Sunday, April 26, 2020

Run The Series - BBM Premium Malts

The Suntory Brewery has sponsored an old timers game called the "Dream Match" almost every year since 1995This year's game was supposed to have taken place last Monday but obviously was cancelled due to the on-going pandemic.  BBM issued box sets commemorating three of the games - 2009, 2010 and 2012 (there was no game in 2011 - I suspect this was due to the Tohoku Earthquake).  I thought I'd due a post that was a round up of this series of sets - partly because Dan sent me the 2012 set a month or so ago.

The 2009 base set contained 51 cards, the 2010 set contained 54 cards and the 2012 set had 49 cards.  Each card represented one player from the game as there were no subsets.  As is standard for BBM, each box included a bonus autograph or memorabilia card and as is standard for me, I didn't get any sets that had the bonus card (the set Dan sent me actually came from George originally who pulled an Isao Harimoto auto from his unopened set).

There are 77 different players who appear at least in at least one of these sets.  31 of those 77 appear in all three sets.  The players run the gamut from very famous (there are five Hall Of Famers and six Meikyukai members) to extremely obscure (Tatsuya Shiokawa) with a lot of guys falling in between.  There's only one foreign player - Randy Bass.  The oldest players are Eiji Bando and Harimoto while the youngest player was Shiokawa.  Here's a list of all the players who appear in the sets:

Player DOB 2009 2010 2012 Hall Of Fame Meikyukai
Awano, Hideyuki 1964-07-28 x x
Bando, Eiji 1940-04-15 x x x
Bass, Randy 1954-03-13 x x x
Egawa, Suguru 1955-05-25 x
Enatsu, Yutaka 1948-05-15 x
Endo, Kazuhiko 1955-04-19 x
Gotoh, Koji 1969-05-14 x
Hamanaka, Osamu 1978-07-09 x
Harimoto, Isao 1940-06-19 x x x 1990 x
Hashimoto, Kiyoshi 1969-05-22 x x x
Hata, Shinji 1962-07-29 x x
Hatsushiba, Kiyoshi 1967-02-26 x x x
Higashio, Osamu 1950-05-18 x x x 2010 x
Hikono, Toshikatsu 1964-10-12 x
Hirosawa, Katsumi 1962-04-10 x x
Ikeda, Chikafusa 1959-05-17 x
Ikegaya, Kojiro 1952-06-28 x x x
Ikeyama, Takahiro 1965-12-17 x
Imanaka, Shinji 1971-03-06 x
Ishige, Hiromichi 1956-09-22 x x x
Ishii, Hiroo 1964-06-21 x x
Ishii, Masahiro 1960-09-04 x x
Itoh, Tsutomu 1962-08-29 x 2017
Iwata, Toru 1967-02-12 x
Kakefu, Masayuki 1955-05-09 x x
Kanemura, Satoru 1976-04-19 x
Kanemura, Yoshiaki 1963-08-27 x x x
Kawamata, Yonetoshi 1960-08-04 x x
Kawatoh, Kozo 1949-07-05 x x x
Kobayakawa, Takehiko 1961-11-15 x
Kohda, Isao 1965-05-29 x
Kohno, Hirofumi 1962-04-28 x
Komada, Norihiro 1962-09-14 x x x
Kubo, Fumio 1962-12-03 x x x
Kuwata, Masumi 1968-04-01 x x x
Makihara, Hiromi 1963-08-11 x x x
Matsumoto, Tadashi 1954-08-08 x x x
Miyamoto, Kazutomo 1964-02-13 x x x
Mizuno, Katsuhito 1965-09-03 x x x
Motoki, Daisuke 1971-12-30 x x
Naitoh, Naoyuki "Gyaos" 1968-07-24 x
Nakahama, Hiroyuki 1978-04-10 x
Nishioka, Yoshihiro 1961-06-28 x
Nishizaki, Yukihiro 1964-04-13 x x x
Nomura, Hiroki 1969-06-30 x
Nomura, Kenjiro 1966-09-19 x x
Ohno, Yutaka 1955-08-30 x 2013
Ohsawa, Keiji 1932-03-14 x x
Ohtsuka, Koji 1967-08-26 x x x
Ohya, Akihiko 1947-12-20 x x
Okada, Akinobu 1957-11-25 x
Onoue, Akira 1959-04-22 x
Sadaoka, Shoji 1956-01-29 x x x
Saitoh, Akio 1955-02-23 x x x
Sano, Motokuni 1958-03-06 x x x
Sano, Shigeki 1968-04-30 x x x
Sasaoka, Shinji 1967-08-26 x x x
Satoh, Hiroshi 1962-06-09 x x x
Satoh, Kazuhiro "Punch" 1964-12-03 x x x
Shiokawa, Tatsuya 1983-03-15 x
Shoji, Tomohisa 1953-05-30 x x x
Takagi, Yutaka 1957-10-22 x x
Takahashi, Masahiro 1964-07-10 x x x
Takashiro, Nobuhiro 1954-05-27 x
Takeda, Kazuhiro 1965-06-22 x
Tanaka, Yukio 1967-12-14 x x
Tao, Yasushi 1954-01-08 x x x
Tomashino, Kenji 1966-10-11 x x x
Wakana, Yoshiharu 1953-12-05 x x x
Yamakura, Kazuhiro 1955-09-02 x
Yamamoto, Kazunori 1957-10-18 x
Yamamoto, Koji (1946) 1946-10-25 x x x 2008 x
Yamamoto, Koji (1951) 1951-12-25 x
Yashiki, Kaname 1959-06-11 x x x
Yoda, Tsuyoshi 1965-12-04 x
Yojoh, Minoru 1966-09-27 x
Yoshimura, Sadaaki 1963-04-27 x

Here are two sample cards from each set:

09 BBM The Premium Malts #10

09 BBM The Premium Malts #45

2010 BBM The Premium Malts #04

2010 BBM The Premium Malts #53

2012 BBM The Premium Malts #25

2012 BBM The Premium Malts #01
These are kind of fun little sets although I'm not sure I've really missed BBM continuing to do them.  Part of the problem I have with the sets is that the same players appear over and over.  I suspect there's been enough turnover in the players who appear in the games since 2012 that a new set would be more interesting.  Some of the players who appeared in last year's game include Atsuya Furuta, Akinori Iwamura, Tadashi Settsu, Yoshinobu Takahashi and Kei Igawa - it might be fun to see what they look like now that they've been retired for awhile.

Thanks to George and Dan for getting me the 2012 set.

1 comment:

Dan Skrezyna said...

I uploaded the set here: https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/113103/2012-BBM-Suntory-Dream-Match