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Card Of The Week March 7
I had mentioned a few months ago that former Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters pitcher Masaru Nakamura was the only Japanese player in this past winter's Australian Baseball League. Nakamura's team, the...
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2020 Epoch One
Among the items Ryan picked up for me were a bunch of Epoch One cards from last year. Just to remind you - Epoch One is the Japanese version of Topps Now. The cards are made available online for a...
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Cards From Ryan
I wanted to do a post showing off some of the random cards I got from Ryan in this recent box. Some of these were cards I specifically asked him to pick up for me while others were ones he surprised...
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Iconography
BBM has issued a box set called "Icons" every March since 2013. Each year's edition has a different theme - in 2013 it was "Hope" (young players), 2014 was "Big Guns" (power hitters), 2015 was "Aces"...
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AIAIO JWBL Cards
One of the complete sets that Ryan sent was the 2015 AIAIO set for the Japan Women's Baseball League (JWBL). Cards of the league are kind of scarce - Epoch did sets for it in 2016 and 2018 and BBM...
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The Wyverns, the Raiders and the 2000 Teleca Set
I'm going to take a quick break from posting about the box of cards I got from Ryan last week because the SK Wyverns of the KBO are no more. SK has sold the team to a company called Shinsegae and the...
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Team Issued Cards From Ryan
Getting back to the box of cards I got from Ryan last week...Ryan included a bunch of team issued cards - for the most part these are either cards issued to members of a team's fan club or a stadium...
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Card Of The Week March 15
The magaizine Shukan (Weekly) Baseball puts out a special "Season Memorial" issue at the end of every year that has a recap of that year for NPB (and the Japanese players in MLB). There was a six year...
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2011 BBM GPBL Cards
I had mentioned the other day that BBM had done cards for the Japan Women's Baseball League (JWBL) in 2010 and 2011 when it was still called the Girls Professional Baseball League (GPBL). (The league...
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SCM Cards From Ryan
One of my on-going projects is attempting to get every baseball related card that was given away in issues of Sports Card Magazine (SCM). Or at least get every baseball related card that was not...
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2020 Epoch Pacific League Rookies
Also in that big box I got from Ryan recently was last year's Epoch Pacific League Rookies set. 2020 was the third year that Epoch did this set and last year's set looks pretty much like the ones from...
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2020 Epoch Carp & Buffaloes Rookies & Stars sets
After a couple years of issuing "comprehensive" team sets for a subset of the NPB teams in 2018 and 2019 under the "Rookies & Stars" label Epoch last year changed course a little and instead issued...
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2020 Eagles Team Issued Set
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles have published their own baseball card set for at least the last nine years. That may not sound impressive - after all, almost all the NPB teams issue their own...
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Card Of The Week March 21
I've mentioned in the last couple posts that I've been trying to pick up cards of ikusei players whenever I can lately. My main reason for this is to try to get as complete a representation of NPB as...
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2020 BBM Giants "The Tokyo Culture" inserts
Every year since the last 00's BBM has included a group of "Giants Pride" cards with their Giants "comprehensive" team set. It started out as a subset in the base set but since BBM standardized the...
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1995 BBM Final Five
The 1995 BBM set is a bear to try to complete. Ryan wrote a post about his attempts to complete this set recently and he lays out some of the issues in it. There are four short printed subsets (the...
View ArticleBlog Bat Around - My Projects VI - The Voyage Home
A couple years back I took part in a Blog Bat Around suggested by Night Owl Cards that had me do a post that listed all the various projects that I was working on. I've done update posts for it around...
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Play Ball (2021)
Another day, another idea stolen from Night Owl Cards...I'm continuing my Opening Day tradition of doing a post showing a baseball card from the last year that each of the 12 NPB teams won the Nippon...
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Card Of The Week March 28
The Baystars and Giants had a hard fought game on Opening Day last Friday. Yomiuri took a three run lead in the bottom of the first but the Baystars got two in the second and one in the third to tie...
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2020 BBM Team Sets
A big part of the cards I got in that huge box from Ryan a couple weeks back were BBM's 2020 "comprehensive" team sets for the twelve NPB clubs. A "comprehensive" team set is a set that contains all...
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