Monday, April 20, 2020

Shukan Baseballs From Amazon

Got a package from Amazon Japan today.  Among other things I picked up the Shukan (Weekly) Baseball issues from the last two years that included promo cards for BBM's 1st Version set. 

Here's the cover of the issue from last April and the two cards the magazine contained:




And this year's issue (which I think was published just last week - I placed the order on Wednesday) and the two cards it contained:




So basically I got promo cards of three of the hot rookies for the last two years plus Daisuke Matsuzaka (who was the hot rookie of 1999).  It's kind of funny - Matsuzaka had already spent a full season in NPB before the oldest of the other three players had been born (Neo was born April 19th, 2000).  And as a bonus, the issue from this year has another hot rookie - Roki Sasaki - on the cover.

2 comments:

Sean said...

Its kind of hard to believe that there are already pro ball players who were born in the 21st century. And that Daisuke Matsuzaka is now old.

Cool magazines and cards!

NPB Card Guy said...

My youngest daughter was born in 1998. It's made me feel very old that there are professional baseball players younger than her.