1999 Teleca Premium Korea Dream Team
1999 Teleca Premium Korea Dream Team #D-25With South Korea being one of the four teams that has already qualified for this summer's Olympics (along with Japan, Israel and Mexico - the other two will be...
View ArticleCard Of The Week March 1
I was putting the cards from the 2020 BBM Rookie Edition set into my database the other night (because yes, I'm that much of a geek) when I realized that I had been mistaken last fall when I said that...
View ArticleMore Baseball Women
I got a big package of cards from Ryan in the mail today. It's a bit of an overwhelming bunch of cards and I'll probably do six or seven posts on the cards I got. I thought I'd start with something...
View ArticleCard Of The Week March 8
Justin of Charm City Autographs has been haunting the various spring training camps in Arizona for the past month or so, picking up autographs. He sent me a message last week asking me if I'd ever...
View Article2018 Meito Central League Home Run Ice Cream Cards
Back in 2018 the confectionary company Meito gave away baseball cards with boxes of their "Central League Home Run Ice Cream" products. There were 36 cards in all and - as you might assume from the...
View ArticleYet More Epoch One Cards
Continuing my posts about the cards Ryan sent me...Ryan got me another big batch of Epoch One cards both from 2018 and 2019. Epoch One you'll recall is the NPB equivalent of Topps Now. The cards are...
View ArticleTIC Baystars "Mini Colored Paper" Cards
Ryan included a bunch of stuff that I didn't expect in the package I got from him last week. He included about 60 Baystars team issued cards which I'm not going to write about since he did a post on...
View Article2020 BBM Farewell Set
As I've mentioned, Ryan sent me a bunch of stuff last week but there was only one complete set in it - the 2020 edition of BBM's boxed set for the players who retired the previous year. As I've said...
View ArticleRandom Cards From Ryan
I wanted to do a quick post on some of the cards I got from Ryan last week. Most of these I knew were in the box but there were a couple surprises.A couple of the cards completed sets - this card...
View ArticleCard Of The Week March 15
I was ingesting all the BBM flagship cards from the 1990's that I got from Ryan when I came across this card that features a photo that surprised me. See if you can guess what's unusual about it:1999...
View ArticleSCM Cards From Ryan
Ryan also picked up some cards that had originally been published inside issues of Sports Card Magazine (SCM) for me. At my request he bid on (and won) a couple auctions for some cards from 2005 and...
View ArticleSpring Releases
There might not be any baseball being played yet this year but that hasn't stopped the card companies from announcing new releases. Here's a quick list of some recently announced sets.- BBM's annual...
View ArticleBaseball Magazine Cards
Every so often I get the urge to dive into the confusing mess that is Shukan Baseball cards. These are the cards that BBM has given away in random issues of Shukan (Weekly) Baseball. They are...
View ArticleWeekly Baseball Cards 2003-05
I mentioned the other day that I had gotten a big lot of Shukan (Weekly) Baseball cards from Ryan in the package I got from him a couple weeks ago. I've updated checklist I've been working on for...
View ArticleCard Of The Week March 22
I got about 120 1999 BBM cards from Ryan in the package he sent me a couple weeks ago and a thought occurred to me while I was putting them away. I noticed that there were several players in the set -...
View ArticleWeekly Baseball Cards 2006-10
Here's another batch of Shukan (Weekly) Baseball cards. These are all from between 2006 and 2010 although the bulk of them are from 2006 and 2007. I'm not sure if I don't have many cards from 2008-10...
View ArticleWeekly Baseball Postcards
Lurking in the package that Ryan sent me a few weeks back were a bunch of postcards. I wasn't sure what they were at first but a little investigation showed that they were published with issues of...
View ArticleWeekly Baseball Cards 2011-14
This is the last batch of Shukan (Weekly) Baseball cards that I got from Ryan. As I've mentioned before, most of the cards included with the magazine since 2010 have just been promos for BBM sets....
View Article1992 Japanese Olympic Baseball Team
The Olympics might have been delayed a year but I'm going to keep publishing these like I had originally planned.The 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain were the first games to feature baseball as...
View ArticleCard Of The Week March 29
I've been working from home for most of the last two weeks and today I finally picked up my desk enough so that I can put my work laptop on it next to my home computer. I've been sitting on the couch...
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