KBO 40 Legend

As part of the KBO's 40th Anniversary celebration the league has announced the "40 Legends" team, a ranking of the 40 greatest players in KBO history.  The list was compiled by a combination of an expert panel and fan voting.  Only retired players were considered so guys like Lee Dae-ho and Oh Seung-hwan do not appear.

I thought it might be interesting to show off cards of all 40 players but I discovered I had a problem - I only have cards of 3233 of the players.  Worse, for two of those 3233 players I only have Japanese cards, not Korean ones (by my count there are 1011 players on the list who played in Japan as well as the KBO).  But I still thought it'd be worth doing so here goes.  (UPDATE - realized I actually did have cards of Lee Sang-Hoon after all.)

One note before I begin - I'm using the list that Dan Kurtz (@MyKBO) tweeted out the other day which has the players ranked in order - the list in the article I refer above has them in a different order.  I've listed the players I don't have cards for as well so you'll see eight names that don't have cards after them.

1. Sun Dong-Yeol

1996 BBM #108

2. Choi Dong-won

3. Lee Jong-beom

1994 Teleca #16

4. Lee Seung-yuop

1999 Teleca World Sports Cards Show Promo

5. Song Jin-woo

1999 Teleca Premium #78

6. Jang Hyo-jo

7. Yang Jun-hyuk

2000 Teleca #145

8. Koo Dae-sung

1999 Teleca #151

9. Lee Kang-cheol

1999 Teleca #206

10. Jang Jong-hoon

2000 Teleca #86

11. Park Chul-soon

1994 Teleca #47

12. Lee Man-soo

1994 Teleca #40

13. Chung Min-chul

14. Kim Tae-kyun

2014 Superstar Baseball Season Three #SBC03-081-AS

15. Park Yong-taik

2018 SCC KBO Collection #SCCR-01/142

16. Kim Yong-soo

1994 Teleca LG Twins #41

17. Park Jae-hong

2000 Teleca #121

18. Jung Min-tae

1994 Teleca #71

19, Lee Byung-gyu

2014 Superstar Baseball Season One #SBC01-030

20. Kim Si-jin

21. Lim Chang-yong

2014-15 Superstar Baseball Blue Edition #SBCBE-107-AS

22. Kim Ki-tae

2000 Teleca #67

23. Park, Kyung-Oan

1999 Teleca #187

24. Baek In-cheon (Jinten Haku)

1967 Kabaya-Leaf #408

25. Kim Sung-han

26. Cho, Kye-hyun

2000 Teleca #2

27. Lee Sang-hoon

1994 Teleca LG Twins #47

28. Han, Dae-hwa

1994 Teleca LG Twins #9

29. Kim, Dong-joo

2010 KBO Game Set #AD-002

30. Shim, Jung-Soo

1999 Teleca Premium #15

31. Kim Jae-bak

32. Park, Jung-tae

1999 Teleca #50

33. Dustin Nippert

2016 Vittum Foreign Attack #3

34. Jeon, Jun-ho

1999 Teleca "Diamond Kings 98" #DK-6

35. Bae, Young-soo

2018 Hanwha Eagles Calendar Cards

36. Hong, Sung-heon

2016 Superstar Baseball Diamond Winners PA02-DO002

37. Lee, Soon-cheol

38. Jung, Keun-woo

2018 SCC KBO Collection #SCCR-01/185

39. Park, Jin-man

1999 Teleca Premium #1

40. Tyrone Woods

2000 Teleca #18