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2013 & 2017 World Baseball Classic Roundup - Relics
As was the case for the 2006 and 2009 Tournaments, my original posts on the Japanese and Korean team cards for the 2013 and 2017 World Baseball Classics pretty much ignored any memorabilia cards. Once...
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Calbee Rookies
I had expressed some surprise last week when I discovered that Seiya Inoue of the Marines had had a Calbee card in 2014 despite not having been a first round pick in the 2013 draft. I had been under...
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Card Of The Week August 9
The Yomiuri Giants were not having a good time last Thursday night in Nishinomiya. The Tigers starter Haruto Takahashi had held them to just three hits while striking out 11 over seven innings....
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Study Abroad - the Carp in Virginia and Idaho
1989 marked the peak of NPB teams sending players to the US minor leagues. That year there was a record seven teams who had players in North America. It was the last year for the Buffaloes, Whales,...
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Card Of The Week August 16
Yesterday Yasuhiro Ogawa of the Swallows no-hit the Baystars 9-0. Ogawa's nickname is "Ryan" because his motion resembles Nolan Ryan's. Now he has something else in common with The Express (although...
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Trade With Steve
A couple weeks ago I got an email from someone named Steve who had taken a look at my want list and discovered he had six cards that I was looking for. We had a back and forth about what he wanted in...
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Non-Flagship All Stars
Every year from 1991 to 2012 BBM published an annual box set for that season's All Star teams. For the first 20 years or so it would be published in mid-July, just in time for the games but the last...
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Mint Kanda Closing
I wanted to do a quick post to pass along some news I had learned from Ryan of "This Card Is Cool" - Mint Kanda will be closing after August 23rd. Mint Kanda is one of three card shops conveniently...
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Card Of The Week August 23
There were two stories from last week that I was thinking of covering in this week's post but I couldn't decide which one I wanted to do more. So I decided to do them both.First of all last Tuesday...
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Two Sword Players
I did a post a couple weeks ago about Yomiuri Giants infielder Daiki Masuda pitching in a blowout loss against the Hanshin Tigers and how unusual it was for a position player to be used as a pitcher in...
View ArticleFall Releases
A quick roundup of recently announced sets:- BBM has announced two more of their perennial sets that were delayed this year. First up is the second cheerleader/dance squad set. "Dancing Heroing -...
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Just want to do a quick post that I added a page for all Japanese MLB players to the list of pages in the upper right of the blog.
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Card Of The Week August 30
The Tochigi Golden Braves of the independent Baseball Challenge (BC) League appears to have been the last professional stop for a number of notable players in the past few years including Eri Yoshida...
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Most Hall Of Fame Players In A BBM Set
I did a post a while back where I looked into which BBM flagship set had the most Hall Of Famers in it. The answer was the 1991 set which featured 22 Hall Of Famers. The more I've thought about it...
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Card Of The Week September 6
Shohei Ohtani and Shintaro Fujinami were both high school pitchers taken in the first round of the 2012 draft. Both players experienced similar levels of success over their first couple seasons,...
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Super Game Cards From Dan
Got a package in the mail today from Dan of Korean Cardboard. In it were five more cards from the 2000 Teleca "'99 Korea Japan Super Games" insert set:#KJ06#KJ17#KJ29#KJ30#KJ32I'm almost positive...
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Hideki Matsui BBM Flagship Cards
I got several comments on the attractiveness of Hideki Matsui's 1994 BBM card in the post I did about most Hall Of Fame players in a BBM set last week. I replied to a couple of them that I thought...
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Card Of The Week September 13
The Orix Buffaloes did not have a good week last week.That's actually not all that unusual this year. At 23-45-5, Orix has the worst record in NPB. They're 18 1/2 games out of first place in the...
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2010 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version Set - Where Are They Now?
BBM published their sixth set for the Tokyo Big Six League and their seven overall collegiate set in September of 2010. The set was the Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version set. Like the two previous Autumn...
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2018 SCC KBO Premium Memorabilia Cards
I'm not a huge fan of memorabilia cards. Well, actually, that's not quite true. I'm not a huge fan of the expense of memorabilia cards. I've tried to not spend a lot of money on any one particular...
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