A week ago
the Diamond King issued
a challenge to bloggers to do a post featuring an A to Z list of their favorite players. I decided to take a shot at this with NPB players and was able to get a list together although some letters were much more difficult than others - either there weren't many NPB players whose name started with that letter or there were several players I liked a lot with that letter. What I probably should have done is picked a player whose name started with each hiragana character but I wasn't prepared to that much work yet. Maybe later.
Anyway, here's my list. I don't think anyone with a last name starting with "Q" or "X" has ever played in NPB or if they have, I don't have cards for them.
A - Koji Akiyama
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| 1991 BBM Nippon Series #S58 |
B - Wladimir Balentien
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| 2013 BBM Swallows #S61 |
C - Koji Chikamoto
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| 2020 BBM Tigers #T58 |
D - Yu Darvish
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| 2005 Konami Baseball Heroes New Black Edition #C05B051 |
E - Yutaka Enatsu
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| 2003 BBM Fighters #107 |
F - Atsuya Furuta
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| 1998 BBM Diamond Heroes "Hit Leader" #H1 |
G - Sosuke Genda
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| 2017 BBM Fusion #067 |
H - Isao Harimoto
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| 1967 Kabaya-Leaf #409 |
I - Atsunori Inaba
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| 2019 Calbee Samurai Japan #SJ-01 |
J - Kenji Johjima
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| 2001 Upper Deck #146 |
K - Hiromitsu Kadota
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| 1985 Calbee #129 |
L - Lee Dae-Ho
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| 2012 Calbee #024 |
M - Masato Morishita
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| 2019 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes Japanese Collegiate National Team #JC-MM |
N - Takeya Nakamura
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| 2019 Epoch One #401 |
O - Hiromitsu Ochiai
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| 2011 BBM All Stars #A36 |
P - Roberto Petagine
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| 1999 Calbee #230 |
R - Tuffy Rhodes
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| 2001 BBM Nippon Series #S55 |
S - Hayato Sakamoto
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| 2010 Georgia Coffee #002 |
T - Motonobu Tanishige
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| 2005 Dragons Official Card |
U - Seiichi Uchikawa
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| 2014 Calbee #C-6 |
V - Dayan Viciedo
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| 2016 Epoch Record Breakers #18 |
W - Tsutomu Wakamatsu
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| 1977 Yamakatsu JY3 |
Y - Yuki Yanagita
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| 2015 Calbee #ES-13 |
Z - Julio Zuleta
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| 2006 BBM Hawks #H052 |
If I were to do this list again, it might not come out the same way. Some of the players who I narrowly decided against include Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima, Shohei Ohtani, Ichiro Suzuki, Shogo Akiyama, Tetsuto Yamada, Yutaka Fukumoto, Hisashi Yamada, Masahiro Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Kiyohara, Kimiyasu Kudoh and Masahiro Tanaka.
5 comments:
That Tuffy Rhodes card is brilliant. Thanks for sharing!
So many cool cards. My top 3 would be:
#1: Tsutomu Wakamatsu
#2: Tuffy Rhodes
#3: Seiichi Uchikawa
Totally agree on the Tuffy Rhodes card... sweet. Thanks for doing this!
Out of the two Tuffys in that set, somehow I don't have either. I've seen that same photo on a either a phone card or rail pass.
@Tom, Fuji, Diamond King - thanks! One of the attractions about doing this post was getting to show off some of my favorite cards. One thing cool about that Rhodes card is the cameo appearance by another player on my list - Atsuya Furuta.
@Jason - Sorry, not trying to rub it in that I have the set. In fairness, I did buy it when it was originally released back in December of 2001.
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