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Trying To Make Sense Of The 2011 BBM GPBL Cards
I had done a post a few weeks back about some cards from the late Japan Women's Baseball League (JWBL) that I had gotten from Ryan. After Jason asked some questions about the cards I decided to dive...
View ArticleA Flagship, Three Team Sets and an OB OB-LG Set
Time once again to get caught up on the most recently announced sets (as well as one that came out a few months ago)...- Epoch's annual flagship set NPB will be released on June 17th. The base set...
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Card Of The Week May 7
Going into last week, pitcher Oh Seung-hwan of the Samsung Lions had appeared in 979 games in his career that stretched all the way back to 2005. All of those appearances - 620 in KBO with Samsung,...
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Recent Acquisitions From Mercari
I received my latest shipment of baseball cards from ZenMarket today which included my Calbee Series One and BBM 1st Version sets. I'll be writing about those later in the week but I wanted to do a...
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Classic Calbees and More From COMC
After picking up some mid-70's Calbees at decent prices on COMC a few months back, I decided to take another look and came up with a few more good ones to pick up. Here's two from the 1973/74...
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2023 Calbee Series One
I got my copy of Calbee's Series One set for this year earlier this week. It's an 82 card base set split between 60 "regular" player cards (5 per team), 18 "Title Holder" cards and four checklist...
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Card Of The Week May 14
Shoki Murakami of the Tigers has had a pretty good season so far. He threw seven perfect innings in his first start of the year back on April 12th before being pulled for a pinch hitter in a...
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Topps 2023 NPB Set Preview - Are They Serious?
Do you remember a little over a month ago when I first reported that Topps would be releasing the 2023 version of their NPB set in mid-May? I was guardedly optimistic about the set because it looked...
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RIP Shoichi Busujima
Sad news out of Tokyo this week - former Toei Flyers outfielder Shoichi Busujima has passed away from prostate cancer. He was 87 years old.Busujima signed with the Flyers as a third baseman in 1954...
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RIP Futoshi Nakanishi
The news broke today that Hall Of Famer Futoshi Nakanishi passed away from heart failure on May 11th. He was 90 years old.  Nakanishi was born in Takamatsu in Kagawa prefecture on Shikoku, the...
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Card Of The Week May 21
I try not to celebrate arbitrary milestones of this blog but I couldn't help but note that this is the 800th "Card Of The Week" post. I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to start doing them in the...
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2023 BBM 1st Version Set
2023 BBM 1st Version Set SummarySize:Â 372 cards numbered 1-336, CM01-CM36Cards Per Team:Â Â 28 (team card, manager + 26 players)Team Card Theme:Â Â Spring TrainingNumber Of Leader Cards:Â Â N/AChecklists:...
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Five For Five
I was on Ebay recently and I noticed something odd about some Epoch NPB cards of Masataka Yoshida that someone had for sale. Let me show every Yoshida card from the NPB sets - there's only five as...
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Lars And The Real Story
 2023 Topps Now WBC Champs #WBCJPN-2A couple weeks ago a commentator suggested during a Chunichi Dragons game that the Dragons needed to go out and sign Lars Nootbaar to a contract. This got picked up...
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Card Of The Week May 28
With Muentaka Murakami and Chusei Mannami both homering today there's now a six-way tie for the NPB lead in home runs. Murakami, Mannami, Shugo Maki, Toshiro Miyazaki, Kazuma Okamoto and Yutaro...
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2023 Topps Now WBC Cards
Back in March, I had a kind of difficult decision to make. I love the World Baseball Classic and I always try to get all the baseball cards associated with it. But for both the 2017 and 2023...
View ArticleSummer Sets
Quick post to catch up on some recently announced sets...- BBM's 2nd Version set, the second of their three "flagship" sets, will be out in early August. The set looks like it breaks down the way...
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Card Of The Week June 4
Knuckleballer Eri Yoshida was in the news recently as she has reportedly signed to play in the independent Empire League in upstate New York. I'm not sure what team she'll be playing for as the linked...
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Card Of The Week June 11
Sorry for the lack of posts lately but I've been on vacation for the last week and a half. When I'm away from home I like to do the "Card Of The Week" posts ahead of time which obviously makes them...
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RIP Yoshinobu Uemura
Former Mainichi/Daimai Orions pitcher, long time coach and one time Nippon-Ham Fighters manager Yoshinobu Uemura passed away at the age of 88 a few weeks ago (just after I went on vacation). Uemura...
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