Card Of The Week July 4

Deanna Rubin recently went to Niigata and, among other things, went to a street that is populated by statues of characters from the baseball manga Abu-san and Dokaben. She mentions that the Hawks have retired uniform number 90 in honor of Yasutake Kageura, the main character from Abu-san.

I just want to point out here that Kageura even had a baseball card in the 1998 BBM Hawks set (#74):