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News broke today that Topps has renewed their license with NPB for 2022. The announcement says that "Topps plans to launch several new NPB products throughout 2022" but, like the announcement of their...
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Worst NPB Sets Of All Time
The Trading Card Database's Twitter feed has been doing a countdown of the 40 worst baseball card sets of all time according to a reader's survey for the past couple of weeks. It's been kind of...
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Card Of The Week April 3
Marines pitcher Roki Sasaki had a very good outing today, going eight innings (99 pitches) against the Lions in Chiba and striking out 13 while only giving up three hits and one run along with no...
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2012 BBM Tokyo Big Six Set - Where Are They Now?
In April of 2012, ten years ago this month, BBM released their latest collegiate set dedicated to the Tokyo Big Six league. It was their ninth set for the league and tenth collegiate set overall.  It...
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Two Great Third Basemen
I recently picked up a card that I'd been wanting to get for years. This is from the 1975 NST "Mr. Baseball" set and shows Shigeo Nagashima and Brooks Robinson. The photo was taken during the Orioles...
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Card Of The Week April 10
Roki Sasaki threw a perfect game today against the Orix Buffaloes. There's so many amazing things about this game that its hard to figure out what to say next. It was the 16th perfect game in NPB...
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1994 BBM Perfect Pitching Set
Today's perfect game by Roki Sasaki was the first in NPB since Hiromi Makihara's in 1994. Makihara's feat inspired BBM to put out a set dedicated to all the perfect games in NPB history. Called...
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2009 BBM Giants Expression Set
Dan of Korean Cardboard sent me two Giants related sets last week - the 2009 BBM Giants Expression set and the 2010 Giants "Winning Game Card" set. I'll talk about the 2010 set soon but I wanted to do...
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2010 Giants Winning Game Cards
When I did my post about the 2009 BBM Giants Expression set yesterday, I mentioned that Dan had also sent me the complete 2010 Giants Winning Game Card set. As it sounds, this was a set that contains...
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Card Of The Week April 17
Today is Sunday which means it's once again "Roki Sasaki acts like he's playing NPB with a cheat code" day. Today of course was Sasaki's first start since he threw a perfect game against the Buffaloes...
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Best NPB Sets Of All Time
I made up a list of what I considered the worst NPB sets of All Time a few weeks back and decided while I was doing it that I should do a more positive list as well. So I put together a list of the...
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Rick Van Den Hurk
Former Fukuoka Softbank Hawk and Tokyo Yakult Swallow pitcher Rick Van Den Hurk announced his retirement in a post on his website yesterday. Van Den Hurk had spend ten years in the Marlins, Orioles...
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Card Of The Week April 24
There must have been something in the air last week as there were a number of near no-hitters in Japan. First, of course, was Roki Sasaki's eight perfect innings on Sunday. On Tuesday, Burch Smith of...
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RIP Toshizo Sakamoto
Toshizo Sakamoto, infielder for four different Pacific League teams between 1967 and 1980, passed away about a month ago from Parkinson's disease but it didn't make the news until today. Sakamoto is...
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Card Of The Week May 1
The Mets had five pitchers combine to no-hit the Phillies on Friday night. It was the second no-hitter in Mets history but would have been the first had replay review existed in 2012. One of the five...
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History Of Calbee Part 1 - 1973 to 1977
2022 is the 50th year that Calbee has been doing baseball cards so I thought it might be interesting to do a series of posts covering their history. My goal is to do one of these a month between now...
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Former JWBL Players Down Under
The 2022 Australian Women's Baseball Showcase will be kicking off this Thursday in Geelong, Victoria. Three teams - the Adelaide Giants, Brisbane Bandits and Victoria Aces - will play four games each...
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It's been a little bit since the last time I did a round up of upcoming sets - so long, in fact, that there's 11 sets to talk about! Most of them are team sets but one is Epoch's flagship set. Let's...
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Roki Sasaki Epoch One Cards
Roki Sasaki's perfect game back on April 10th was commemorated by THREE separate Epoch One cards. Card #108 was for the perfect game, card #109 was for the 13 consecutive strikeouts and card #110 was...
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Card Of The Week May 8
On Friday, all eyes were on Chiba where Roki Sasaki of the Marines was matched up against Kodai Senga of the Hawks. But while Sasaki put in another impressive performance, striking out 11 in six...
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