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Card Of The Week August 29
Shugo Maki of the Yokohama DeNA Baystars hit for the cycle in last Wednesday's game against the Hanshin Tigers at Osaka Dome. Maki is the first rookie in NPB history to hit for the cycle. Here's the...
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Card Of The Week September 5
Sorry I haven't posted anything for a week. I've been working on a couple projects and I was away from home for a couple days. I'm going to do a quick post today on a card I picked up a few months...
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2021 BBM 2nd Version set
2021 BBM 2nd Version Set SummarySize: 318 cards (cards numbered 337-600, the 18 cards of "Ceremonial First Pitch" subset are separately numbered FP01-FP18and 36 cards for the "Cross Torrent" subset are...
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2021 BBM Dragons History 1936-2021
BBM issued the latest in their OB team set "History" series a few weeks ago. This one is called "Dragons History 1936-2021" and is the third is in the series following last year's "Carp History...
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Card Of The Week September 12
The Buffaloes and Marines started last week in a virtual tie for first place in the Pacific League (although Lotte was technically in first since they had a slightly better winning percentage) and as...
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Takumi Kuriyama
I'm a little late getting to this but on September 4th (one day after his 38th birthday) Takumi Kuriyama of the Lions became the latest NPB player to reach 2000 hits. Kuriyama was Seibu's fourth round...
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Take Me To Your Leader
1991 BBM #219One of the hallmarks of BBM's flagship sets used to be their "Leader" subset. From 1991 to 2013 BBM included 20 or 30 cards in their "regular" set (1991-2001) or their 1st Version set...
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RIP Satoshi "Fibber" Hirayama
Former Hiroshima Carp outfielder Satoshi "Fibber" Hirayama passed away earlier this week at age 91. Hirayama was born in Exeter, California to Japanese immigrant parents. He spent several years...
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Card Of The Week September 19
Swallows third baseman Munetaka Murakami hit his 35th home run of the season today against the Carp. It was also the 100th home run of his career. At the age of 21 years, seven months, Murakami is...
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2011 BBM Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version set - Where Are They Now?
Ten years ago this month BBM released their latest collegiate set, the Tokyo Big Six Autumn Version set. It was their ninth collegiate set and the eighth to feature the Tokyo Big Six. This would be...
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I want to do a quick post to get caught up on the sets that have been announced in the last month or so.- BBM's annual "Rookie Edition Premium" set will be released in late October. As usual this is a...
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Card Of The Week September 26
20 years ago today, the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes clinched their fourth and final Pacific League pennant when pinch hitter Hirotoshi Kitagawa hit a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the ninth against...
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Carpet O'Cards - 500 Home Run Club
There's a guy on Twitter named George Bennett who periodically tweets out photos of "carpets o'cards" - a group of baseball cards laid out that share some sort of theme. He did one a while back with...
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Card Of The Week October 3
The then-first place Marines and then-second place Buffaloes played a three game series last week in Chiba and it did not got well for Lotte. Orix beat them 5-2 on Tuesday and then pummeled them 15-2...
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Dual Champion Candidates
MLB's playoff teams for 2021 are now set and I wanted to do quick post about which players on those teams could possibly become the next member of the "dual champions" club - players who have won both...
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Topps And NPB
You've probably already heard the news that Topps issued a press release today saying that they had entered into a licensing agreement with NPB to produce baseball cards for the league. The release...
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2021 Calbee Series Three
Calbee released this year's Series Three set about a month ago. Like their earlier Series One and Series Two sets, the Series Three set contained 88 cards. The 88 cards are split between 72 player...
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2021 BBM Marines History 1950-2021
BBM published a set called "Marines History 1950-2021" a few weeks ago. This is the fourth entry in their series of OB team sets using the "History" label, following last year's Carp and Giants sets...
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Card Of The Week October 10
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows were in a bit of a bind on Thursday night. They went into the bottom of the ninth of their game against the Yomiuri Giants having been held hitless the entire game by...
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2021 NPB Draft
It was draft day today in NPB and as usual I want to do a quick post about the handful of players drafted who already have baseball cards. There haven't been any collegiate cards published in Japan...
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