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George Arias
2002 BBM 2nd Version #612For a while now I've been wanting to talk to a former NPB player about their experiences playing in Japan and what they knew about their Japanese baseball cards but I've never...
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It's been a bit of a slow start to 2021 Japanese baseball card-wise but there are several sets that are scheduled to come out in the next few months.- BBM's annual set for retiring players is coming...
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Card Of The Week February 7
I picked up this odd card of Eiji Sawamura from Rob Fitts on Ebay recently. I wasn't quite sure what to make of it. It's contemporaneous with the 2004 BBM Giants 70th Anniversary set but I'm pretty...
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Behind The Scenes
I mentioned recently that Epoch was releasing a set next month in conjunction with the Japan Retired Foreign Players Association (JRFPA). George Arias is a member of the JRFPA and will be included in...
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2020 SCC KBO League Premium Collection
I kind of cut back on KBO cards this past year which is somewhat odd considering ESPN's coverage of the league gave it a much higher profile than normal. For me though ESPN's coverage actually made it...
View ArticleMore New Releases
It's funny - I hadn't done a new release post in over two months until last Sunday but there were enough announcements over the last week I'm doing another one already.- The 2021 edition of BBM's...
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Card Of The Week February 14
I mentioned a few weeks back that Masahiro Tanaka was returning to the Eagles after seven years with the Yankees. This past week another player officially returned to his old team from MLB and there's...
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Yang Hyeon-jong of the Texas Rangers
Former Kia Tigers pitcher Yang Hyeon-jong has signed a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers. Yang was the second round pick of the Tigers in the 2007 draft out of Dongsung High School in Seoul...
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Hirokazu Sawamura of the Boston Red Sox
The rumors have been swirling for a week or so but the news was finally official today - pitcher Hirokazu Sawamura, formerly of the Yomiuri Giants and (briefly) the Chiba Lotte Marines, signed a two...
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Card Of The Week February 21
Masahiro Tanaka played in his first exhibition game of the spring yesterday, taking on the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters at the Eagles spring training home in Kin, Okanawa. He struck out the first...
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RIP Takeshi Yasuda
Former Yakult Atoms and Swallows pitcher Takeshi Yasuda has passed away at age 73 from stomach cancer. Yasuda had attended Waseda University in the late 60's before spending a couple seasons playing...
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Ryota Igarashi
I have been putting off getting started on the posts for players who retired at the end of last season for a while now. Part of that was because last season ended up finishing late but I think it's...
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Kyuji Fujikawa
Continuing with the retirement posts...Kyuji Fujikawa was the first pick of the Hanshin Tigers in the 1998 draft out of Kochi Commercial High School. He debuted with the top team in early 2000 as a...
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Kim Tae-Kyun
Kim Tae-Kyun has retired after a 20 year career playing for the Hanwha Eagles in the KBO and the Chiba Lotte Marines of NPB.Kim was a first round pick of the Hanwha Eagles out of Bugil High School in...
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Clayton Hamilton
A few weeks ago I got an email from Clayton Hamilton who asked if I was still in the business of selling NPB baseball cards. His name sounded familiar but I was not sure why. I replied that it wasn't...
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Card Of The Week February 28
I was looking through some older sets recently and came across this card (2009 BBM 2nd Version #789). Believe it or not, this is a photo from 2009 and not 2020 or 2021. I think it was Greg LaRocca...
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Yoshiyuki Ishihara
Back to the retirement posts...Yoshiyuki Ishihara retired after a 19 year career catching for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. He was selected by the team in the fourth round of the 2001 draft from Tohoku...
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Kazuki Yoshimi
Kazuki Yoshimi of the Chunichi Dragons announced his retirement at the end of last season. Yoshimi spent a couple years playing for Toyota in the industrial leagues before he declared for the 2005...
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Park Yong-Taek
Long time LG Twin Park Yong-Taek, the KBO's all time hits leader, has retired. Park was drafted by LG out of high school in 1998 but it appears that this was just some sort of way that teams could...
View ArticleSpring Releases
Here's a quick round up of some recently released sets while I wait for that package from Ryan to show up - it was in New Jersey on Sunday and Washington, DC yesterday. I'm figuring it will be here...
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