card Of The Week December 1
Lots of interesting news stories in the past week regarding player comings and goings but probably the most interesting story is that former Hanshin Tiger, New York Met, San Francisco Giant and...
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