Missing Rookies Of The Year
Last week when I did my post about the 2020 NPB Award Winners I noticed that Pacific League Rookie Of The Year Kaima Taira did not have a card in either the 1st or 2nd Version sets from BBM this year....
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Kohei Arihara Of The Texas Rangers
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighter pitcher Kohei Arihara has signed a two year contract with the Texas Rangers. Arihara was selected by four teams in the first round of the 2014 draft - the Fighters, the...
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Card Of The Week December 27
I picked up a "Glorious 3D" insert card of Yu Darvish (#3D01) on Ebay a few months ago. This is one of those cards that looks better in person than in a scan:Here's what the back looks like:
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Kim Ha-seong of the San Diego Padres
The San Diego Padres today signed Kim Ha-seong, formerly of the Kiwoom Heroes, to a contract for reportedly at least four years. Kim was originally a third round pick of the then-Nexen Heroes in the...
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Mail Day From Justin - Fixing My 2017 Epoch Lions Set
I got a package in the mail today from Justin, aka Charm City Autographs, that contained some assorted goodies. Before I go into most of what he sent me though, I need to explain an odd situation I...
View Article2020 In Review - BBM
It goes without saying that 2020 was a challenging year for everyone and that includes baseball card companies. BBM rose to the challenge and managed to pretty much produced their standard slate of...
View Article2020 In Review - Epoch
Epoch's 2020 card releases don't appear to have been affected much by COVID-19. They issued 25 sets this past year which is two fewer than the 27 they did in both 2018 and 2019 but you'd be...
View Article2020 In Review - Calbee
Of the three major card manufacturers in Japan, Calbee's releases were probably the ones that were least affected by the pandemic in 2020. As usual the company issued their flagship set in their...
View Article2020 In Review - Everything Else (Including Korea)
To wrap up my review of the 2020 releases, here's a quick round up of every card set I know of that was released in Japan last year by an outfit other than BBM, Epoch or Calbee.Actually this first set...
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Card Of The Week January 3
This is not a card that you'd probably expect to be seeing on this blog as not only does it show players on an MLB team but it shows players on my least favorite MLB team. But obviously these aren't...
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Nearing 200
I got curious recently about who the active NPB leaders in victories were so I took a look at the leaderboard on NPB's website. After seeing that there's only one pitcher with over 150 wins (Masanori...
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Nearing 2000
So after doing my post yesterday about the starting pitchers who were closing in on 200 wins and Meikyukai membership, I thought I'd do a quick post on the batters who are approaching 2000 hits, the...
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Card Of The Week January 10
Tomoyuki Sugano's posting expired last Thursday without him reaching a contract with an MLB team which means he'll be returning to Japan and the Yomiuri Giants for the 2021 season. With Haruki...
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Shonan SeaRex
It's funny how you can get a wrong piece of information stuck in your head for years. From 2001 to 2010, the farm team for the Yokohama BayStars was known as the "Shonan SeaRex" and had completely...
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Card Of The Week January 17
I was looking through my collection of BBM Orix team set cards from the 00's the other day, looking to see if I had any cards showing a player wearing a "Kobe Surpass" uniform. "Kobe Surpass" was the...
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Invoice And Goodwill
I didn't really intend to but it seems like lately I've been doing a series of posts on things I didn't know about NPB farm teams. Today's installment is about the other team I just discovered had a...
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2020 Calbee Samurai Japan set
Calbee issued a set for the Samurai Japan team back at the end of November. This is the fourth time in five years that Calbee has issued such a set - skipping only 2018. This particular instance of...
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Card Of The Week January 24
I wanted to share two recent Ebay wins I received this past week.BBM used to occasionally do a kind of update to their flagship set back in the days before they switched to issuing the flagship set as...
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2020 BBM Fusion
Fusion, BBM's final set for 2020, came out a little over a month ago. This was about a month later than normal. The base set contains 160 cards split into four separate sections that are unrelated...
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Card Of The Week January 31
The big news of the past week was Masahiro Tanaka's return to NPB after seven years in MLB. I'm not sure what makes me happiest here - his leaving the Yankees or his rejoining the Tohoku Rakuten...
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