2014 Hawks "Special Baseball Cards"

Some of the other cards Ryan had picked up for me were some 2014 team issued cards for the Hawks.  Now I had previously seen cards from two other 2014 Hawks sets but these did not appear to be related to the other sets.  I saw these in two different Yahoo! Japan Auctions and asked Ryan to pick them up.  The two auctions had nine cards in all but only four unique cards - I suggested to Ryan that he keep the doubles and he not only took me up on the offer, he beat me to doing a post about it by about six weeks!

The four unique cards are for Kenta Imamiya, Nobuhiro Matsuda, Seiichi Uchiyama and Yuki Yanagita.  Here's the front and back of the Yanagita card (since Ryan showed the front and back of the other three cards):

The breakdown of the nine cards was three Matsuda's, three Uchiyama's two Imamiya's and one Yanagita.

Ryan thinks that the cards were distributed in packs of three as one of the auctions included three cards in a red pack:

I'd be curious if these were some sort of tie-in with the Hawks alternate red uniforms from that season - especially since the all four players are wearing that jersey.