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Shukan Baseball Mysteries Revealed
I've been convinced for years that it's a toss up between the cards issued by the teams themselves (or their fan clubs) and the cards BBM has issued in magazines that are the biggest blind spot in the...
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Team Issued Cards From Deanna
As I mentioned yesterday, I recently got a big package of Japanese baseball stuff from Deanna Rubin that included a bunch of baseball cards. A fair number of the cards were team issued cards so I...
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Corporate League Cards
I have been asked from time to time if there are any baseball cards for the corporate league teams in Japan. For those who don't know (and those who do also), the corporate (or industrial) league...
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Card Of The Week June 13
In the fifth inning of today's game against the Swallows, Wladimir Balentien of the Hawks hit his 300th career NPB home run. Coincidentally, it was also his 1000th hit in NPB. He became just the...
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1984 Takara Kids
I included a Takara Kids card of Yutaka Enatsu in a post a few weeks back and Fuji commented that it was an awesome looking card. That inspired me to do a quick post about the set(s).Takara made game...
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RIP Minoru Nakamura
The news broke this past week that former Yomiuri Giants pitcher Minoru Nakamura had passed away earlier this month at the age of 82. Nakamura had signed with the Giants after graduating from...
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Card Of The Week June 20
Had a couple things I thought about doing for Card Of The Week this week and I couldn't decide which one to do so I did all of them...Inter-league play wrapped up this week and surprisingly the Orix...
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NPB Players On The Final Qualifier Rosters
The fight for the last spot in the baseball competition for the Tokyo Olympics starts tonight as the Final Qualifier opens in Puebla, Mexico. The tournament is smaller than originally planned as three...
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Time for another round up of recently announced sets:- After being delayed to October last year, this year's edition of BBM's 2nd Version set will be released at its usual time in early August. BBM...
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My Oldest Sports Card
Earlier this week, Comatoad On Cards asked the question "What's Your Oldest Sports Card?" I don't think he meant is as a "blog bat around" but it sounded like a good one to me so I'm going to take it...
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Card Of The Week June 27
Former Orix Buffaloes pitcher Brandon Dickson (not to be confused with current Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles outfields Brandon Dixon) signed a minor league deal with the St Louis Cardinals recently. I...
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JWBL Players Move On
The Japan Women's Baseball League (JWBL) suspended operations after last season and I'm under the impression that their chances of resuming business as usual are pretty low. This isn't a...
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Mail Day From Steve Plus One
I've been doing some somewhat convoluted trades with a collector named Steve for about a year now. I say "convoluted" because generally he's not asking me for something I have in hand - he wants...
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Card Of The Week July 4
70 years ago today the first All Star game in NPB history took place at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya. The Central League defeated the Pacific League 2-1 in a game that took less than two hours to...
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RIP Yasunori Ohshima
Sad news broke earlier this week - longtime Chunichi Dragons and Nippon-Ham Fighters player Yasunori Ohshima passed away on June 30th after a four year battle with colon cancer. Oshima was the...
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Card Of The Week July 11
I went to the Orioles-White Sox game Friday night in Baltimore, my first in-person MLB game since September of 2019. The Orioles scored first on a solo home run from Ramon Urias in the second but the...
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2021 Epoch NPB set
NPB, Epoch's annual "flagship" set, was released back on May 29th. This is the fourth edition of the set and it's very similar to the earlier ones.This set seems to always present problems for me and...
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2021 Calbee Series Two
Calbee's Series Two set was released a couple weeks back. As the name implies, this is Calbee's second of three expected sets this year. Like Series One which came out back in March, the base set...
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The Central League No-Hits The Pacific League
2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #S-0150 years ago today, Yutaka Enatsu of the Hanshin Tigers was the starting pitcher for the Central League in Game One of the 1971 NPB All Star Series in Nishinomiya...
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Card Of The Week July 18
One of the odd things I discovered while working on my post about Yutaka Enatsu and four other Central League pitchers no-hitting the Pacific League in an All Star game 50 years ago yesterday was that...
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