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Sports Graphic Number Box Breaks
Pete, the reader who sent me information on breaks for a couple boxes of this year's BBMGenesis set, also sent me information and pictures for a couple boxes of sets from Sports Graphic Number. Sports...
View ArticlePrestige Collectibles Auction #44
The latest Prestige Collectibles Auction started today and will run for two weeks, ending on November 19. As always there's lots of very cool stuff, including some pre-war collegiate cards, cards from...
View ArticleFree Shipping From Rakuten Global Market
I got an email from Rakuten Global Market early yesterday morning regarding an upcoming period where they will be offering free overseas shipping on qualifying orders. I don't think this is a tie-in...
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2004 BBM 1st Version Set
2004 BBM 1st Version Set SummarySize: 440 cardsCards Per Team: 32 (team card, manager + 30 players)Team Card Theme: Spring TrainingNumber Of Leader Cards: 37Checklists: NoneSubsets: Up Coming...
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Card Of The Week November 10
Samurai Japan swept the three game "Baseball Challenge" against Taiwan this weekend, making Hiroki Kokubo's initial outing as the national team manager a success. I thought Kokubo's "Swing For The...
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NPB Players In Caribbean Winter Leagues
A couple of teams have sent a handful of players to play in the Caribbean this winter. The Giants have sent Yuki Egarashi and Ryuji Ichioka to play for the Ponce Lions in Puerto Rico. The Hawks have...
View ArticleD'oh!
I was messing around with the blog layout and accidentally reset it to something else. Oh, well, I was thinking about trying to change it anyway...So don't adjust your computer - the layout has...
View ArticleWhere Are They Now - 2008 Collegiate Players
There aren't many options for "pre-rookie" cards in Japan. The NPB teams each have one minor league team, but there's no team sets available for the minor league squads. Pretty much every player who...
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Card Of The Week November 17
My friend in Japan that I buy cards from occasionally includes the latest Sports Card Magazine when he sends me cards. I got my latest shipment from him on Friday and, sure enough, he included issue...
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2013 Calbee Series Three
The final Calbee set this year (Series Three) got released back in September but (as is typical for me) I just got my set in the mail last week. There's 101 cards in the set this time (unlike the 100...
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2013 BBM Fighters 10th Season In Hokkaido set
Following the 2003 season, the Nippon Ham Fighters, who had shared a ballpark in Tokyo with the Yomiuri Giants since 1964 (when they were the Toei Flyers), moved to Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido,...
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Card Of The Week November 24
The Hanshin Tigers signed former Samsung Lions pitcher Seung Hwan Oh this past week. Oh is expected to step into the closer role vacated by Kyuji Fujikawa when he left for the major leagues a year...
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2013 Award Winners
The last of the major NPB awards was announced this week and not surprisingly, Masahiro Tanaka was unanimously elected MVP of the Pacific League and somewhat surprisingly, Wladimir Balentien was...
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2013 BBM Fukuoka Legacy Set
The Hawks celebrated their 75th Anniversary this past season. BBM put out a set in commemoration last summer. The 2013 season was also the 25th season that the Hawks played in Fukuoka, having moved...
View ArticleNew Sets and WTF?
A round up of some new stuff I've seen lately:- BBM put up information for a couple new sets recently:There's a box set commemorating Tomonori Maeda's career coming out in early December. The set...
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Card Of The Week December 1
I had mentioned the other day that Masahiro Tanaka had become just the third NPB player ever to win the MVP, the Sawamura Award and Rookie Of The Year. The other two were Tsuneo Horiuchi and Hideo...
View ArticleNPB Ex-Patriots In BBM Sets
Ryan and I had a little back and forth last week in the comments to my post on the new BBM Fighters 10th Season in Hokkaido set regarding Japanese MLB players and the circumstances around which they...
View ArticleNPB Ex-Patriots In Non-BBM Sets
I did a lot of research for the post on NPB Ex-Patriots appearing in BBM sets but I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't do quite enough research. If I had, I wouldn't have claimed that Calbee had never...
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Card Of The Week December 8
For some reason (probably due to him being relatively well known in the US) it has long been difficult for me to pick up a card of Victor Starffin that was issued during his playing days. I finally...
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2004 BBM 2nd Version set
2004 BBM 1st Version Set SummarySize: 412 cards (numbered 441-852)Cards Per Team: 32 (team card, manager + 30 players)Team Card Theme: Game Winning CelebrationsNumber Of Leader Cards: N/AChecklists:...
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