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Toshiaki Imae
Eagles third baseman Toshiaki Imae announced his retirement in late October. Imae was originally drafted out of high school baseball powerhouse PL Gakuen by the Chiba Lotte Marines in the third round...
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Some recent announcements of a couple expensive new sets being released this month:- Epoch issued their first baseball card set about 10 years ago with a box set celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the...
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2019 Konami Baseball Collection
One of my regrets from my trip to Japan earlier this year was that I didn't think to look for any 2019 Konami Baseball Collection cards when I took a quick look in the gaming card store next to Mint...
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Card Of The Week December 8
I recently picked up these two promo cards from BBM Giants team set this year:I originally thought these cards were giveaways at Giants games on the days indicated on the front of the cards but it...
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Mandarake Mail Day
I recently placed another vintage baseball card order with Mandarake, the Japanese chain of antique toy stores that will ship to the US. I got the cards today so I thought I'd do a quick post on...
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RIP Takeo Daigo
Longtime Orions catcher Takeo Daigo has passed away from Acute myeloid leukemia at age 81. Daigo signed with the then-Mainichi Orions in 1957 after graduating from Waseda Kitsugyo High School (where...
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RIP Yasuhiro Takai
Former Hankyu Braves pinch hitting specialist Yasuhiro Takai passed away yesterday from renal failure at age 74. Takai graduated from a high school in Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku in 1962 and spent a...
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Card Of The Week December 15
This 1987 Calbee card (#107) of Warren Cromartie features one of the greatest photos to ever be on a baseball card:
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2019 Calbee Samurai Japan set
For the third time in four years Calbee has issued a team for Samurai Japan. The set was released while the Premier 12 was going on (which I'm sure was not a coincidence) but the set is not for that...
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Josh Lindblom Of The Milwaukee Brewers
Josh Lindblom is returning to MLB after a couple seasons playing in Korea with the Lotte Giants and Doosan Bears. He signed a three deal with the Milwaukee Brewers.Lindblom was a second round pick of...
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2019 BBM Fusion
BBM's last set for 2019 (at least the last one labeled as a 2019 set) is Fusion which was released in mid-November. Fusion is kind of a Frankenstein of a set - the base set consists of four parts that...
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Favorite Card Of 2019
The last couple years I've taken part in the contest/challenge that P-Town Tom of the Waiting 'til Next Year blog has run for bloggers to pick their favorite card of the year. Each time I took part it...
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Card Of The Week December 22
I picked this card up a couple weeks ago from a seller on Ebay:I had a kind of interesting time trying to figure out who this was and what set it came from. I was a bit surprised that the seller on...
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2019 Epoch Giants 85th Anniversary
I bought one of the latest KBO sets from Dan Skrezyna recently (which I'll posting about soon) and there was an unexpected surprise in the box he sent the set in. Dan has a PC for Lee Seung-Yeop, the...
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Hawk Hits
I'm pretty much just a collector of base sets. It's not that I don't like getting insert, autograph or memorabilia cards - it's just that I generally don't like paying the extra expense for them. I...
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2019 SCC KBO Collection 2
SCC issued a set of cards for the KBO back in October. This is their third set for the year following the KBO Collection set in June and the Premium set in August. This set is entitled KBO Collection...
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Card Of The Week December 29
There's been a couple of Japanese players who've signed with MLB clubs over the last couple weeks but the big news this past week was about two players who won't be moving across the Pacific. Ryosuke...
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2019 Calbee Samurai Japan Special Limited Edition Box Set
I had mentioned a few weeks back that I had picked up the Special Limited Edition Box Set that Calbee had put out as some sort of Lucky Card redemption (I think) with their Samurai Japan set this fall....
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Giants 3D Cards
I wanted to do another quick post on some other cards I got from Dan Skrezyna. Dan had picked up a lot of six 3D Giants cards because it contained a card of Lee Seung-Yeop. He kept the Lee card, sent...
View Article2019 In Review - BBM
2019 looked a lot like 2018 for BBM. As they had done in the previous year, they issued 32 total sets. And as always when I talk about BBM's sets for the year, I'm talking about the ones that have...
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