2008 Giants Pride Postcards And Stickers
I received a nice surprise in the mail last week - Dan Skrezyna had sent me an assortment of postcards and stickers published by the Yomiuri Giants back in 2008. Dan has a player collection for Lee...
View ArticleActive Former Olympians
The Opening Ceremony for the pandemic delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics happens this Friday but the competition has already started. Both the softball and women's soccer events have started and baseball...
View ArticleMore Summer Sets
I wanted to do another quick round up on some recently announced sets:- BBM's final "comprehensive" team set for 2021 is for the Tigers and is being released...checks notes...today, I think. Like the...
View Article2021 Japanese Olympic Baseball Team
We're about three days out from the start of the Olympic baseball competition and I thought it was time to finally do a post for the Samurai Japan team. This is the eighth Olympics that Japan has...
View Article2021 Korean Olympic Baseball Team
I wanted to follow up yesterday's post for the Samurai Japan Olympic team with a post for the Korean Baseball Team for the Tokyo Games. South Korea is the defending Gold Medal baseball champion,...
View ArticleCard Of The Week July 25
When I was researching my post on the Korean Olympic Baseball Team, I was surprised when I saw that one player - Lee Jung-hoo - was actually born in Nagoya, Japan! When I started reading his...
View ArticleNPB And KBO Players On Olympic Team Rosters
I wanted to do one final post on the Olympic Baseball Rosters. This post lists the former and active foreign players from both NPB and KBO who are on the rosters for the Dominican Republic, Israel,...
View ArticleActive Former Korean Olympians
I did a post last week on the former Japanese Olympic baseball players still active in either NPB or MLB but for some reason it took me a week to realize that I could do a similar post for Korean...
View ArticleErnesto Mejia
This past week Ernesto Mejia asked for and received his release from the Saitama Seibu Lions. Mejia wanted to be able to spend time with his family and he was unable to bring them to Japan.Mejia...
View ArticleCard Of The Week August 1
You'll have to forgive them if the Dominican Republic Olympic Baseball team is feeling snake-bit.In the opening game of the baseball competition last week, the Dominicans had a 3-1 lead on Samurai...
View ArticleRecent Japanese Hideo Nomo Card?
I've mentioned numerous times that Hideo Nomo has not had a Japanese card - at least not one depicting him in an NPB uniform - since he left Japan for the Dodgers after the 1994 season. Recently I...
View ArticleRIP Yusuke Kinoshita
Stunning news today out of Nagoya - Chunichi Dragons pitcher Yusuke Kinoshita passed away earlier this week after collapsing during practice a month ago. It's not clear what the cause of death was....
View ArticleStefan Romero
Stefen Romero of the Orix Buffaloes was the second foreign player to ask for and receive his release during the Olympic break. Like Ernesto Mejia, Romero was unhappy that he was separated from his...
View ArticleCard Of The Week August 8
As you probably already know, Samurai Japan won the Olympic Gold Medal for baseball yesterday by defeating Team USA in a nail-biter of a ballgame 2-0. Munetaka Murakami hit a solo home run in the...
View ArticleZenMarket
I wanted to do a quick post on a new proxy service that I've started using - ZenMarket.jp. Twitter user Yeh had told me about them a couple months back. For those who don't know what a proxy service...
View ArticleFirst Card vs Rookie Card
Dan Skrezyna and I had a conversation* a week or so ago about what should be considered the "rookie card" (RC) for Korean players who pre-date the licensed KBO sets (which started in 2014). Dan's...
View ArticleCard Of The Week August 15
Carter Stewart, the Atlanta Braves top draft pick from 2018 who went unsigned due to the team lowballing him because he had a wrist injury and ended up signing with the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in 2019,...
View ArticleKris Johnson
Former Hiroshima Toyo Carp pitcher Kris Johnson announced his retirement last week. Johnson had joined the Carp in 2015 after sending nine years in the Red Sox, Pirates and Twins organizations. He...
View ArticleCard Of The Week August 22
Takeya Nakamura came up with the bases loaded in the first inning today against the Orix Buffaloes in Osaka and did what he's done 21 times before, more than any other batter in NPB history:It was...
View ArticleSeptember Sets
I wanted to do a quick post about several recently announced sets that will be released in September.- Epoch will be releasing their latest collaboration with the OB Club, Career Achievement, on...
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