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Current And Former NPB Players On 2023 World Baseball Classic Rosters
I want to wrap up my quick little series on the 2023 WBC rosters with a post about current and former NPB players on teams OTHER than Japan and Korea. Actually just Japan because for the first time in...
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Magazine Cards From Ryan
Back to the cards I got from Ryan a couple weeks ago...Ryan tracked down a number of the "appendix" cards I was looking. These are cards that were given away with various magazines that Baseball...
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Topps WBC Cards
Just a quick note to mention that Topps has announced some plans for World Baseball Classic cards for this year. They've already rolled out the first Topps Now WBC cards. Each card is $9.99 on Topps'...
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2022 BBM Icons - Rough Diamond
BBM has put out a little box set called "Icons" every March since 2013. Basically it's an excuse for them to include extra cards of the top draft picks as well as the first cards of players who...
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Random Cards from Ryan
I wanted to pretty much wrap up my posts about the latest package I got from Ryan with one just showing off some random cards that he sent me.I've mentioned before that I'm down to only needing one...
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Ichiro Animated
Now that I've got all nine of the Ichiro puzzle/sequence cards from the 1995 BBM set, I can do an animated gif for him similar to the ones I did for the other four players who had puzzle/sequence cards...
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2023 BBM Munetaka Murakami Shin-Ka Set
Last month BBM put out a box set called "Munetaka Murakami Shin-Ka" to commemorate his historic season last year. If you've been watching the World Baseball Classic the past few days you'll be...
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Card Of The Week March 12
Korea has been a bit of a disappointment in the World Baseball Classic so far, having unexpectedly lost to Australia on Thursday and getting blown out by Japan on Friday but there's been one minor...
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2023 BBM Rookie Edition
The 2023 edition of BBM's Rookie Edition set was released a few weeks back. This is BBM's annual draft pick set which features all the players selected (and signed) in last fall's draft. The base set...
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RIP Roberto "Chico" Barbon
Sad news out of Kansai this week - the Buffaloes announced that Roberto "Chico" Barbon passed away last Sunday, one day before his 90th birthday. The Cuban-born Barbon was the first Latin American...
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History Of Calbee Part 11 - Wrappers And Bags
I want to finish up my series on Calbee's history with a post about the pack wrappers and chip bags. I'm going to limit this to just items I have in my collection - for more information check out this...
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Card Of The Week March 19
It's kind of funny how things happen sometimes. I'd been looking for Yuki Yanagita's rookie card from the 2011 BBM Hawks set for a while and was having no luck tracking one down. I'd only seen one up...
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Showing Off Some Vintage Calbees
I discovered about a month ago that COMC had a bunch of mid-70's Calbees at very reasonable prices. I've really been cutting back on vintage cards lately but I couldn't resist picking some up. I...
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Thought I'd do a quick post on some new sets that have been announced lately plus give an update on Calbee's Series One set.- First the update:Â Calbee released the checklist for their Series One set...
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Card Of The Week March 26
When Topps put out their NPB Bowman set back in December, I was intrigued that one of the inserts was "Bowman In 3D". There really haven't been a lot of lenticular cards in Japan so I happily took...
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2022 BBM Team Sets
As usual the bulk of that big package I got from Ryan recently consisted of the twelve "comprehensive" team sets from BBM for last year and as usual it's taken me about a month to get them all inputted...
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Upcoming Milestones
With the first official game of the 2023 NPB season less than 36 hours away, I thought I'd revisit a topic I last touched on two years ago - which players are approaching the milestones that would put...
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Play Ball (2023)
I'm continuing my Opening Day tradition of doing a post showing a baseball card from the last year that each of the 12 NPB teams won the Nippon Series which was inspired by (or stolen from)Â the series...
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Oldest BBM Set With An Active NPB Player - 2023 Edition
I wanted to do a quick post for my OTHER Opening Day tradition - identifying which is the oldest BBM set that contains a card of an active NPB player. With the retirement of Kosuke Fukudome, the last...
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Card Of The Week - April 2
Lions pitcher Kaima Taira has been dynamite out of the bullpen the last few seasons but over the winter he told the team he wanted to become a starter. The Lions agreed and he made the first start of...
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