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2020 BBM 2nd Version set
2020 BBM 2nd Version Set SummarySize: 313 cards (cards numbered 337-600, the 13 cards of "Ceremonial First Pitch History" subset are separately numbered FP01-FP13 and 36 cards for "Cross Blossom"...
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2020 Calbee Series Three
The latest set from Calbee, Series Three, was released a few weeks ago. As the name implies, this is the third part of Calbee's regular set this year. It was preceded by Series One in March and...
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Card Of The Week November 8
The last playoff spot in NPB was wrapped up today as the Chiba Lotte Marines beat Saitama Seibu Lions 8-2 to clinch second place in the Pacific League. Due to the delay in the season starting the...
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Hayato Sakamoto
Last Sunday Giants shortstop Hayato Sakamoto became the latest player to reach 2000 hits in Japan and I believe the first since Kazuya Fukuura in 2018. At 42 years and nine months Fukuura was the...
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Jose Lopez
Jose Lopez of the Baystars reached a couple milestones a few weeks back. On October 24th he got his 2000th career hit between MLB and NPB and a week later he got his 1000th hit in NPB. He became only...
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Card Of The Week November 15
The 2020 NPB regular season drew to a close yesterday. There have been two managerial changes already announced. The Rakuten Golden Eagles announced that Hajime Miki would be going back to his old...
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I Bought A Takara Set?
This post is going to feature a couple of things that I rarely do. The first is that I rarely post about something I've picked up on Ebay on the day I receive it. The second is that the item in...
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Study Abroad - The Dragons and Marines in Visalia (And Other Places)
The last instance of NPB teams sending players to play in North America was a slightly more complicated case than all the others. It involved two Japanese teams - the Chunichi Dragons and the Chiba...
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Card Of The Week November 22
The 2020 Nippon Series started yesterday with Tomoyuki Sugano of the Giants and Kodai Senga of the Hawks as the Game One pitching matchup. I'm not going to say too much about the results of Game One...
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Sawamura Photo Survey
Friday, November 20th, was the 86th Anniversary of Eiji Sawamura's 1-0 loss against the US team in Shizuoka during the 1934 All American MLB tour. Sawamura held the US team scoreless until the seventh...
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Players With The Most Cards In My Collection
I got inspired by a post that Night Owl Cards did earlier this week. This is not the first time I've been inspired by him - I've been doing "Opening Day" posts the past few years that are a ripoff off...
View ArticleThe End Is Near
The end of 2020 is fast approaching but there are a couple more sets for the year that have been announced recently. - SCC is releasing their latest KBO set - their fourth of 2020 - today I think....
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Card Of The Week November 29
The 2020 ended last Wednesday with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks sweeping the Yomiuri Giants in four games for the second straight year. This was the Hawks fourth straight championship, their sixth in...
View ArticleInfinity Goes To The Olympics
Infinity, BBM's annual multi-sport set, was released this week. It's base set contains 94 cards featuring athletes in a number of sports, including baseball, track & field, boxing, swimming,...
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Card Of The Week December 6
A while back I learned about a 10 card set that BBM had done back in 2004 for the Marines that was given away with packages of Toppo, a chocolate candy made by Lotte. The cards were only given away in...
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Two Time First Timer
The perception of time is a funny thing. I was 27 years old in 1991 and the 18 years between 1973 and 1991 seemed like a long time. On the other hand, the 30 years from 1991 until now seems like no...
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Card Of The Week December 13
Elkton, Maryland is a little town in the northeast corner of Maryland whose main claim to fame is having been the "Wedding Capital of the East Coast" back a hundred years ago. This was due to Maryland...
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2020 Award Winners
NPB announced most of their major awards this week. Yuki Yanagita of the Hawks and Tomoyuki Sugano of the Giants were named Pacific and Central League MVPs respectively.2020 BBM 1st Version #0472020...
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The Biggest Stretch
Sean posed an interesting question in a comment to my post last week about the only player to appear (as a player) in both the first Calbee set in 1973 and the first BBM set in 1991. He asked "What is...
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Card Of The Week December 20
The Australian Baseball League kicked off their 2020/21 season last week...kind of. Only two of the eight scheduled games were able to be played. The Canberra Cavalry was unable to travel to Perth...
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