Sunday, December 9, 2018

Card Of The Week December 9

Hisashi Iwakuma is returning to Japan after seven years of playing in MLB with the Seattle Mariners (although he missed much of the past two seasons due to injuries).  It was up in the air for a while what team he would sign with but it was announced last week he'd be joining the Yomiuri Giants.  He's 30 wins away from the 200 win milestone and Yomiuri might provide him the best path to reach it (although I don't have any insight into his decision making process or what his other options were).

Here's a Jersey card of Iwakuma from the 2011 Touch The Game set from BBM (#M11) - 2011 was the last year he played in Japan and the last year BBM issued the Touch The Game set:


2 comments:

SumoMenkoMan said...

Is that embedded in the card or "glued" on top of it? Glad to see him return.

NPB Card Guy said...

It's embedded. The card's a little thicker than normal.