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2020 BBM 1st Version Set
2020 BBM 1st Version Set SummarySize: 372 cards numbered 1-336, CB01-CB36Cards Per Team: 28 (team card, manager + 26 players)Team Card Theme: Spring TrainingNumber Of Leader Cards: N/AChecklists:...
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2020 Epoch Lions Rookies & Stars set
Epoch's first "Rookies & Stars" team set for 2020 was for the Saitama Seibu Lions and it came out a couple weeks ago. The base set for the set contained only 36 cards, just a tad more than half...
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2009 World Baseball Classic Round Up - Korean Edition
South Korea's best performance in a World Baseball Classic happened in the 2009 tournament. They were riding a Gold Medal victory in the previous summer's Beijing Olympic games and rolled to a 5-2...
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Card Of The Week May 10
The KBO kicked off their season last week, becoming the second of the top baseball leagues in the world to start play this year after the CPBL (I think there are also professional leagues playing in...
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"2018" Vittum Foreign Attack Set
I received my "2018" Vittum Foreign Attack set today, the latest custom set published by Dan Skrezyna. The official KBO sets don't include any foreign players so for the last few years Dan's been...
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1991 QCard All Stars
Q Card was the other card company that started up in 1991. Unlike BBM, however, they never issued anything else after that year. Their primary product that year was a set of 120 plastic cards of NPB...
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Card Of The Week May 17
Today, May 17th, is the 72nd birthday of former Chicago White Sox outfielder Carlos May. May is well known among baseball fans for having worn uniform number 17 when he was with the White Sox. When...
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Future Bee
For four years from 1998 to 2001 there was another brand available in the Japanese card market. An outfit called "Collection Card Assortment" or "CollecCarA" issued cards for the Baystars, Marines and...
View ArticleMore Team Sets And More
No baseball in Japan yet but that doesn't seem to be slowing down the card makers as a number of new team sets have been announced in the past few weeks.- BBM has announced three more of their annual...
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Kanebo Gold Cards
Dan and I were messaging back and forth via Facebook last night (well, last night -Tuesday night - for me while it was Wednesday morning for Dan in Korea) about some Japanese cards he had recently...
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Card Of The Week May 24
Had a minor mystery cleared up this past week. There's a two card insert set from the 2000 BBM Diamond Heroes set called "Golden Battery". One card is Daisuke Matsuzaka while the other card is Atsuya...
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2000 Japanese Olympic Baseball Team
The 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics were the first Olympics to allow professional baseball players to participate. As usual there were eight teams that took part. An African nation - South Africa -...
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Broccoli Lions Cards
I mentioned in my post about the 2000 Japanese Olympic Baseball team that Daisuke Matsuzaka was extremely popular following his performance in the 1998 Summer Koshien tournament and his subsequent...
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Kanebo - More From 94
I got an email from Rob Fitts after I did my post last week about the Kanebo Gold Card sets from 1993 & 1994. Rob had some unopened packs of Kanebo cards and wanted to know if I was interested in...
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Card Of The Week May 31
I got intrigued by something I came across while researching Osamu Nomura for the post I did on the 2000 Olympic team last week - Nomura was the first pitcher in Japan to beat all 12 NPB teams. I...
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2013 & 2017 World Baseball Classic Roundup - Korean Edition
Korea's performance in the World Baseball Classics since their runner up finish in the 2009 tournament has not been terribly successful. They went 2-1 in Group B of the 2013 tournament which tied them...
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"Shigeo Nagashima" PSA Graded Cards
I did a search on Ebay a couple days ago and I came across a couple of PSA graded Shigeo Nagashima cards that looked a bit odd to me. See if you can pick out what's wrong:So you've probably guessed by...
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Card Of The Week June 7
Rob Fitts has just published an eBook called "An Illustrated Introduction To Japanese Baseball Cards". It's a 82 page pdf that covers the history of Japanese baseball cards from the 19th Century to...
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1989-90 Lotte Gum sets
Lotte, the same company that owns the Marines in Japan and the Giants in Korea, issued two 120 card sets in 1989 and 1990. Both sets were issued in packs containing a single card along with two pieces...
View ArticleSummer Releases
I wanted to do just a quick roundup of the couple new sets that have been announced recently...- Calbee's Series Two set will officially be released on July 6th but it's usually available a few days...
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