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Card Of The Week September 4
Joey Meneses of the Washington Nationals is one of the feel-good stories of the 2022 MLB season. After kicking around the Braves, Phillies and Red Sox organizations for ten years (with one year in...
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Shukan Baseball Cover Baseball Cards
I got inspired - as I often do - by a post Night Owl Cards did a while back. This particular post had to do with baseball cards featuring magazine covers - specifically some Fleer issues from the late...
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50 Years!
Yesterday, September 9th, was the 50th Anniversary of the first baseball game I ever went to. We had just moved into a new house in the Bay Area and my grandparents and my uncle had come out to visit...
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Card Of The Week September 11
Yesterday's post about the first baseball game I ever went to mentioned Bernie Williams, the San Francisco Giants outfielder who ended up spending six years playing for the Hankyu Braves in the late...
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2021 BBM Glory Roki Sasaki - Is It A Rookie Card?
I came across an auction on Ebay recently for a "Glorious 3D" insert card for Roki Sasaki from the 2021 BBM Glory set. The seller labeled it as a "rookie card" which I pretty much ignored since many...
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Card Of The Week September 18
Having a busy weekend so I'm just going to show off a card I recently picked up featuring a pair of Swallows sluggers including one who's been having a very good season:2021 Topps NPB #GP-4
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KBO 40 Legend
As part of the KBO's 40th Anniversary celebration the league has announced the "40 Legends" team, a ranking of the 40 greatest players in KBO history. The list was compiled by a combination of an...
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Card Of The Week September 25
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows are the 2022 Central League Champions! The Swallows clinched their second straight title with a 1-0 victory over the Yokohama DeNA Baystars today. Yakult won the game in the...
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RIP Masaaki Ikenaga
Former Nishitetsu Lions pitcher Masaaki Ikenaga passed away from cancer yesterday at age 76. Ikenaga was a stand out pitcher for the Lions in the late 60's, with three 20 win seasons in his first four...
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History Of Calbee Part 6 - 1998 To 2003
I mentioned in my last post in this series that the 1997 Calbee set could be viewed as the first "modern" Calbee set but that it was "transitional form" between the older sets and today's Calbee sets....
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Card Of The Week October 2
Today was the last day of the Pacific League season and today the Orix Buffaloes caught the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. The two teams finished the season with identical 76-65-2 records but since Orix won...
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KBO 40 Legend In NPB
I had done a post a few weeks back on the "KBO 40 Legend" - a list of the top 40 retired players in the 40 year history of the KBO. I pointed out in the post that 11 of the 40 players had also played...
View ArticleOctober-November Releases
I wanted to do a quick round up of some recently announced sets that'll be released either this month or next.- Epoch has two more of their ultra-high end combination active/OB player "Stars &...
View Article2022 Epoch NPB Luxury Collection
I left off a recently announced set from yesterday's post because I hadn't seen any details about it yet. So of course Epoch put information up about the set on their website today. The set is called...
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Card Of The Week October 9
Four NPB teams will have a new manager in the dugout next spring. Last spring Akihiro Yano of the Tigers had said he would step down as manager at the end of the season and the Tigers recently...
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RIP Yasumitsu Shibata
Former Lions and Fighters pitcher Yasumitsu Shibata passed away from arrhythmia yesterday at the age of 65. Shibata played for a couple of industrial league teams after graduating from high school....
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2022 BBM 2nd Version set
2022 BBM 2nd Version Set SummarySize: 326 cards (cards numbered 337-600, the 26 cards of "Ceremonial First Pitch" subset are separately numbered FP01-FP26 and 36 cards for the "Cross Grotto" subset are...
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2022 BBM Swallows History 1950-2022
BBM issued the "Swallows History 1950-2022" set back in late August. This is the seventh in their OB team "history" sets going back the past few years. Following the lead of the previous sets, this...
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Card Of The Week October 16
The participants for the 2022 Nippon Series have been determined and for the second year in a row it's the Swallows and the Buffaloes. The Swallows completed their sweep of the Tigers on Friday to...
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2022 BBM Roki Sasaki - Perfect Game
In late August BBM published a box set celebrating Roki Sasaki's perfect game from last April. Entitled descriptively but unimaginably* "Roki Sasaki - Perfect Game", the box contained an 18 card base...
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