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2022 Calbee Series Three
Calbee's third "set" of the year - Series Three - was released about six weeks ago now and I got my copy in the mail with the other sets I've been writing about lately about two weeks ago. As you...
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2022 NPB Draft
NPB held its annual draft today and as usual I took a look to see who already had baseball cards. There still haven't been any collegiate cards published in Japan that I know about since BBM's final...
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Card Of The Week October 23
Having another busy weekend and it'll continue into the first half of the week so I'm just going to show off a card of Kazuhiro Kiyohara that I picked up recently. I'm not much of a fan of BBM's "high...
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2022 Topps NPB Set
Sorry for the lapse in posts for the last week - I was away from home part of the time and recovering from being away the rest of the time. I've got two more sets that I got a few weeks back to write...
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Card Of The Week October 30
The 2022 Nippon Series wrapped up today and the Orix Buffaloes defeated the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5-4 to win the Series 4 games to 2. It was the first title for the franchise since 1996 when they were...
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2022 BBM Hawks History 1938-2022
BBM issued the latest in their "History" series of OB team sets in late September. This one was for the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks and is officially titled "Hawks History 1938-2022". This is the eighth...
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Card Of The Week November 6
Samurai Japan is playing a couple of friendly matches against Team Australia this week and they had a couple warm up matches over the weekend. They beat the Fighters yesterday 5-4 in a game in which...
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Calbee 50th Anniversary Book
I feel like 2022 has been a very disappointing year for Calbee. Each of their three Series for the year have been pretty lackluster and they really didn't do anything all that interesting to celebrate...
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RIP Choji Murata
Hall Of Fame pitcher Choji Murata passed away yesterday from carbon monoxide poisoning following a fire at his home. The 72 year old Murata, who spent his entire 23 year career with the Tokyo/Lotte...
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Card Of The Week November 13
The 2022 Korean Series wrapped up last Tuesday with the SSG Landers defeating the Kiwoom Heroes 4-3 to win the Series 4 games to 2. 40 year old Kim Kang-min was named MVP of the Series despite not...
View ArticleLast Of The 2022 Sets
It's been a few weeks since the last time I listed all the newly announced sets so let's get caught up, shall we?- Epoch's latest ultra high-end active/OB player "Stars & Legends" team set is for...
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Japanese Players In the Australian Baseball League (And Other Winter Leagues)
The 2022-23 season of the Australian Baseball League kicked off this past weekend and for the first time in three years a couple NPB teams have sent players down under for some more experience. The...
View Article2022 Topps Now Samurai Japan Cards
I mentioned that Topps was issuing Topps Now cards for Samurai Japan's games from earlier this month in a post the other day and I even did an update to that post two days ago about it. But there's...
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Card Of The Week November 20
I've picked up several new Seiya Suzuki cards lately, mostly insert cards but there's a couple that are from sets I didn't buy. I think this card might be my favorite of the these - it's from the...
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History Of Calbee Part 7 - 2004 To 2009
As so often happens when I tackle a series of posts like this, the Calbee History posts are taking me longer than I expected. I was hoping to be doing one of these a month but it's been over a month...
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2022 Award Winners
NPB announced most of their major awards earlier this week. For the second straight year the league MVPs were Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Orix Buffaloes and Munetaka Murakami of the Tokyo Yakult...
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Card Of The Week November 27
I mentioned in yesterday's post that Yoshinobu Mizukami of the Lions was the Pacific League's Rookie Of The Year this year. Mizukami was originally drafted by the Lions two years ago as an ikusei or...
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Luxury And Chrome
Epoch released their "NPB Luxury Collection" the other day. My first impression of it was that it was Epoch's version of Topps Chrome - basically an ugly parallel version of their flagship set,...
View ArticleReally The Last 2022 Sets
I really thought when I did the post a few weeks ago on recently announced sets that I had covered the final sets that were going to be released in 2022. It turns out that I was wrong and there have...
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Card Of The Week December 4
I picked up a Tsutomu Wakamatsu card from the 1980 JY12 set recently. I've been cutting back a lot on vintage cards this year but I liked his pose on the card:It reminds me a lot of Wakamatsu's card...
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