Tuesday, October 25, 2011

News And Notes

A couple of things I've been meaning to get to...

- BBM has announced this year's Rookie Edition Premium set.  It's a 48 card box set featuring 36 "regular" cards (three rookies for each team) plus 12 "subset" cards (one for each team).  Each box set also contains two "premium" cards - possible memorabilia, autograph, photo or film cards.  The set will be out in late October.

- Discount Niki and AmiAmi have had listings for a couple forthcoming BBM box sets - one features young Carp players and the other (I think) is for Tigers pitcher Kyuji Fujikawa.  There also looks like there's a box set coming out for Shinjiro Hiyama of the Tigers from a company called Movic.

- A couple of weeks ago, Jason told me about a really cool Japanese baseball card blog that he'd come across while looking for the 1994 Chiba Lotte Marines menko set.  It's in Japanese, but the guy posts a lot of scans of old menko and bromide cards (as well as a lot of vintage bobbleheads) so its worth checking out even if (like me) you can't speak the language.  (I have to say that I really haven't explored the Japanese language baseball card blogs much - it would probably be a great source of information.)  Anyway, I'm adding the blog to the list of links on the right.

3 comments:

Fuji said...

Damn... wish I could read Japanese. I'd love to order some of these sets.

NPB Card Guy said...

Try AmiAmi and Rakuten Global Market. They're both in English. I think AmiAmi is already sold out of the Rookie Edition Premium and the Fujikawa sets though.

Fuji said...

Thanks... I'll check both of those sites out right now.