Tanishige was drafted out of high school by the then Yokohama Taiyo Whales in the fall of 1988. He had already spent parts of two seasons with the ichi-gun Whales before BBM published its first set in 1991. He left Yokohama as a free agent following the 2001 season and landed with the Chunichi Dragons where he's been ever since. He became player-manager last season and broke Katsuya Nomura's record for most games played in in Japan back in early August. This is likely his final season as a player so his streak will be broken next season.
With a little help from Ryan I've managed to pick up all 39 of Tanishige's flagship cards:
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| 1991 BBM #200 |
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| 1992 BBM #93 |
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| 1993 BBM #189 |
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| 1994 BBM #126 |
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| 1995 BBM #250 |
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| 1996 BBM #131 |
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| 1997 BBM #229 |
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| 1998 BBM #69 |
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| 1999 BBM #52 |
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| 2000 BBM #210 |
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| 2001 BBM #85 |
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| 2002 BBM 1st Version #131 |
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| 2002 BBM 2nd Version #574 |
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| 2003 BBM 1st Version #76 (Black Signature Parallel) |
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| 2003 BBM 2nd Version #510 |
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| 2004 BBM 1st Version #231 |
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| 2004 BBM 2nd Version #676 |
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| 2005 BBM 1st Version #262 |
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| 2005 BBM 2nd Version #643 |
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| 2006 BBM 1st Version #266 |
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| 2006 BBM 2nd Version #634 |
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| 2007 BBM 1st Version #232 |
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| 2007 BBM 2nd Version #599 |
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| 2008 BBM 1st Version #051 |
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| 2008 BBM 2nd Version #558 |
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| 2009 BBM 1st Version #303 |
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| 2009 BBM 2nd Version #681 |
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| 2010 BBM 1st Version #053 |
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| 2010 BBM 2nd Version #536 |
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| 2011 BBM 1st Version #173 |
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| 2011 BBM 2nd Version #571 |
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| 2012 BBM 1st Version #172 |
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| 2012 BBM 2nd Version #559 |
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| 2013 BBM 1st Version #038 |
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| 2013 BBM 2nd Version #473 |
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| 2014 BBM 1st Version #244 |
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| 2014 BBM 2nd Version #607 |
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| 2015 BBM 1st Version #244 |
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| 2015 BBM 2nd Version #535 |
4 comments:
Ever since you mentioned this to me I've been considering putting together a collection of all of these cards. I'm guessing he'll stay manager, right? Which means he could also continue to appear in both sets as manager for quite some time. I wonder how long this can actually continue...
If he stays on as manager, he'll be in next year's 1st Version set but typically managers aren't in 2nd Version (I don't think they've been included since the 2005 edition) so the streak will end there.
BBM could put managers in just to keep this up for even longer. Maybe as the team checklist cards instead of those mascots.
Anything other than the mascots would be good...
Masahiro Yamamoto has a similar streak going where he's appeared in "a" flagship set all 25 years. There's a number of years when he is in either the 1st Version or the 2nd Version set but not both. I'm missing a couple of his pre-2001 cards, otherwise I could do a similar post for him.
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