tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74806583775031637492024-03-18T21:00:22.966-04:00Japanese Baseball CardsAn English Guide To Baseball Cards From JapanNPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.comBlogger2949125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-37175668485098694072024-03-18T21:00:00.000-04:002024-03-18T21:00:19.639-04:002023 BBM Team Sets<p>I'm going to wrap up my posts about the cards I got from <a href="http://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> last month in the traditional manner: writing about BBM's team sets. A large fraction of all the cards he sent me were the twelve "comprehensive" team sets from last season. A "comprehensive" team set is one that has all the players on the team's 70 man roster at the time it was printed (which is usually less than 70 players). BBM issued these sets between April and July of last year.</p><p>Each set had a base set of 81 cards which included 62 to 69 "regular" cards featuring the players on the 70 man roster along with the team's manager. Each set also had a single card dedicated to its mascot or mascots and then the remainder of the set was made up of three to five subsets containing one to six cards. Some of the mascot cards double as a checklist for the set. Here's the break down for each set:</p><style type="text/css">
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<th class="tg-0lax">Team</th>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Chiba Lotte Marines</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">68</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Spark (4), Hot Topic (5), Gifted (3)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Chunichi Dragons</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">65</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Top Prospects (3), Over The Top (6), Pride & Passion (6)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Fukuoka Softbank Hawks</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">68</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Newcomer (4), Dominators (4), Go For It (4)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Hanshin Tigers</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">69</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Newcomer (4), All My Heart (3), Smash & Crash (4)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Hiroshima Toyo Carp</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">68</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Geneology of Uniform Numbers (3), Special Delivery (4), Now Or Never (5)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">67</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Top Prospects (3), Polar Star (4), Batter Up (6)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Orix Buffaloes</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">66</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Fireballers (4), Inner Steel (3), Horn Attack (4), Buffaloes Mountains (1), Love Chara (2)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Saitama Seibu Lions</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">67</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Born In 99 (5), Smash Hit (4), Uplift (4)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">68</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">New Dimension (3), Tohoku Roots (4), Daybreak (3), Landmark (2)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Tokyo Yakult Swallows</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">67</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Flagship (4), Take Over (2), Accelerator (3), Stay Tuned (4)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Yokohama DeNA Baystars</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">67</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Mighty Lefty (3), Spring Fever (6), Lock On (2), Enhance (2)</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Yomiuri Giants</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">62</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">1</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Giant Potential (6), Strings Of Giants (6), Changes Of Giants (6)</td>
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There's a total of 802 individual "regular" cards in all of these sets - 790 players and 12 managers. As you might guess, there's a lot of players who show up in the team sets who did not appear in BBM's flagship sets - 1st Version, 2nd Version or Fusion. This includes foreigners like Freddy Galvis, Kyle Keller, Drew Anderson, Robert Corniel, John Gant, Conner Menez, Jacob Nix, Chris Gittens, Nienting Wu and Tyler Austin along with somewhat big named players who maybe in a rough stretch or past their prime like Yasunobu Okugawa, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Naomichi Donoue, Shota Dohbayashi, T-Okada, Yusuke Nomura, and Kazuki Tanaka. Here's a card of a player from each set who was not in any of BBM's flagship sets:<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6iMM9Ik1jKWXccKOUfYBevp600tB6O9YoSr175byYi-46F9pzIO0Kongcmd_2ojpkZbs7I8NIWlqZc0EEBpDBq144C6zc3g9XQNmc9Y5Rze-6t5DoMusDwT84z54Rl_QQfidcRzcNDUhZ0YLXuTO7WTXw9rohwNW-ygfVjBcE2svZkKzvulEkTltTaCxd/s1021/Teams-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6iMM9Ik1jKWXccKOUfYBevp600tB6O9YoSr175byYi-46F9pzIO0Kongcmd_2ojpkZbs7I8NIWlqZc0EEBpDBq144C6zc3g9XQNmc9Y5Rze-6t5DoMusDwT84z54Rl_QQfidcRzcNDUhZ0YLXuTO7WTXw9rohwNW-ygfVjBcE2svZkKzvulEkTltTaCxd/w291-h400/Teams-0001.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Marines #M51</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq0ZEQRqsAExcd4o6Ace0axPmkrlF0RxNXlRbWgVwHBOYaXPfuH0iY6dUz2bz3IetBWnOyeO_YUQojq7bsIwEN7ysad-f12ZZTzmbG9M1VBXFZShZoa29fi241jP3RIqc4YCdH4HNa2Eho7w2vNeGwvUGvjbBhysIu48bIujzzbUapcXyCjX44MI_j11XU/s1021/Teams-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq0ZEQRqsAExcd4o6Ace0axPmkrlF0RxNXlRbWgVwHBOYaXPfuH0iY6dUz2bz3IetBWnOyeO_YUQojq7bsIwEN7ysad-f12ZZTzmbG9M1VBXFZShZoa29fi241jP3RIqc4YCdH4HNa2Eho7w2vNeGwvUGvjbBhysIu48bIujzzbUapcXyCjX44MI_j11XU/w291-h400/Teams-0002.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Dragons #D46</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwLri54c23f15JAl8jkAGPrwHOJ1L7-oLgm9DjEBiTYfTlOQsOjqu-ey_4HCAG8hxan_Ak2NNuZhuQK0bhzpCXmpIjQQeX8cRLzDE-ZvN6b4WXzwl6uO4nlompHi-Z2dX_oOgmKLGaAsRXwWdFnHjo3IF_7lla4hUUHRULavWCDcUMnbr4PFH5mDdttWqP/s1021/Teams-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwLri54c23f15JAl8jkAGPrwHOJ1L7-oLgm9DjEBiTYfTlOQsOjqu-ey_4HCAG8hxan_Ak2NNuZhuQK0bhzpCXmpIjQQeX8cRLzDE-ZvN6b4WXzwl6uO4nlompHi-Z2dX_oOgmKLGaAsRXwWdFnHjo3IF_7lla4hUUHRULavWCDcUMnbr4PFH5mDdttWqP/w291-h400/Teams-0003.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Hawks #H56</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0_pf6btCnb8nbtSRwfwDygiexj7on9oSRHBNxOTCPG4Su5x5NExcGdaL1WUEevZZ8Gb-TPUhl11S7sbxBEV1YV4aUk4nhipWYE1o4NQxwYp3ZHXJWcH4n2m5hSrM6Yjh4R4HWfGEAmtaPK5iP8GS6VWDshRK4oaMH2E8gmEb6hav0X7N9zs905kPiu7Ly/s1021/Teams-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1021" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0_pf6btCnb8nbtSRwfwDygiexj7on9oSRHBNxOTCPG4Su5x5NExcGdaL1WUEevZZ8Gb-TPUhl11S7sbxBEV1YV4aUk4nhipWYE1o4NQxwYp3ZHXJWcH4n2m5hSrM6Yjh4R4HWfGEAmtaPK5iP8GS6VWDshRK4oaMH2E8gmEb6hav0X7N9zs905kPiu7Ly/w400-h291/Teams-0004.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Tigers #T07</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgtRM5wSScoK7d4UeVimh1ybVNgDbZkk9sg1tjkkT93-TExunwzBW5wbbxHIjlfOaHj5TWq8dbE6ltW7YS461M02sr2nUaCUQP8qrYzYPR9L6AA4hCgoSSiU12KFN-WKgDras7GP9cFk6fuGLyi2zAyACPfzHgiItRP_-37Guc7-xckgdWeO6lv309Vqn7/s1021/Teams-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgtRM5wSScoK7d4UeVimh1ybVNgDbZkk9sg1tjkkT93-TExunwzBW5wbbxHIjlfOaHj5TWq8dbE6ltW7YS461M02sr2nUaCUQP8qrYzYPR9L6AA4hCgoSSiU12KFN-WKgDras7GP9cFk6fuGLyi2zAyACPfzHgiItRP_-37Guc7-xckgdWeO6lv309Vqn7/w291-h400/Teams-0005.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Carp #C36</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLr0BSLosaKrrKGRPrID3gPqcQCwJMpcnZGZTe7ECwdNskNbr2nsKkyB_-LXQpyrBifdWMhsWEj8SDzQ7S9q3Hnp6W7mnejMUYr2vNhDF3AILN37uQ1jKN4-0l1QAP1N-hnPfrnH4vI_71G4fC8D00WIwkk6AE91MqGpF6Bjv3nDpPv7SwOcf317YhSIH1/s1021/Teams-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLr0BSLosaKrrKGRPrID3gPqcQCwJMpcnZGZTe7ECwdNskNbr2nsKkyB_-LXQpyrBifdWMhsWEj8SDzQ7S9q3Hnp6W7mnejMUYr2vNhDF3AILN37uQ1jKN4-0l1QAP1N-hnPfrnH4vI_71G4fC8D00WIwkk6AE91MqGpF6Bjv3nDpPv7SwOcf317YhSIH1/w291-h400/Teams-0006.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Fighters #F10</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPnLTONJQaQxIG_LArJ17q4xwKqbeoHFB0yhtoehX3yjgYGEHKBSphsZDy58F3rO4c-Kg7WSX8-qFFpkQRqT7CvyJ0sltWxIaxaHBiYNL1ZUMoKm0-8bdM7iCGv4GOQxxOkQKlTPM9u-HmK85rDDbDqodEiSW48AQzS15gSHrCYIYKGRAEkvfKHh0oVpMM/s1021/Teams-0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPnLTONJQaQxIG_LArJ17q4xwKqbeoHFB0yhtoehX3yjgYGEHKBSphsZDy58F3rO4c-Kg7WSX8-qFFpkQRqT7CvyJ0sltWxIaxaHBiYNL1ZUMoKm0-8bdM7iCGv4GOQxxOkQKlTPM9u-HmK85rDDbDqodEiSW48AQzS15gSHrCYIYKGRAEkvfKHh0oVpMM/w291-h400/Teams-0007.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Buffaloes #B54</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGI7N14ATb0U-ifB5FytT4Tgi7-h7hb-ohCZM3YNRGRxudophfYfopyr8fZnVuWx4IvW0F1SyTH7qnmFNV_v2MBPPZEg9e0JlyvP5MTFU5SOdH5AsKJ7J0EueEnP6GJuDohu27IdUbCNAENqxdAA-XPiaruHKdpwknHfaLN-aYRLGxYMqsU-GE5mRG-hur/s1021/Teams-0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1021" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGI7N14ATb0U-ifB5FytT4Tgi7-h7hb-ohCZM3YNRGRxudophfYfopyr8fZnVuWx4IvW0F1SyTH7qnmFNV_v2MBPPZEg9e0JlyvP5MTFU5SOdH5AsKJ7J0EueEnP6GJuDohu27IdUbCNAENqxdAA-XPiaruHKdpwknHfaLN-aYRLGxYMqsU-GE5mRG-hur/w400-h291/Teams-0008.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Lions #L19</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1r2GjhxZbsh_4aajHlsj-XciH-bhUzeErdXxfxevitB5YbxY3K03fKhibgajYyQYvVUi09r9dYoZSPkfTAW9P_004yAJdLgOSvCwhEsVJNvt2lVtqAER6T4IvTHrVe_5T9L4cMjI_NJnWNRJXeuPLNjmaZ08c1XmtH75_ZZx1TzPvwX0ogNSxC5EpL9lz/s1021/Teams-0009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1r2GjhxZbsh_4aajHlsj-XciH-bhUzeErdXxfxevitB5YbxY3K03fKhibgajYyQYvVUi09r9dYoZSPkfTAW9P_004yAJdLgOSvCwhEsVJNvt2lVtqAER6T4IvTHrVe_5T9L4cMjI_NJnWNRJXeuPLNjmaZ08c1XmtH75_ZZx1TzPvwX0ogNSxC5EpL9lz/w291-h400/Teams-0009.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Eagles #E64</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJvki5nUwhKFmpNQMmruSRN1Io8a3HaXLsAiubLXDXKmXW0Vge59-n5a6nRj3wbVFKDbQq5PsVLKoFzL9N5zHlkyF9feXqh3Z_w2nRx_jKERG1uawZvyKe5N6C5_eAHCXrz2LAxZVCofHUL4BpYUXS0SEoY0rcKN7ah9-HiAZUcTB-pYu9RCKhDNgYaagT/s1021/Teams-0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJvki5nUwhKFmpNQMmruSRN1Io8a3HaXLsAiubLXDXKmXW0Vge59-n5a6nRj3wbVFKDbQq5PsVLKoFzL9N5zHlkyF9feXqh3Z_w2nRx_jKERG1uawZvyKe5N6C5_eAHCXrz2LAxZVCofHUL4BpYUXS0SEoY0rcKN7ah9-HiAZUcTB-pYu9RCKhDNgYaagT/w291-h400/Teams-0010.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Swallows #S08</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf7fdQM1CD4dQ9Uw8MaI5_zkN1ncnY4xahEPAD2sgBSi2wS9lwcy9qwVtbUO2nyXvkjY8spUvtNuXsy-VULOPS7Z5h5z8iEtyVeJVj2h_OXoaKdHcpSAy66i3q8knKS5g0WGrAJYsP74Hb_7C7c5sjRrDqM9TgI23ppoIx5uzR2uNFiEMqz328B3z68s7v/s1021/Teams-0011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf7fdQM1CD4dQ9Uw8MaI5_zkN1ncnY4xahEPAD2sgBSi2wS9lwcy9qwVtbUO2nyXvkjY8spUvtNuXsy-VULOPS7Z5h5z8iEtyVeJVj2h_OXoaKdHcpSAy66i3q8knKS5g0WGrAJYsP74Hb_7C7c5sjRrDqM9TgI23ppoIx5uzR2uNFiEMqz328B3z68s7v/w291-h400/Teams-0011.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Baystars #DB40</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilPwRwi2HtHZlsP1t_ggGOkvf_ipdlkDUdvy2OPbnLuUbR5i5M-C6l6PjkROk9FqoaQdIQHIEUY5g4awVZX-RbCiqemjc0tHxvh4MqLzXqjE5xeYpkKSV529wyvGcvLw0KJLSaCafYrgQ-IKMBXLdg_u_4J4l0-HT5MAwS5hil7mws4QsB6laatxrm496P/s1021/Teams-0012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1021" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilPwRwi2HtHZlsP1t_ggGOkvf_ipdlkDUdvy2OPbnLuUbR5i5M-C6l6PjkROk9FqoaQdIQHIEUY5g4awVZX-RbCiqemjc0tHxvh4MqLzXqjE5xeYpkKSV529wyvGcvLw0KJLSaCafYrgQ-IKMBXLdg_u_4J4l0-HT5MAwS5hil7mws4QsB6laatxrm496P/w400-h291/Teams-0012.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Giants #G27</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-82706349951295027582024-03-17T21:08:00.001-04:002024-03-17T21:08:30.473-04:00Card Of The Week March 17<p>Topps has had an NPB license for three years now* and has issued nine sets over that period of time. Seven of those sets have had an associated insert set featuring current NPB players on cards using an old Topps design. The 2021 NPB and NPB Chrome sets had inserts that used the 1986 design. (with identical cards between the two sets although the Chrome ones had the "chrome" finish) while the 2022 editions of those sets had inserts that used the 1958 design. The 2023 NPB set had an insert set that used a white bordered version of the 2001 design and that year's Bowman NPB set included a 1989 Bowman style insert. Unlike the previous two years, the 2023 NPB Chrome set was not simply an ugly parallel of the NPB set but completely different set using the same format (albeit with an ugly "chrome" finish). The difference carried over to the 2001-style insert set as it not only had different photos than those used in the NPB set but the borders of the cards were the original green. (And just to be complete, the two Japanese Topps offering that did not have "retro" inserts were the 2022 Bowman NPB and 2023 NPB 206 sets.)</p><p><i>*To be completely accurate, <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2021/10/topps-and-npb.html" target="_blank">it's been two years and five months</a></i></p><p>I have the complete "1986" set from the 2021 set but only a handful of cards from the other sets. Well, to be accurate, I have a handful of cards from the other sets OTHER than the 2021 & 2022 Chrome sets since I didn't see any reason to pick up ugly parallels. I realized the other day that I have cards of one particular player in all of these sets. It was completely unintentional although I'm not sorry about it. To be honest, I don't know if there are any other players who have cards in all five (ok, SEVEN) sets. Anyway, here's the cards of this particular player from each set:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTg5e2u5EecQIcbaFbyUy6E9E1PUiNMPKZiDKBLg9BMlZCBC7ubDvvreubpIJNkGRFaf4THShvN6lGi5Y_fwk3RJqAfsX_HQhheOG0txisQfguc6T7Znr02vZJu7ZuKJAMcmqE44TqaxJ9jhiGOieOvtSEFs4B14c5IS4yHa2IpiNy-gfsLp9ztcgMpzK/s1021/Retro-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTg5e2u5EecQIcbaFbyUy6E9E1PUiNMPKZiDKBLg9BMlZCBC7ubDvvreubpIJNkGRFaf4THShvN6lGi5Y_fwk3RJqAfsX_HQhheOG0txisQfguc6T7Znr02vZJu7ZuKJAMcmqE44TqaxJ9jhiGOieOvtSEFs4B14c5IS4yHa2IpiNy-gfsLp9ztcgMpzK/w291-h400/Retro-0001.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2021 Topps NPB #86-MMU</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePNDqlryEnx5te5ppkO0mBOXmqjfOBcwJDEv-ZkqpP93O_XQizLoIk5_fNSW5ksBWAHChg-I7x2-n3LV1e3plQqhc5Pr-FNNB1x_pDAzzlG8JDBqYwQcKJU3E1qFcTdsL4zW7TTpxLy3dTeWtjuqrPzWI0v5T5rtKcEWaR2XxjeXt9zr0ONJ1bAU1FmQX/s1039/Retro-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiePNDqlryEnx5te5ppkO0mBOXmqjfOBcwJDEv-ZkqpP93O_XQizLoIk5_fNSW5ksBWAHChg-I7x2-n3LV1e3plQqhc5Pr-FNNB1x_pDAzzlG8JDBqYwQcKJU3E1qFcTdsL4zW7TTpxLy3dTeWtjuqrPzWI0v5T5rtKcEWaR2XxjeXt9zr0ONJ1bAU1FmQX/w286-h400/Retro-0002.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2022 Topps NPB #58-19</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgJ3sUqu6122RDLOomQsopKvOcOprF60aI1JPd_ZalLcCZ0R-GiFhySDMEWosHwmeyRvd5av-r423CeaIxJznaupKx8_Tvx8IWpt1FcTvn1g09RONsYoZbDCnrX3KJ6Ucr-85q6S7HqEK_VzZCme-wAWBbE3hnpnGMd1N8yzRfnIZdTif5b_C51Mq74XH/s1021/Retro-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgJ3sUqu6122RDLOomQsopKvOcOprF60aI1JPd_ZalLcCZ0R-GiFhySDMEWosHwmeyRvd5av-r423CeaIxJznaupKx8_Tvx8IWpt1FcTvn1g09RONsYoZbDCnrX3KJ6Ucr-85q6S7HqEK_VzZCme-wAWBbE3hnpnGMd1N8yzRfnIZdTif5b_C51Mq74XH/w291-h400/Retro-0003.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps NPB #01-14</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-3RzpQDOlnZVDuXFvTgdGtdVbUDr2FYqM2hrYIjN6wMTbgq6-gvd-08lX3EUjd31JaBuE5Dfk0k9GgP52pFKH1np-nxDBuz3XFjxhdTtM0R33UZI3EISE70hMxxiX29URHWwsX-aSRlkl-ss824PRmGMFyx6Yn-uPCFdNWb3QNDXs1TNGldhWP7akELvn/s1021/Retro-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-3RzpQDOlnZVDuXFvTgdGtdVbUDr2FYqM2hrYIjN6wMTbgq6-gvd-08lX3EUjd31JaBuE5Dfk0k9GgP52pFKH1np-nxDBuz3XFjxhdTtM0R33UZI3EISE70hMxxiX29URHWwsX-aSRlkl-ss824PRmGMFyx6Yn-uPCFdNWb3QNDXs1TNGldhWP7akELvn/w291-h400/Retro-0004.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Bowman NPB #89B-14</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTIk-DWxZM_7LesViqOXCekScjhjJzGOPLlEW6rPHw-mDJc1y_uRXt1CjW6xgCid4AWjBvszm3zv47EbAQbIRFvwnyqRki9RihWyz5DyEA29DRG2r1wjJeRMlnecLfPaZHzBAQ0rnFFbkPkPlyl4rYKfznG268BzLJO5M4v_9HyF-UWa4Em9XNzvN0oTD/s1021/Retro-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqTIk-DWxZM_7LesViqOXCekScjhjJzGOPLlEW6rPHw-mDJc1y_uRXt1CjW6xgCid4AWjBvszm3zv47EbAQbIRFvwnyqRki9RihWyz5DyEA29DRG2r1wjJeRMlnecLfPaZHzBAQ0rnFFbkPkPlyl4rYKfznG268BzLJO5M4v_9HyF-UWa4Em9XNzvN0oTD/w291-h400/Retro-0005.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps NPB Chrome #01-14</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-59787056010012611642024-03-15T20:47:00.002-04:002024-03-15T20:47:44.930-04:002010 SCM Rookie Edition Cards<p>Sports Card Magazine (SCM) #79 was published in January of 2010. It contained ten baseball cards that used the design for the 2010 BBM Rookie Edition set but they weren't promo cards for the set. They were essentially "bonus" cards for the set and were numbered 115 to 124 so they were just after the 114 cards of the set.</p><p>I've been trying to get all ten of these cards for a number of years now and the last four or five that I needed were in the box <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> sent me recently. It's taken me about that long to finally realize that these ten cards are the first half of a two-part celebration on SCM's part of the 20th anniversary of BBM making baseball cards. Let me show the cards first and then I'll explain:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgocWDYo3iu8uD_blICeN7vMXL6PSh0I_iJJaDDcbQubSfLY2XCxnBOnBj7S0FcFBBSUIhuoyB4YLJEuc-P0lg7Y4oKrPkchUdrxQLHh7aoRED0gLjBB6z03XBkQJSw2x1rhUO4C79TMmETQ-Y0JvS421b_Ufo1Y5cweFAVLp2ReRLWJ0ws14Y0Ge4uLqk4/s1021/SCMRE-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgocWDYo3iu8uD_blICeN7vMXL6PSh0I_iJJaDDcbQubSfLY2XCxnBOnBj7S0FcFBBSUIhuoyB4YLJEuc-P0lg7Y4oKrPkchUdrxQLHh7aoRED0gLjBB6z03XBkQJSw2x1rhUO4C79TMmETQ-Y0JvS421b_Ufo1Y5cweFAVLp2ReRLWJ0ws14Y0Ge4uLqk4/w291-h400/SCMRE-0001.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SCM #134/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #115</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq7Z7AGODtazGnpqZMUcYNA7mJC2x8Mwh0obHisqiR4JddZh2SEqyYIqSrCIz8TQLTJT6njK6OpF4ThGg8iWfizWKdh34CU_pYVca9boQ3kbqd0gmLVNRvwgI7F3rY6s__B7pwX5NGLFNykf5JRUC6xLXIrJQ1ryn7zcxzsYlGmhUNQRxkNWGDjT20YKle/s1021/SCMRE-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq7Z7AGODtazGnpqZMUcYNA7mJC2x8Mwh0obHisqiR4JddZh2SEqyYIqSrCIz8TQLTJT6njK6OpF4ThGg8iWfizWKdh34CU_pYVca9boQ3kbqd0gmLVNRvwgI7F3rY6s__B7pwX5NGLFNykf5JRUC6xLXIrJQ1ryn7zcxzsYlGmhUNQRxkNWGDjT20YKle/w291-h400/SCMRE-0002.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SCM #135/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #116</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc8aeZR5jGaPIsb8Rhv8PuyXgKYCkWmaEjrxdOofjG13wbRKzInzmNH1mkXgC98h20ZDnOxpHbs3DeafivUBzxdOZ7IsOuSLuQa7g9PAWLOXMS6GvAMhx-2fgoJJdTm8RubzXk_NT0waaNcZ1awTbqEByVdlODAh8b02ZzC9wlpil9MtD5mq7VLb1lCeM4/s1021/SCMRE-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc8aeZR5jGaPIsb8Rhv8PuyXgKYCkWmaEjrxdOofjG13wbRKzInzmNH1mkXgC98h20ZDnOxpHbs3DeafivUBzxdOZ7IsOuSLuQa7g9PAWLOXMS6GvAMhx-2fgoJJdTm8RubzXk_NT0waaNcZ1awTbqEByVdlODAh8b02ZzC9wlpil9MtD5mq7VLb1lCeM4/w291-h400/SCMRE-0003.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SCM #136/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #117</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYgl7R8Fd1AGJ5jdQPTCIVJAMyWbFzCuM0icaKqZOBNHo7_SXRwPhDC7LOm8Cn7SMF89CKVkxwc9EiC-kYHvr6hAAD2QAHshV0XMh7mXxAn21GTSyKtCHNbqU00z0M-Eu41-x3JbSYcqGRcpXjHqxRYDMgQOe098Iygo299ACl489hiCZ_Jk3lJf3H5mIN/s1021/SCMRE-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYgl7R8Fd1AGJ5jdQPTCIVJAMyWbFzCuM0icaKqZOBNHo7_SXRwPhDC7LOm8Cn7SMF89CKVkxwc9EiC-kYHvr6hAAD2QAHshV0XMh7mXxAn21GTSyKtCHNbqU00z0M-Eu41-x3JbSYcqGRcpXjHqxRYDMgQOe098Iygo299ACl489hiCZ_Jk3lJf3H5mIN/w291-h400/SCMRE-0004.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SCM #137/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #118</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQJJDvozBb4Pv0wgwpVRP9mmwQ_43EFK-GObGSf_YetjKgCdQmseeCZEFmPBvpwnOANi5QeG9WjKXtL1aRPGGtkMX3Sa5qTk9jq6iYereL6CL4BJL_LEuExMhdgW11UEVeuGyomQqM1bjoc-G2rljhNT9DjSsifuq9NRCBGjj-vrStm6N3sqGaUU-FFUp/s1021/SCMRE-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQJJDvozBb4Pv0wgwpVRP9mmwQ_43EFK-GObGSf_YetjKgCdQmseeCZEFmPBvpwnOANi5QeG9WjKXtL1aRPGGtkMX3Sa5qTk9jq6iYereL6CL4BJL_LEuExMhdgW11UEVeuGyomQqM1bjoc-G2rljhNT9DjSsifuq9NRCBGjj-vrStm6N3sqGaUU-FFUp/w291-h400/SCMRE-0005.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SCM #138/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #119</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrOzKPs_2ibH3hR_fOfcVdq34jCmbZjwD45BFcRHqRxpzyj8vRQxn3Lr3KqIROCuBf8zVFU_mn-l1umaU4ENkeI_U6ZC3e3w5WWYJHhyphenhyphenRqfSMBi0CBFly0DMRuUxb4fL0yfsAOjVo53rkWb09eHO2JxnwDu48aSglsUMkJ0hU426qVi2uWnBOe7YkidGgP/s1021/SCMRE-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrOzKPs_2ibH3hR_fOfcVdq34jCmbZjwD45BFcRHqRxpzyj8vRQxn3Lr3KqIROCuBf8zVFU_mn-l1umaU4ENkeI_U6ZC3e3w5WWYJHhyphenhyphenRqfSMBi0CBFly0DMRuUxb4fL0yfsAOjVo53rkWb09eHO2JxnwDu48aSglsUMkJ0hU426qVi2uWnBOe7YkidGgP/w291-h400/SCMRE-0006.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SCM #139/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #120</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsmXpgUxXHjZy27GvUJ9t_oGxsI7ivvQhz__vQg-yY5qX6vuDZO33MKzEvyl5IdC8G667JczeiwApmn9gLQphexvlJVyK9kG4AXbu6NKKhFeEJBwnQ2gjmZPrSye9g79FMdyp9jUNmwPMBy1qxWIrv7sZJHvAxqVl4jOZpcM8r1pqTQRnux895wPkX1ph/s1021/SCMRE-0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsmXpgUxXHjZy27GvUJ9t_oGxsI7ivvQhz__vQg-yY5qX6vuDZO33MKzEvyl5IdC8G667JczeiwApmn9gLQphexvlJVyK9kG4AXbu6NKKhFeEJBwnQ2gjmZPrSye9g79FMdyp9jUNmwPMBy1qxWIrv7sZJHvAxqVl4jOZpcM8r1pqTQRnux895wPkX1ph/w291-h400/SCMRE-0007.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SCM #140/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #121</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp28ZVJQUTm3Qzrtc3NpsD0Uaypot3ernLZ8i_E4lzN_ugYUsug0OLAn24vFrkHyU0lhQegloKwSPLrgFwRW6me1HwFHYaXLbwAOAr6xVBYFDB9X5j-rQoQ4-0mytLTziQL0RXUt_rEqw0SJDc25sFMBIiiEdehjEzW6s335s-3i8kPKSF5su-TQmFa9Mq/s1021/SCMRE-0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp28ZVJQUTm3Qzrtc3NpsD0Uaypot3ernLZ8i_E4lzN_ugYUsug0OLAn24vFrkHyU0lhQegloKwSPLrgFwRW6me1HwFHYaXLbwAOAr6xVBYFDB9X5j-rQoQ4-0mytLTziQL0RXUt_rEqw0SJDc25sFMBIiiEdehjEzW6s335s-3i8kPKSF5su-TQmFa9Mq/w291-h400/SCMRE-0008.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SCM #141/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #122</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDqSDG2hiTfLd820IMp1e6xriwWM-klo-h6pVPYZBcmhJ_LTYFt99n9cds6UkYDEG-d-xBN6VnlnsYlA8xRVKEHJEm0Al17swxdZkXkKspfDM-I73E7l8ATwCvHqVdLmjDAPpE93NfoT4P_crRj7eXQyUC118_gh2TIvi4y3jmXCMSk-zLJn2ALp5vCQ_/s1021/SCMRE-0009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDqSDG2hiTfLd820IMp1e6xriwWM-klo-h6pVPYZBcmhJ_LTYFt99n9cds6UkYDEG-d-xBN6VnlnsYlA8xRVKEHJEm0Al17swxdZkXkKspfDM-I73E7l8ATwCvHqVdLmjDAPpE93NfoT4P_crRj7eXQyUC118_gh2TIvi4y3jmXCMSk-zLJn2ALp5vCQ_/w291-h400/SCMRE-0009.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SCM #142/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #123</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdBYFzjvphwQaTVmdQTwgSRLntQgoMz47jzqVfEy3FCZ4AlS-i7HWCcRt84MV8ukDH8NwVaGCYi5M-sS9FtJdyUVWU9pVufiKGpGANZ_HlG6HdRnJ1lCLeAvjESAOI7RTII1bsws9ixhgG1mmbRti161D3PeYGgDd7i_EjXa6CekY7eb9lBVy4zeYLrvDu/s1021/SCMRE-0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdBYFzjvphwQaTVmdQTwgSRLntQgoMz47jzqVfEy3FCZ4AlS-i7HWCcRt84MV8ukDH8NwVaGCYi5M-sS9FtJdyUVWU9pVufiKGpGANZ_HlG6HdRnJ1lCLeAvjESAOI7RTII1bsws9ixhgG1mmbRti161D3PeYGgDd7i_EjXa6CekY7eb9lBVy4zeYLrvDu/w291-h400/SCMRE-0010.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SCM #143/2010 BBM Rookie Edition #124</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>It wasn't obvious until I had seen all the cards but each card features a rookie from each year from 2001 to 2010. The following issue of SCM - #80, published in March, 2010 - included another ten cards. <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2018/05/latest-package-from-ryan.html" target="_blank">Each card reused the photo of a rookie card from 1991 to 2000 but used the 2010 BBM 1st Version design</a>. </p><p>It's been a long week so I may not be clear in explaining this. SCM #79 has 2010 BBM Rookie Edition-style cards of one rookie from each season from 2001 to 2010. SCM #80 has 2010 BBM 1st Version-style cards of one rookie from each season from 1991 to 2000. In other words, over the two issues of the magazine, BBM issued cards of a rookie from each year that they had published baseball cards. I don't have either of the issues in question but I'm pretty sure this was to celebrate BBM's 20th Anniversary doing cards.</p><p>Sports Card Magazine did two more batches of cards in 2010 to continue the 20th Anniversary celebration. Issue #81 in May contained <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2015/06/2010-scm-retro-rookies.html" target="_blank">cards of five 2010 rookies using the 1991 BBM format</a> while issue #83 in September had <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2024/03/card-of-week-march-3.html" target="_blank">three double-sided "Great Central" photo variant cards from the BBM 20th Anniversary set</a>.</p><p>I feel I should mention that the Yusei Kikuchi card above is almost identical to his card in the 2010 Rookie Edition set. The differences are the card number (the original card is #067), the background color of the photo on the front (the original is blue) and the photo on the back of the card (the original has a photo of the Lions' entire draft class while this card repeats the front photo). </p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-31244451013176353192024-03-14T21:23:00.003-04:002024-03-14T21:23:16.935-04:00Random Cards From RyanIt's been just over a month now since I got my latest "big box o'cards" from my friend <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> in Japan and I'm finally getting close to the end of the posts I wanted to do about what he sent me. I thought I'd do a relatively quick post tonight on some random cards that he sent me.<div><br /></div><div>First up are a couple rookie cards from BBM team sets - the first player was better known as an outfielder but his rookie card still reflects that he was drafted as a pitcher:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVSxWY-gZp5peJd1_spvVPh3iw6WL_aBkSRQTgwkOnR8dVWs8ohzIJgQn372noyDj7vzcq8_BNWXisrjEYmjSDkCDHa-snJk6ZizgrM2-N7iLuPXhiYmt4dSvv_1uRceGg2HFq59yU-iIhHIwrlPz4AYxjaKzIZ-YHjKxbPfwzk7xFJcnOm58IP0fR4kY/s1021/Random-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="739" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpVSxWY-gZp5peJd1_spvVPh3iw6WL_aBkSRQTgwkOnR8dVWs8ohzIJgQn372noyDj7vzcq8_BNWXisrjEYmjSDkCDHa-snJk6ZizgrM2-N7iLuPXhiYmt4dSvv_1uRceGg2HFq59yU-iIhHIwrlPz4AYxjaKzIZ-YHjKxbPfwzk7xFJcnOm58IP0fR4kY/w290-h400/Random-0001.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2004 BBM Fighters #F16</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD0RPDJ3qze-nCDT2CusxCN2olc92qNU9xe1dGFdIlebqW9FWb-Okw3rUsAdOtnc41fRdA20F6fwHig4aMw6LdhmA34doZScLEQLo1SwKqmWphgt7cj8BkvTQlABJ9QLYtsdhTSqQFv7IpjEVUysP6qXtvZxN-xw3Zh2OgMDcXtIbUaXHRdd-iKKe_gz_x/s1021/Random-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="739" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD0RPDJ3qze-nCDT2CusxCN2olc92qNU9xe1dGFdIlebqW9FWb-Okw3rUsAdOtnc41fRdA20F6fwHig4aMw6LdhmA34doZScLEQLo1SwKqmWphgt7cj8BkvTQlABJ9QLYtsdhTSqQFv7IpjEVUysP6qXtvZxN-xw3Zh2OgMDcXtIbUaXHRdd-iKKe_gz_x/w290-h400/Random-0002.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2007 BBM Giants #G071</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Speaking of BBM teams sets, I decided last year that I wanted to complete the sets from the 00's that I had opened boxes for. There were eleven of these in all - 2003-05 Giants, 2004, 2006-07 Tigers, 2004 Baystars, 2005 Dragons, 2006 Buffaloes and 2006-07 Swallows. Ryan found a bunch of the cards I needed from several of the sets, including all the cards I needed for the 2006 Buffaloes and Giants sets. I'm not going to show all the cards he got me from these sets (it was probably around 100 total) but here's a representative sample:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCjqpoPGvO9cuVG3WFrr7uyfzVysX2JqS9-Pa2eIF7yFxM4TUGuEgJ313Bz4lwqUj_5RGDznLvkSo7176neMgChkKP1BcGKAoif9VVkqT7vMvHpgATgluTNIBHMn0vNqVOm88edqRg8YWKzKc8s9y2TfSDHbf0SyaLHjzZrdRgAMhuGngfNI-J6A7jYb2V/s1021/Random-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCjqpoPGvO9cuVG3WFrr7uyfzVysX2JqS9-Pa2eIF7yFxM4TUGuEgJ313Bz4lwqUj_5RGDznLvkSo7176neMgChkKP1BcGKAoif9VVkqT7vMvHpgATgluTNIBHMn0vNqVOm88edqRg8YWKzKc8s9y2TfSDHbf0SyaLHjzZrdRgAMhuGngfNI-J6A7jYb2V/w289-h400/Random-0004.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2006 BBM Tigers #052</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLdkMfShFZmiXF7SfvJiV-TcLMtckeQkET7zr-vRU4jjmxVw0noZlMMLpOmApnyfqS50QgWH3Z9Y6KNI8l-e2QnSYR_oOIkwZkfheHdP2li_dIv8oE_C6uCp7EMwTO2Luk8k-ObBUhnGQ2wzlgRwSBVUD_UicKvQYc-YuA5YutqvSSONuwXt5jamPdcH39/s1021/Random-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLdkMfShFZmiXF7SfvJiV-TcLMtckeQkET7zr-vRU4jjmxVw0noZlMMLpOmApnyfqS50QgWH3Z9Y6KNI8l-e2QnSYR_oOIkwZkfheHdP2li_dIv8oE_C6uCp7EMwTO2Luk8k-ObBUhnGQ2wzlgRwSBVUD_UicKvQYc-YuA5YutqvSSONuwXt5jamPdcH39/w291-h400/Random-0005.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2007 BBM Tigers #T051</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwKCBPihV-Rlvov0Rfk2wCddBys3Km5shmizh_0jjPf-We0VqeQmblDQOiH1Pl5vVJNHK9cKCn-XZcuOUzVvoWDevrT7DwDp2UF_bHbuxvl_vjUBVR2Z1et3supG1LWmszOcLh4EaTvmcio6L4KBGxEvwEIP7LkeGYpgtdhEDi71okXzD51Cj9soDVyUo9/s1021/Random-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwKCBPihV-Rlvov0Rfk2wCddBys3Km5shmizh_0jjPf-We0VqeQmblDQOiH1Pl5vVJNHK9cKCn-XZcuOUzVvoWDevrT7DwDp2UF_bHbuxvl_vjUBVR2Z1et3supG1LWmszOcLh4EaTvmcio6L4KBGxEvwEIP7LkeGYpgtdhEDi71okXzD51Cj9soDVyUo9/w291-h400/Random-0006.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2007 BBM Tigers #T096</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBcT_LHofyTP3Ss4W0TUDGYc7GHi3yMExm_xyDVRKxNfoQ3N1ekVB4RfoDfYtPbf446NHUwX6tbtks6NO7DS_V1LZqjt8g-RKGTKNmCHAjpOcs7M1F9AolTEKiFJ_Ek_7WsJcN4LlZUl3FDXU0wovp0gysVVH9JBLDfzxBRw2qKwT_tX3C0m2MmKFoOyG/s1021/Random-0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBcT_LHofyTP3Ss4W0TUDGYc7GHi3yMExm_xyDVRKxNfoQ3N1ekVB4RfoDfYtPbf446NHUwX6tbtks6NO7DS_V1LZqjt8g-RKGTKNmCHAjpOcs7M1F9AolTEKiFJ_Ek_7WsJcN4LlZUl3FDXU0wovp0gysVVH9JBLDfzxBRw2qKwT_tX3C0m2MmKFoOyG/w289-h400/Random-0007.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2006 BBM Buffaloes #Bs31</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgODz-hF49tf04ue4jQ-AnhmCqzoyD6xt1rma5uQzIzH-U6eXgDmid9H4ZUG58KCiPFx8POXv-PotO13-pwNprM_vRtJkmYCPMcjoGYQQ6uYWNJ43Jz6MAF5XuQ6AvsaRCQgqkWUyWb3ycxYMCyuJmyLwO8vTg_3PJ1T8sLL2MefpOuaOmkpBHTjo46S1VK/s1021/Random-0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgODz-hF49tf04ue4jQ-AnhmCqzoyD6xt1rma5uQzIzH-U6eXgDmid9H4ZUG58KCiPFx8POXv-PotO13-pwNprM_vRtJkmYCPMcjoGYQQ6uYWNJ43Jz6MAF5XuQ6AvsaRCQgqkWUyWb3ycxYMCyuJmyLwO8vTg_3PJ1T8sLL2MefpOuaOmkpBHTjo46S1VK/w291-h400/Random-0008.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2006 BBM Swallows #TY07</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XFeXtCyfEpEhvu0ho0fsPyN4wUoxQxHI8wrBJEDpzPb0s0jUbb8RaAtl4tXV4FJ00g104IOP3EWrR1dEhB8QK9BRJD6EcHHwuAtuOqt1yKUTBlIHP24h0bBE7OR9srHWBNKdnjioIBpAQrawZnejrdXwZ90hVwNNcwihzvhFVliRl_20V1qNLFAaskbG/s1039/Random-0009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XFeXtCyfEpEhvu0ho0fsPyN4wUoxQxHI8wrBJEDpzPb0s0jUbb8RaAtl4tXV4FJ00g104IOP3EWrR1dEhB8QK9BRJD6EcHHwuAtuOqt1yKUTBlIHP24h0bBE7OR9srHWBNKdnjioIBpAQrawZnejrdXwZ90hVwNNcwihzvhFVliRl_20V1qNLFAaskbG/w284-h400/Random-0009.jpg" width="284" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2006 BBM Swallows #TY96</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8UWV8Mhv2IXhfsLMiTmtWFOrUZLfMPyCYXh3mJ0vWFHba7r40Q1LT5nlpvDKk4iMR1WOnBEnrTjrwjwkMU8b6s0LUTemxpGAU5IDq0XkiOg0KkHMNvPitISGhLZeh5z5ZpHwKB5minvynvUvnewbqknUEzqi1n3Kkk-IJTYGelXLqN4AeOiWCyzaMMCq/s1021/Random-0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8UWV8Mhv2IXhfsLMiTmtWFOrUZLfMPyCYXh3mJ0vWFHba7r40Q1LT5nlpvDKk4iMR1WOnBEnrTjrwjwkMU8b6s0LUTemxpGAU5IDq0XkiOg0KkHMNvPitISGhLZeh5z5ZpHwKB5minvynvUvnewbqknUEzqi1n3Kkk-IJTYGelXLqN4AeOiWCyzaMMCq/w291-h400/Random-0010.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2004 BBM Baystars #YB34</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1u-We68S67hyphenhyphenWS_BsXlzZU3zvA5gs68lrWIVwz_vWoLPOzXHsAjbstfdZ2oLtFnhmimbAfzWrlzEAUv8Hat2naG3TuiDfFBQNLA0FVCVn5YZJ_oOiNIMQwq3EHU2EHeLxyo4ON8EaAu9XCeqcaurgAZH5dWMVF932ZAYwJ6-rOktT98UKBHTykGXneJ4j/s1021/Random-0011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1u-We68S67hyphenhyphenWS_BsXlzZU3zvA5gs68lrWIVwz_vWoLPOzXHsAjbstfdZ2oLtFnhmimbAfzWrlzEAUv8Hat2naG3TuiDfFBQNLA0FVCVn5YZJ_oOiNIMQwq3EHU2EHeLxyo4ON8EaAu9XCeqcaurgAZH5dWMVF932ZAYwJ6-rOktT98UKBHTykGXneJ4j/w291-h400/Random-0011.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2003 BBM Giants #019</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9zyMvB0uss8G2Jkqs7wF9EieH9d0DesVe6_5tiO02G7PSv5aZfkn4E13TkPr41T12RHH7vJHI4f5m4HwHb7vtuqyUGzBLI-8xmxwVh-0OJlQfVHT9xp2TfHqdtbJcy61zvaa2P3jmLNly7xd_4b6qb0Tf15JYEGHODPEai_Y_UnnSXPK4EXRRhVBmGqU/s1021/Random-0012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1021" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9zyMvB0uss8G2Jkqs7wF9EieH9d0DesVe6_5tiO02G7PSv5aZfkn4E13TkPr41T12RHH7vJHI4f5m4HwHb7vtuqyUGzBLI-8xmxwVh-0OJlQfVHT9xp2TfHqdtbJcy61zvaa2P3jmLNly7xd_4b6qb0Tf15JYEGHODPEai_Y_UnnSXPK4EXRRhVBmGqU/w400-h291/Random-0012.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2004 BBM Giants #G49</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcDCs3-rrD7B9YknUWkdgVbUYl5pyybB-0j8bDQTnytVIl-vaBth1OWmy4APyF5suqAe2BTCIn9bujhEeiwlNhglbbCw2A7iMhIdgBQe7lEJ29-FYky4jurXQvdTVlzsQXzln7APOnGwA6ZjA5FxHkjY1y0it26LSjy8hgMx67NcRUpVPrOAkVriP42JCS/s1021/Random-0013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1021" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcDCs3-rrD7B9YknUWkdgVbUYl5pyybB-0j8bDQTnytVIl-vaBth1OWmy4APyF5suqAe2BTCIn9bujhEeiwlNhglbbCw2A7iMhIdgBQe7lEJ29-FYky4jurXQvdTVlzsQXzln7APOnGwA6ZjA5FxHkjY1y0it26LSjy8hgMx67NcRUpVPrOAkVriP42JCS/w400-h291/Random-0013.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2004 BBM Giants #G99</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGFA8WsK3rIxUpnlULA0m3orWmClhH7TCujQpQxL4XX_yLaqyHxh0_70GpXwfEFOHCwkw_ZKiwOIlvV61LOufXu9lCm3biUFhmtrFG9iKAODHSTodD9kXCvCRlOMckR7VB9zl1ZTd-DRyhrZwbazo98REVCyLPRx511ecSn8qnKe3NQsmXiTaXtWb6VGIh/s1039/Random-0014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGFA8WsK3rIxUpnlULA0m3orWmClhH7TCujQpQxL4XX_yLaqyHxh0_70GpXwfEFOHCwkw_ZKiwOIlvV61LOufXu9lCm3biUFhmtrFG9iKAODHSTodD9kXCvCRlOMckR7VB9zl1ZTd-DRyhrZwbazo98REVCyLPRx511ecSn8qnKe3NQsmXiTaXtWb6VGIh/w286-h400/Random-0014.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2005 BBM Giants #G014</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>I got a partial set of the 2019 BBM Brilliant Dragons set <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2020/01/zippy-zapped-box-sets.html" target="_blank">the first time I got Zippy Zapped</a> and I've been slowly attempting to find the three cards that Kenny didn't include. I found an auction last year for the Joely Rodriguez card - the final one I needed to complete the set and Ryan picked it up for me:</div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdTSXHInw6XTHM-K6YTOyNsd7s4DoO_7sBMypv6YkPBlLI4aZXJvJQbFFfpnsmoG4BnSlsZgrQqUrfYqHg1ilEDIaQqClXYgebYza_jKn2bHQqTqUCW7-uCIvWKi4dECqAImI_QxJJblSIgsUxnUWoS78dQFxO7x686KVBBPHKoH0n42VcKXzEoeAhF37m/s1021/Random-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdTSXHInw6XTHM-K6YTOyNsd7s4DoO_7sBMypv6YkPBlLI4aZXJvJQbFFfpnsmoG4BnSlsZgrQqUrfYqHg1ilEDIaQqClXYgebYza_jKn2bHQqTqUCW7-uCIvWKi4dECqAImI_QxJJblSIgsUxnUWoS78dQFxO7x686KVBBPHKoH0n42VcKXzEoeAhF37m/w289-h400/Random-0003.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2019 BBM Brilliant Dragons #11</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Another set I decided to try to complete was the 1999 BBM Mr Giants set which was a biographical set for Shigeo Nagashima. Ryan only found a couple of cards from this set for me but one of them was probably the most valuable - there's a subset featuring the Giant's top draft pick every year that Nagashima managed the team which means there's a card of Hideki Matsui:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1n-FtAN5ZdgQi4dtXPQ91_iNZkaPNIF4-1iLQbQnkHm7nubYiFIfkp771WzrEqBhEch0e8OAAgNZzYXZ1eZeNiflW0T2J5pjDMr8Mbe9bobKvi9nOUu3pf8j-d-G7WRs61LRbQatVtVXbLRu8g1wjk6oZfRfa47XP1hO_Yzr1CSnXtICC0jqWB2PHB5Ap/s1021/Random-0015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1n-FtAN5ZdgQi4dtXPQ91_iNZkaPNIF4-1iLQbQnkHm7nubYiFIfkp771WzrEqBhEch0e8OAAgNZzYXZ1eZeNiflW0T2J5pjDMr8Mbe9bobKvi9nOUu3pf8j-d-G7WRs61LRbQatVtVXbLRu8g1wjk6oZfRfa47XP1hO_Yzr1CSnXtICC0jqWB2PHB5Ap/w291-h400/Random-0015.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1999 BBM Mr Giants #G91</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>I hadn't gotten the "First Pitch Ceremony" cards from the 2021 BBM Fusion set when I originally got the set and I finally decided to go after them a few months ago. Ryan found six of them so I'm down to only needing three now:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6fVuHdNYT5DMiZ16b7CTtE4blTBfHgbtAcB8IHFpIWrQygA9uMQUmHF-tQOGT7heJdl5Yx__k7aYMpo9lLIdzBcYJAXHWS7cjOy1TN54XVIUex4nvcW4fv_X91mC8Wz8c0uebJACV-nqvPfl5pvLCuBFi5Q_rhqbxdLDWML1VvqtMElInFFMHvWLwq64q/s1021/Random-0016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6fVuHdNYT5DMiZ16b7CTtE4blTBfHgbtAcB8IHFpIWrQygA9uMQUmHF-tQOGT7heJdl5Yx__k7aYMpo9lLIdzBcYJAXHWS7cjOy1TN54XVIUex4nvcW4fv_X91mC8Wz8c0uebJACV-nqvPfl5pvLCuBFi5Q_rhqbxdLDWML1VvqtMElInFFMHvWLwq64q/w291-h400/Random-0016.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2021 BBM Fusion #FP31</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>I've been somewhat ambivalently attempting to complete the "Rising Stars" subset from the 2000 Upper Deck Ovation set for a few years now and Ryan picked me up several more cards from it. I'm down to only needing one card from the set now so I guess I really am going to try to complete it (but I still don't like the set that much):</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-EPfwN1dPlwQWk5ArDZFoFtJhf_F1PZFGBwOJkJMeIRlUl08QniTiAN7VZ4EGDuFRF2_br49exCpspgGOeH8QprqiPsKo-b7QBsDF8o2Ma2f3vQHbNtc4cQu9wa7hLEgS30zHc6yZfyrQ_MzWG0refbzekipl_wRFkFDnJ_TM1jIpDl40qrVKwJzIjuCK/s1021/Random-0017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-EPfwN1dPlwQWk5ArDZFoFtJhf_F1PZFGBwOJkJMeIRlUl08QniTiAN7VZ4EGDuFRF2_br49exCpspgGOeH8QprqiPsKo-b7QBsDF8o2Ma2f3vQHbNtc4cQu9wa7hLEgS30zHc6yZfyrQ_MzWG0refbzekipl_wRFkFDnJ_TM1jIpDl40qrVKwJzIjuCK/w291-h400/Random-0017.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #10</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Speaking of sets I don't like that much...I ended up asking Ryan to pick up this "1989" insert card for Takeya Nakamura from the 2023 Bowman NPB set. This is completely because I like Nakamura and not because I like the Bowman set:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3P5rut81-49Twxer6mKJoREXbOhiAEJGTVP7-QgbNCCGLBBoCqlQUowQDBakIDjAfcvUjYsMcH5OCM4suL8jc88TeAh5D0wxL0QWGt0Pwu21rnsfqBjaQicTJU08myk9uetwuqQkaSYIVJbUvXz8TeKUZeyT1a6-BwZNYidXIzhUzYsC45TeCHmuDNjtb/s1021/Random-0018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3P5rut81-49Twxer6mKJoREXbOhiAEJGTVP7-QgbNCCGLBBoCqlQUowQDBakIDjAfcvUjYsMcH5OCM4suL8jc88TeAh5D0wxL0QWGt0Pwu21rnsfqBjaQicTJU08myk9uetwuqQkaSYIVJbUvXz8TeKUZeyT1a6-BwZNYidXIzhUzYsC45TeCHmuDNjtb/w291-h400/Random-0018.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Bowman NPB #89B-5</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>I've mentioned <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2024/02/card-of-week-february-18.html" target="_blank">that big lot of Lions cards I had asked Ryan to pick up</a> - there was a rookie card of Hiroyuki Nakajima from the 2001 Broccoli set lurking in it:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz5GyWaV52sWB-VV9HeXgh7gNpOJEhb3HHFEPS_fF8geXHtOfQpoe6Vj7-VWEIwiy9u3TXvOwt_7_i8ZD1O6Ba6qGA2NE2hD33iabb6Kjva1zkdbX6-VDtIYWMJnE-6cGAZJzeWnJS9J8FYHKKCuNdNtddVsry1GNLE-gnc-1xRmC7nMuldTWhzFNzpjr_/s1021/Random-0019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="732" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz5GyWaV52sWB-VV9HeXgh7gNpOJEhb3HHFEPS_fF8geXHtOfQpoe6Vj7-VWEIwiy9u3TXvOwt_7_i8ZD1O6Ba6qGA2NE2hD33iabb6Kjva1zkdbX6-VDtIYWMJnE-6cGAZJzeWnJS9J8FYHKKCuNdNtddVsry1GNLE-gnc-1xRmC7nMuldTWhzFNzpjr_/w286-h400/Random-0019.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2001 Broccoli #065</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I came across a printed autograph card of Yutaka Enatsu from the 2010 BBM Premium Malts set for a low price on Yahoo! Japan Auctions and asked Ryan to pick it up:<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvyxsK0u3pqU3S_7aIzp710N7E3ICUSyGtUv_n-FsyYy2AuITbIZjKAUHHHGRQX7MhQQ_nA59d45PikOr6XGbIsfaoAfz9vIhyphenhyphenOHfdNptezfK94Gn3xCsdupoWdJaUs191Dv-cH_Gu_e7NFwH2zzYbthe88AFjeMXNMc7Mf5hmDdOvHyuqj6Su3ug7qXGN/s1021/Random-0020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvyxsK0u3pqU3S_7aIzp710N7E3ICUSyGtUv_n-FsyYy2AuITbIZjKAUHHHGRQX7MhQQ_nA59d45PikOr6XGbIsfaoAfz9vIhyphenhyphenOHfdNptezfK94Gn3xCsdupoWdJaUs191Dv-cH_Gu_e7NFwH2zzYbthe88AFjeMXNMc7Mf5hmDdOvHyuqj6Su3ug7qXGN/w400-h289/Random-0020.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2010 BBM Premium Malts #MP1</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div>Finally if you've been paying attention to other posts I'm done with round ups of random cards from the boxes Ryan has sent me, you should be expecting these next items - Epoch NPB promo cards! Ryan sent me one for the 2022 set but he sent me 20 for the 2023 set:</div></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWSktybnXvthhyYj3FPn98icZV4pcZz0SdDx4JwbGzEVykOXh9R7yIW6dSob3Pqk5kIiwA7m6T1s3_iqJl9Cc4TZXTvzBUSxptZBP78j60VyEZ-EOVkWfo6V_II0aTnS1W1H0iApN2X36nVwhbTYi59xnzxAThSelaRKbxp5rBpNbCLE3Btu17-rDUqgk/s1039/Random-0021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjWSktybnXvthhyYj3FPn98icZV4pcZz0SdDx4JwbGzEVykOXh9R7yIW6dSob3Pqk5kIiwA7m6T1s3_iqJl9Cc4TZXTvzBUSxptZBP78j60VyEZ-EOVkWfo6V_II0aTnS1W1H0iApN2X36nVwhbTYi59xnzxAThSelaRKbxp5rBpNbCLE3Btu17-rDUqgk/w286-h400/Random-0021.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2022 Epoch NPB Promo #155</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmwb7x3iD-WVFqd2gN0quA-MDHiP5UKL1udSVbu9IQYKKsa3rXR44dptRpm3BltHRnLg8QY7qAF2UY804YzYf_BAC7O2OfhI10bWmp4vWHl1X75e4qLHYPTcm532pPGgTj_zwMBEioN_fAgpUpVgNpcZ20YWtHCr_nZrBc7DPziaBYhzG5ADMhT0LmbJp/s1021/Random-0022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmwb7x3iD-WVFqd2gN0quA-MDHiP5UKL1udSVbu9IQYKKsa3rXR44dptRpm3BltHRnLg8QY7qAF2UY804YzYf_BAC7O2OfhI10bWmp4vWHl1X75e4qLHYPTcm532pPGgTj_zwMBEioN_fAgpUpVgNpcZ20YWtHCr_nZrBc7DPziaBYhzG5ADMhT0LmbJp/w291-h400/Random-0022.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch NPB Promo #166</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>Once again, I want to thank Ryan for gathering all these cards up and sending them to me.</div>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-15212870723817528292024-03-12T20:32:00.002-04:002024-03-12T20:32:55.771-04:002023 BBM Farewell Set (the Expurgated Version)<p>Starting in 2011, BBM has issued an annual box set each winter featuring the baseball players who retired the previous season. For the first few years the set might include multiple cards for a player, especially if that player had played for more than one team during his career. For example, Kazuo Fukumori had three cards in the inaugural 2011 set showing him with the Baystars, the Kintetsu Buffaloes and the Eagles. After a few years, however, BBM reduced the number of cards to only one per player and used photos of the player from their final NPB team, regardless of whether they had spent most of their career with another team. I think the most egregious example of this was the 2021 set showing Hisashi Iwakuma as a member of the Yomiuri Giants, the last time he "played for" in Japan if you consider two innings pitched on the farm team having "played for" the team.</p><p>Despite these changes, I still made it a point to pick up this set every year - or more accurately ask <a href="http://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> to pick it up for me (<a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2013/04/opened-box-sets.html" target="_blank">although I did buy the first three sets myself on my first trip to Japan 11 years ago this week</a>). But three years ago, BBM made a change to the set that made me lose interest - they added retiring athletes from other sports to the set. I've mentioned many times that I'm really a one trick pony any more when it comes to sports - I don't really pay any attention to anything other than baseball. I made the decision in 2022 to not get this set anymore and I've skipped it the past two years as well.</p><p>So I was kind of surprised to discover a partial 2023 set in the box of cards that Ryan sent me. What he did was send me just the baseball players from the set - 26 cards out of the original 39 in the base set. I don't know what became of the other 13 cards but I don't really have to care about them. Of course, this does bother my OCD some knowing this isn't really a complete set but I'm trying to ignore that.</p><p>For the cards themselves, they're pretty much what we've come to expect from this set. There's a combination of photos from the player's retirement ceremonies where they're either waving goodbye to the fans or being tossed in the air by their teammates and generic "pitcher pitching, batters batting" photos of the players while they were still active. The photo on the card is from the last year the player was active in NPB - for example Kazuhisa Makita spent the 2022 season in Taiwan playing for the CTBC Brothers so his photo is from the 2021 season when he pitched for the Eagles. The big names in the set are probably Kosuke Fukudome, Yoshio Itoi, Chihiro Kaneko, Tomotaka Sakaguchi and Tetsuya Utsumi. Here's some sample cards:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKLktxxT36N9B0m6G1Vlb2hLUR6bJmKZ5JFfRB2UdCzwoo8NCjZXYs-QC0RmHAGD60RNcm4W8Grmmb49t9G5nHOD9ZQtoj2SMgKHj-nGH09LtO4gpD9WH0pIueNaI91uIq3ECqmjEYU8OBXtTmwqlTFl1IvfuBHl0ZU7GXtk5LSJFkkBppD3AAYlPhXlWp/s1039/Farewell-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKLktxxT36N9B0m6G1Vlb2hLUR6bJmKZ5JFfRB2UdCzwoo8NCjZXYs-QC0RmHAGD60RNcm4W8Grmmb49t9G5nHOD9ZQtoj2SMgKHj-nGH09LtO4gpD9WH0pIueNaI91uIq3ECqmjEYU8OBXtTmwqlTFl1IvfuBHl0ZU7GXtk5LSJFkkBppD3AAYlPhXlWp/w286-h400/Farewell-0001.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#01</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHR-j1s7rIqMwm6rgatDpY4lqchHAYaZE96r05wHurfD4T7OSpmGL4g02Y7bxWR4Ux-C6daQthmSFvxPFQI_xGQoxPAv-3sZWlZXOBdJllTBVvS_DsC5-HbswXuqPrz082TBxWDwLZi6zjRpyF1YKl8UiiiGHc5beMWIMyUIob8N1xcjDQeiswTdbw_Pn5/s1021/Farewell-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHR-j1s7rIqMwm6rgatDpY4lqchHAYaZE96r05wHurfD4T7OSpmGL4g02Y7bxWR4Ux-C6daQthmSFvxPFQI_xGQoxPAv-3sZWlZXOBdJllTBVvS_DsC5-HbswXuqPrz082TBxWDwLZi6zjRpyF1YKl8UiiiGHc5beMWIMyUIob8N1xcjDQeiswTdbw_Pn5/w291-h400/Farewell-0002.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#03</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNCs__Gpe4nRQnDtT8NmxTpHZPw26ctcpB3uhKIclRqq4bd5zSHAy1HqX8tAj9i4uPKryPy2N64zdPkyW2MvKR7z3N1-2Sf1u-DQKL2MakFzG0KcV54udl8pRr8wdVYd4q6PvRW1C8sfgIlYEHzxyPBIJ1NbjlNF2W2vOGnru_XLJ-JJsMIWorwLbOzRj/s1021/Farewell-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1021" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNCs__Gpe4nRQnDtT8NmxTpHZPw26ctcpB3uhKIclRqq4bd5zSHAy1HqX8tAj9i4uPKryPy2N64zdPkyW2MvKR7z3N1-2Sf1u-DQKL2MakFzG0KcV54udl8pRr8wdVYd4q6PvRW1C8sfgIlYEHzxyPBIJ1NbjlNF2W2vOGnru_XLJ-JJsMIWorwLbOzRj/w400-h291/Farewell-0003.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#08</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXEe3jd7frElSHaOLdMqcfMd906MvkuFP9FBfyktadcHG-YXjju7SKe5h8_5PMxNTaQo3A-rrxZNGw6yxrlGuoTWcv6RLLjoJJMFxY6hgNk-pxkT3Ka18YZkWqKuKAOlViXDg0UUNVtTTA3RNxhDoY8vFhmHeji-USa8Tp24IN_9K9S1D8UkIcd6K45e1I/s1021/Farewell-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXEe3jd7frElSHaOLdMqcfMd906MvkuFP9FBfyktadcHG-YXjju7SKe5h8_5PMxNTaQo3A-rrxZNGw6yxrlGuoTWcv6RLLjoJJMFxY6hgNk-pxkT3Ka18YZkWqKuKAOlViXDg0UUNVtTTA3RNxhDoY8vFhmHeji-USa8Tp24IN_9K9S1D8UkIcd6K45e1I/w291-h400/Farewell-0004.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7IHmZydkiM62AWuI6FsMmVIXOk_S6Scz7R4d-bK9XQtO7dZS2rkXjGXH8fyw34K9ArP_gqwUjEm0PfZ4a_Rt0DRHYDPsZ0KhTmbn8g3Ns5g7mMjtJcUHzuJ87MY3u4W5eiDEcwiHszWGtciZ8WpLPsY5qriExiwlely_CVdyl2_1Yqfty0lBv1AwpzlC/s1021/Farewell-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi7IHmZydkiM62AWuI6FsMmVIXOk_S6Scz7R4d-bK9XQtO7dZS2rkXjGXH8fyw34K9ArP_gqwUjEm0PfZ4a_Rt0DRHYDPsZ0KhTmbn8g3Ns5g7mMjtJcUHzuJ87MY3u4W5eiDEcwiHszWGtciZ8WpLPsY5qriExiwlely_CVdyl2_1Yqfty0lBv1AwpzlC/w291-h400/Farewell-0005.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#02</td></tr></tbody></table><p>You can see all the cards (including the non-baseball ones) over at <a href="https://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/jambalaya/bbm2023c0c.html?strcid=bbm2023c0c&n=100#CentSrchFilter1" target="_blank">Jambalaya</a>.</p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-73644584524729943162024-03-11T21:35:00.004-04:002024-03-11T21:35:56.952-04:002006 BBM Weekly Baseball 1st Version Promos<p>I did <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/07/2007-bbm-weekly-baseball-opening-game.html" target="_blank">a post last summer</a> about a set of 12 promo cards for the 2007 BBM 1st Version set issued with Shukan (Weekly) Baseball. Each card featured a different photo than the corresponding card in the 1st Version set and was labeled "2007 Opening Game Weekly Baseball".</p><p>Shortly after doing that post I had discovered that BBM had done something similar in 2006 although it was 24 cards in all. The first 12 cards were the top draft picks for each team from the previous fall's draft (although I don't quite know how they selected players because that draft had two separate phases - one for high school players and the other for college/industrial league players) while the other 12 were for established players. I had found an auction on Yahoo! Japan Auctions for the latter 12 cards and asked <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> to pick them up for me. The cards were in the box he sent me last month.</p><p>The fronts of the promo cards have a yellow-ish border instead of the white of the original cards and have a "Weekly Baseball" label on the bottom. The backs are identical and have the same card numbers. Here's all 12 cards alongside their original versions:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFrRIpL8aaedQkvTW79L5xN-p9qGxCEyH75_JfJh3Tt9fBgLaBgVOncI_RM-OrwQoSngOkhUv7ATgCowYHE9qO8dJssw3cK_UMpzXD_2d1CveulQ4s_z-Miy4WQvEgdyz4MOxYSYKqZXFl7QHcGGvJdSIzl68NLctsI2yxfbV9e7kTxATLzLlo9frP6EM0/s1478/2006-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFrRIpL8aaedQkvTW79L5xN-p9qGxCEyH75_JfJh3Tt9fBgLaBgVOncI_RM-OrwQoSngOkhUv7ATgCowYHE9qO8dJssw3cK_UMpzXD_2d1CveulQ4s_z-Miy4WQvEgdyz4MOxYSYKqZXFl7QHcGGvJdSIzl68NLctsI2yxfbV9e7kTxATLzLlo9frP6EM0/w400-h276/2006-0001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#20</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgyNS-6lIIlAgtGY7QPQls2xDk1SSCfnNeMhjy4UUSjlFlVSkA5WHZOB8z6TJ-v2bk5sOx2EWZBqHyOBa8rFhDQXFywt2NlZF9CBJtfQIyrs1xTeOEg09lEqLbAg1oJsJz-RT086cIF_1rAWD-J6ytXqA_rLb9ZVEMZjRdkJlmTChXbapGn0Sk_j3rCZ75/s1478/2006-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgyNS-6lIIlAgtGY7QPQls2xDk1SSCfnNeMhjy4UUSjlFlVSkA5WHZOB8z6TJ-v2bk5sOx2EWZBqHyOBa8rFhDQXFywt2NlZF9CBJtfQIyrs1xTeOEg09lEqLbAg1oJsJz-RT086cIF_1rAWD-J6ytXqA_rLb9ZVEMZjRdkJlmTChXbapGn0Sk_j3rCZ75/w400-h276/2006-0002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#53</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMCdF9fpnbr0Cl3PdrwQ3gwcvDEXueR2gFPUtsUJMOP5iRnm1SuAPbiR41ZIGw0DPFRfzwYW2xknW3HtneeHYKm0xEJHLGHS44HcbyvNLrEjWUADkWeuWKLCoJpQm5nVNyZC819ZEUDaOICXdx9wpeoawVhvKMq2fdgXUVlAslYE9aiAj_lzYsy2yzDHA/s1478/2006-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMCdF9fpnbr0Cl3PdrwQ3gwcvDEXueR2gFPUtsUJMOP5iRnm1SuAPbiR41ZIGw0DPFRfzwYW2xknW3HtneeHYKm0xEJHLGHS44HcbyvNLrEjWUADkWeuWKLCoJpQm5nVNyZC819ZEUDaOICXdx9wpeoawVhvKMq2fdgXUVlAslYE9aiAj_lzYsy2yzDHA/w400-h276/2006-0003.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#75</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6g3_R4JSZWk_XWdpppky2OQu48bnZbPaP0yTYj4gWGNl5NVI3ag0KGmsgMEJ28oOYPInRni4Xd9M2ExyO7gy-k8vkI0kbbfaFYGkMQNZEFyHsgY6m71WZbR0gs83r3W7WEzXDE_6vLoVzxIXz1I0GOVh7F696rIWvRtDSOY4EbGMSB7Ri1PXtUiwn-Wot/s1478/2006-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1033" data-original-width="1478" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6g3_R4JSZWk_XWdpppky2OQu48bnZbPaP0yTYj4gWGNl5NVI3ag0KGmsgMEJ28oOYPInRni4Xd9M2ExyO7gy-k8vkI0kbbfaFYGkMQNZEFyHsgY6m71WZbR0gs83r3W7WEzXDE_6vLoVzxIXz1I0GOVh7F696rIWvRtDSOY4EbGMSB7Ri1PXtUiwn-Wot/w400-h280/2006-0004.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#125</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6EGc9lrY0vuSviqrw5iTGsMdlWmq9wxAxGJG0dRU2iuZ86T14bjVmk89BkZgyUGASRFCzMLK2hIBn3aq8EbS2tuNlGIsVD-wi6CWUcxb-APadmAA4t7955F8hnlaN4HfvnXn9VOrcXXQ2sxdfRBQGPEz9jiwchKTuBn4uxGi3Qp46DJS4BWNNMTCNadk/s1478/2006-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-6EGc9lrY0vuSviqrw5iTGsMdlWmq9wxAxGJG0dRU2iuZ86T14bjVmk89BkZgyUGASRFCzMLK2hIBn3aq8EbS2tuNlGIsVD-wi6CWUcxb-APadmAA4t7955F8hnlaN4HfvnXn9VOrcXXQ2sxdfRBQGPEz9jiwchKTuBn4uxGi3Qp46DJS4BWNNMTCNadk/w400-h276/2006-0005.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#159</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2nzTBbSzJRX4wiD5nqI3-eL3eTZys1pyFG_W1Gtj0ksqke3ikNwxR4RWfl3dLtBNsTsvpfEouxnhgI7L5UxNR33qpRzCsx2FuSr2rFX1pE8Fb-dpyRZRlaFlaOF3YilSrIIyHAe5Yan_0_lyHcwlHCzQwp8XBaQC7EAjZ0okY279inojhMhsCvyOl7L6A/s1478/2006-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2nzTBbSzJRX4wiD5nqI3-eL3eTZys1pyFG_W1Gtj0ksqke3ikNwxR4RWfl3dLtBNsTsvpfEouxnhgI7L5UxNR33qpRzCsx2FuSr2rFX1pE8Fb-dpyRZRlaFlaOF3YilSrIIyHAe5Yan_0_lyHcwlHCzQwp8XBaQC7EAjZ0okY279inojhMhsCvyOl7L6A/w400-h276/2006-0006.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#182</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxls3ZfSFfqmZBqoMW_15C01Mt8uLtlanmlOkJTFwM_ps2ki2Y-Ss4brN-5PRxTfmZUcOLez4dp9woG1tXfbh1N90D7Ei9OehUPLSni6_ahTRJZEGrXVY6Xv37NXxcmHuyC7o5vPKQuA3pjFfjq7u9jtK5pBwvQ1oUEah8ErfRRoaCjYtErJ7tNiEUTavo/s1478/2006-0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxls3ZfSFfqmZBqoMW_15C01Mt8uLtlanmlOkJTFwM_ps2ki2Y-Ss4brN-5PRxTfmZUcOLez4dp9woG1tXfbh1N90D7Ei9OehUPLSni6_ahTRJZEGrXVY6Xv37NXxcmHuyC7o5vPKQuA3pjFfjq7u9jtK5pBwvQ1oUEah8ErfRRoaCjYtErJ7tNiEUTavo/w400-h276/2006-0007.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#242</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNJbA0D8Re01FSN7m0wZAX-NBGwf3YJDz47j_I_unKyM84X00K2FodpomrV_JPk5t8kApINDyxzqW_Ftl8dfucKq1KGGKluewQkKkjbNhxXBB6QLPHtxbX9giXW3Bij-lFw8qhtoeAAL3nOzxlmqT_vbxm-zlEQbr8WuBbowYnT4MtfcbC2Ff07YlhebeE/w400-h276/2006-0009.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#294</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIc2xumNO-iAJOJZCCgnjOMKQeqUeLL6Kfawni7Ozwwg4-Hc9mBnETa_uDj7A9Da_rVHYCeQ7Xehb1X3b8oMOw9Ls9SS9aRbSKmWI6UE6cnyx8LS_doykMCp8Z0FuvHnHBwjz_sddizG6Z17v05YbmN3aPcuzONOMc7uOAK_6tH5LUflJwB1Hey6qRaN-7/s1478/2006-0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIc2xumNO-iAJOJZCCgnjOMKQeqUeLL6Kfawni7Ozwwg4-Hc9mBnETa_uDj7A9Da_rVHYCeQ7Xehb1X3b8oMOw9Ls9SS9aRbSKmWI6UE6cnyx8LS_doykMCp8Z0FuvHnHBwjz_sddizG6Z17v05YbmN3aPcuzONOMc7uOAK_6tH5LUflJwB1Hey6qRaN-7/w400-h276/2006-0010.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#351</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHGTP9p0VXLoHkCuymsWJnFh7FlTx-DgnkkK66pURtNGjVU0oEjTkRYHR6BwZqiXPB5OXMugefZrWe_0z-D0JtgWZXUcZq_6QX813FMascfFvhJH-131XC_Im1ugb_7DJvEyn18BJUTfD9x6q961XfWPBnp29NkS8C71vF_2gxdrOzvA9osf6M53_pcwgc/s1478/2006-0011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHGTP9p0VXLoHkCuymsWJnFh7FlTx-DgnkkK66pURtNGjVU0oEjTkRYHR6BwZqiXPB5OXMugefZrWe_0z-D0JtgWZXUcZq_6QX813FMascfFvhJH-131XC_Im1ugb_7DJvEyn18BJUTfD9x6q961XfWPBnp29NkS8C71vF_2gxdrOzvA9osf6M53_pcwgc/w400-h276/2006-0011.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#366</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7g920bzi-uhleRyuRKjKSkp-3BG7CyBDYQQpW4sTXJQlIjZYFtYtEneD9IKuxIRukSIUWwfGkzgW2k2X91izH30g0YytKmxObpyxBORM8VEp9LUt3OuKOBhb-o8Pm4bq1GcahOD5FlupIEl-NRcrs_tU-d7vhz3yZP0P19nlF3wO-l51T3hatxU6-1fVj/s1478/2006-0012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7g920bzi-uhleRyuRKjKSkp-3BG7CyBDYQQpW4sTXJQlIjZYFtYtEneD9IKuxIRukSIUWwfGkzgW2k2X91izH30g0YytKmxObpyxBORM8VEp9LUt3OuKOBhb-o8Pm4bq1GcahOD5FlupIEl-NRcrs_tU-d7vhz3yZP0P19nlF3wO-l51T3hatxU6-1fVj/w400-h276/2006-0012.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#400</td></tr></tbody></table><p>It probably doesn't mean anything but I find it interesting that Norichika Aoki and Hiroki Kuroda are the only players to appear in both the 2006 and 2007 promo sets.</p><p>As I said, the backs of the promo cards are identical to the original cards. If I didn't tell you the promo card was on the right here, I don't think you'd be able to tell:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGzZCLaqHEbe8CrL_gmMVOlxQprSC-7OyJXQ4f8rMYlcfwDYxYEWllSBWL6Wc8NEBUz5TityC_ohmY8LpnSbE6DVWMcOjipUnlkF-rFFzoEcQJ4xbHTzPPmr5eSJI4INtnVypN5yu8i8q3JZ9kuzSyFYyAdHCBDBlSY431orb8XSHXXW4MwiWNhuCKL5E/s1478/2006-0013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1478" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGzZCLaqHEbe8CrL_gmMVOlxQprSC-7OyJXQ4f8rMYlcfwDYxYEWllSBWL6Wc8NEBUz5TityC_ohmY8LpnSbE6DVWMcOjipUnlkF-rFFzoEcQJ4xbHTzPPmr5eSJI4INtnVypN5yu8i8q3JZ9kuzSyFYyAdHCBDBlSY431orb8XSHXXW4MwiWNhuCKL5E/w400-h276/2006-0013.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>I'd love to track down the other 12 cards but they seem to be pretty rare. I don't know if BBM did anything similar for any other years.</p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-77109801375023102202024-03-10T21:29:00.001-04:002024-03-10T21:29:33.161-04:00Calbees from Ryan<p>I wanted to do a quick post on the Calbee cards that <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> sent me in that big box of cards last month.</p><p>I had found four Calbee cards on Mandarake's website that I was interested in but I didn't want to spend $30 to have them ship me them so I asked Ryan to pick them up for me. We'll start with those.</p><p>This card shows a matchup between the Nippon-Ham Fighters and Lotte Orions at Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo on April 3, 1976 which was Opening Day. What's significant about this game is it was the first regular season game in Japan to be played on artificial turf. Only 15,000 fans were in attendance as the <a href="https://2689web.com/1976/OF/OF1.html" target="_blank">Fighters won 8-3</a> - you can see there's a lot of empty seats:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizjYZ0v1d3w8C-m2HASVIZ1AsCjBNYQGYnAoKYHH-RypTK6H7Qpfwvzc9Abjm5dCEIzN3GmYJY7gTvctPrlczED9J8HFPUadKksNnJUc417VAQCoC0RqT3jwfmdAdx0cduwS0HHKH6zHlZVjF1Ev-MQHjhEpH85DX8cqd2MGXMI1_B7POZp1Z6GyUKeLS4/s927/Calbee-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="927" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizjYZ0v1d3w8C-m2HASVIZ1AsCjBNYQGYnAoKYHH-RypTK6H7Qpfwvzc9Abjm5dCEIzN3GmYJY7gTvctPrlczED9J8HFPUadKksNnJUc417VAQCoC0RqT3jwfmdAdx0cduwS0HHKH6zHlZVjF1Ev-MQHjhEpH85DX8cqd2MGXMI1_B7POZp1Z6GyUKeLS4/w400-h301/Calbee-0001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1975/76/77 Calbee #503</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Calbee experimented a little in their 1993 set with multiple exposure photos:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdoBvbriHCTDwXTcoe8zOb-nwvtBlNf3g-reVqIM04-_kE0nP-xtUdAGO2H7WwMQtAYIMYU5i2IUO-01-fM7X5OBDSAqarMzdxPgZPuWWCFQK__bZtYxuC1J8C8RIknyL_VXJXIdHSLCj3eUUPMkNg3_m23odUCPMB9MXY0nqCxKlrPWiWhlMfTXX-UNIN/s999/Calbee-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="999" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdoBvbriHCTDwXTcoe8zOb-nwvtBlNf3g-reVqIM04-_kE0nP-xtUdAGO2H7WwMQtAYIMYU5i2IUO-01-fM7X5OBDSAqarMzdxPgZPuWWCFQK__bZtYxuC1J8C8RIknyL_VXJXIdHSLCj3eUUPMkNg3_m23odUCPMB9MXY0nqCxKlrPWiWhlMfTXX-UNIN/w400-h250/Calbee-0002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1993 Calbee #23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheIJOQ1jzBpqj1pq32rKIGE9GReIfcDyB2K29v91VQ3BW2zc9IGd3BpKLDQR63rCYHtj8pfXzbHZOSH06kWNcAie3V5_MEw3PzRbBPmcUDpldnwBxRDyI4jwjCwRB7rkNE4GQ6AUIwpyNFamVdLhDYY5B4JPq8Zdji654S4H6VQ_jMkQreJNpkbCub-wOF/s1001/Calbee-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="1001" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheIJOQ1jzBpqj1pq32rKIGE9GReIfcDyB2K29v91VQ3BW2zc9IGd3BpKLDQR63rCYHtj8pfXzbHZOSH06kWNcAie3V5_MEw3PzRbBPmcUDpldnwBxRDyI4jwjCwRB7rkNE4GQ6AUIwpyNFamVdLhDYY5B4JPq8Zdji654S4H6VQ_jMkQreJNpkbCub-wOF/w400-h249/Calbee-0003.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1993 Calbee #19</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I'm pretty sure these were the only 1993 cards that were essentially collages but there was at least one other unusual photo:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96JPV-C2jVHkyllMhCwUHiwHhEtD3ISmvMQNjm-d-GyQuPFrE4sNmt63eQmWlWMrc1IOwPxfibRD0Qa-EltvSAXPMHRT5yPc7HkD5Nx7e9di0DdVMyV8VYE01NxmefzsEINCcno33TsMhJQq51mS-gkruCWd8JZL5kpnKfkVeG98yMp3SdLIYdL3hh8jC/s997/Calbee-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="997" data-original-width="625" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj96JPV-C2jVHkyllMhCwUHiwHhEtD3ISmvMQNjm-d-GyQuPFrE4sNmt63eQmWlWMrc1IOwPxfibRD0Qa-EltvSAXPMHRT5yPc7HkD5Nx7e9di0DdVMyV8VYE01NxmefzsEINCcno33TsMhJQq51mS-gkruCWd8JZL5kpnKfkVeG98yMp3SdLIYdL3hh8jC/w251-h400/Calbee-0004.jpg" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1993 Calbee #26</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Hideki Irabu spent his last two seasons in NPB with the Hanshin Tigers in 2003 and 2004. For some reason, there aren't many cards of him as a Tiger. There's are five BBM cards from 2003 (All Stars, Nippon Series, Tigers Victory Road (Prologue) and two cards in the Tigers Victory Road Championship set), three BBM cards from the 2004 Tigers set (including an insert card) and one 2004 Calbee card. So no BBM flagship cards and no cards in the "regular" 2003 BBM Tigers set. I have four of the seven BBM cards but I didn't have the Calbee card. I found an auction for it on Yahoo! Japan Auctions and asked Ryan to grab it for me:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNuQ9v-OUQ1iUWDx1HEqCcVKAlgzU_cDg-O4VDOaeXhWXOcPr1sQmaVlnhOltJSwXvp4_owKNgWnpM5G2OSU5ufoE1Mv32KUwJ7mPnyS8RGg3nszVQObOqXdBBqsXdEfXyof_ph1Zbc6_BKCGxzIvWkoqWlhe-1QM1Z3CxT4FikRvwnMyj7GFj9a11mgbh/s1000/Calbee-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="685" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNuQ9v-OUQ1iUWDx1HEqCcVKAlgzU_cDg-O4VDOaeXhWXOcPr1sQmaVlnhOltJSwXvp4_owKNgWnpM5G2OSU5ufoE1Mv32KUwJ7mPnyS8RGg3nszVQObOqXdBBqsXdEfXyof_ph1Zbc6_BKCGxzIvWkoqWlhe-1QM1Z3CxT4FikRvwnMyj7GFj9a11mgbh/w274-h400/Calbee-0005.jpg" width="274" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2004 Calbee #M-07</td></tr></tbody></table><p><a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2024/02/card-of-week-february-18.html" target="_blank">The big lot of Lions cards I asked Ryan to pick up for me</a> had one Calbee card that I didn't already have - this rookie card of Hideaki Wakui:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkb6Re_5Hbx8vuAFWMx_1FYn9B64V_argstnD7T2_7PpfMPxFXL9CAt6xJQWbtdK5lB5cK8iHC3tldDSPpMU9mYzlLpUDXT6utS9C7tuvWlbRrRpnzCU0Li6kEfCFkr3_2_tpV6FSq3bvFNzTQP6kAfb687bvkYODpddhdQBv05Pyxd8v-tGsiK-Sm3nr1/s997/Calbee-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="997" data-original-width="684" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkb6Re_5Hbx8vuAFWMx_1FYn9B64V_argstnD7T2_7PpfMPxFXL9CAt6xJQWbtdK5lB5cK8iHC3tldDSPpMU9mYzlLpUDXT6utS9C7tuvWlbRrRpnzCU0Li6kEfCFkr3_2_tpV6FSq3bvFNzTQP6kAfb687bvkYODpddhdQBv05Pyxd8v-tGsiK-Sm3nr1/w275-h400/Calbee-0006.jpg" width="275" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2005 Calbee #076</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ryan will throw in cards that I'm not expecting - usually these are doubles he has. I was surprised to find this 2022 Sadaharu Oh reprint card in the box - Calbee issued a bunch of reprints of old cards when they were celebrating their 50th Anniversary that year and this reprint of card #237 from the 1973/74 set was included in Series One:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWIaf1zvupK6VwxFFqLQl6QdUFqVlFrzqf5zKS6oh3eMiCMwbMTE4ujcHkteFt6tXhlihHKn1mO4jXweMon07CFnxQaTs5Q-TxmchEVg7e8qOiIi8pBTwdFD8Ybi5kBVSAqlSehdeuNMDWqYuJtkjbXMeZ1c4qcpJ9wErCcpqjCRyWWdO4CUX254_UtJjH/s997/Calbee-0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="997" data-original-width="682" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWIaf1zvupK6VwxFFqLQl6QdUFqVlFrzqf5zKS6oh3eMiCMwbMTE4ujcHkteFt6tXhlihHKn1mO4jXweMon07CFnxQaTs5Q-TxmchEVg7e8qOiIi8pBTwdFD8Ybi5kBVSAqlSehdeuNMDWqYuJtkjbXMeZ1c4qcpJ9wErCcpqjCRyWWdO4CUX254_UtJjH/w274-h400/Calbee-0007.jpg" width="274" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2022 Calbee #M-02</td></tr></tbody></table>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-37874681746497834142024-03-10T12:48:00.000-04:002024-03-10T12:48:21.003-04:00Card Of The Week March 10<p>Last week Samurai Japan played a couple friendly matches against "Team Europe", a collection of players from several European countries, including the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and Germany. On Wednesday, Japan shutout the Europeans 5-0 but the big deal was Thursday's game where six Japanese pitchers combined to throw a perfect game against their Continental opponents. </p><p>This iteration of Samurai Japan included four collegiate players and three of them made their presence known in this game. Yumeto Kanemaru from Kansai University started and threw two innings, striking out four batters. He was relieved by Yuto Nakamura of the Aichi Institute of Technology, who pitched one inning and had one strikeout.</p><p>The professionals took over on the mound in the fourth inning with Shinya Matsuyama of the Dragons and Shota Watanabe of the Eagles both going an inning and striking out one and two batters respectively. Seibu's Chihiro Sumida came on in the sixth and threw an immaculate inning, striking out the side on nine pitches. The European's best chance for a hit came off of Sumida in the next inning when Delano Selassa led off the seventh with a shot to center field that Misho Nishikawa of Aoyama Gakuin University made an amazing diving catch to preserve the perfect game. Sumida struck out the next batter and got the final one to ground out to end his stint on the mound with four strikeouts. Atsuki Taneichi from the Marines was next on the mound and he retired the Europeans in order in the eighth without a strikeout, the only inning of the game in which no Japanese pitcher recorded a strikeout. He made up for it in the ninth, though, when he struck out the side to end the game. The six pitchers combined to strikeout 15 batters in the 2-0 victory.</p><p>I'm very curious to see if Topps does any Topps Now cards for these games like they did for the friendlies against Australia in November of 2022. It would be great to get cards of the collegiate players before they go pro. In the meantime, here's cards of the four NPB pitchers:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIFDhylgNRc-NQB8_tyTaswbrBcS9coACO2YM6FUUlBC2H-Se3U7N0xJ8r7AQZ9p2SPr_7uR-7OE7LsdxnaS5WZAwHEZ8cG54ibe71YlYo0ztyshInJLQriS53S3Ohlrx1tYI_2vIDe-MkCL9UJiwCx7-qrLwaEBbxM9c29JtKYRZAzP7RMRXpyXjRiXc/s1021/COTW-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicIFDhylgNRc-NQB8_tyTaswbrBcS9coACO2YM6FUUlBC2H-Se3U7N0xJ8r7AQZ9p2SPr_7uR-7OE7LsdxnaS5WZAwHEZ8cG54ibe71YlYo0ztyshInJLQriS53S3Ohlrx1tYI_2vIDe-MkCL9UJiwCx7-qrLwaEBbxM9c29JtKYRZAzP7RMRXpyXjRiXc/w289-h400/COTW-0001.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch NPB Luxury Collection #70</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg79ZnHUNlKK6VZmOAL5vQMAqinDwF5i1tnawBx8cxM23PaLRMLyE6N7r2o2F0V0ofjzXymDSJ8wP70G-BKtEO-dpG7n0d6uhsDSb8tm7UJ93mAuWrEAR5pKfn7NcErAN9rPN-jUhHHM1zoadrI_n0R1hhl24oto5Czlo6bIXB5hTDcG0Yt1qpgosWDzLpX/s1021/COTW-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg79ZnHUNlKK6VZmOAL5vQMAqinDwF5i1tnawBx8cxM23PaLRMLyE6N7r2o2F0V0ofjzXymDSJ8wP70G-BKtEO-dpG7n0d6uhsDSb8tm7UJ93mAuWrEAR5pKfn7NcErAN9rPN-jUhHHM1zoadrI_n0R1hhl24oto5Czlo6bIXB5hTDcG0Yt1qpgosWDzLpX/w289-h400/COTW-0002.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM 1st Version #105</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2aJkoqjYqiuiBaBOhffnbPdB8Cp651e8UMxdtWrEzZf7CWUJvjN99UZX7E0KHbMpqMz_yxqdlyby1CCxZMayk1j9edvth_94XpBer7jTvLf4WH4vZAL0HlnX9NaK4irZpgaGdpG1cvOL45dL9ssbDZduBOdT5OUjW56Qd1gkpUand207V8L8CSjxSAJdj/s1021/COTW-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="739" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2aJkoqjYqiuiBaBOhffnbPdB8Cp651e8UMxdtWrEzZf7CWUJvjN99UZX7E0KHbMpqMz_yxqdlyby1CCxZMayk1j9edvth_94XpBer7jTvLf4WH4vZAL0HlnX9NaK4irZpgaGdpG1cvOL45dL9ssbDZduBOdT5OUjW56Qd1gkpUand207V8L8CSjxSAJdj/w290-h400/COTW-0003.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps Now Asian Professional Championship Samurai Japan Team Set #SJ-3</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOnzNa9WGV9P9lqcL5r4ZPrag-50RdZ7PC6VwcmUE5XkFX1ytyy9m-9zudnL8d_uS00yhSBqDITmaGBuW9tWmaq3pBNKVObFvkCP_TF4qQHXN3QBw2AbeuFFD-2nnBmQA-K227VCI5NdkU7ZdSYw3vMbHK9xxelt7OIoqZOJT3DpXSvZ5T7tvR3IrDFO5a/s997/COTW-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="997" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOnzNa9WGV9P9lqcL5r4ZPrag-50RdZ7PC6VwcmUE5XkFX1ytyy9m-9zudnL8d_uS00yhSBqDITmaGBuW9tWmaq3pBNKVObFvkCP_TF4qQHXN3QBw2AbeuFFD-2nnBmQA-K227VCI5NdkU7ZdSYw3vMbHK9xxelt7OIoqZOJT3DpXSvZ5T7tvR3IrDFO5a/w273-h400/COTW-0004.jpg" width="273" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2019 Calbee #173</td></tr></tbody></table>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-86578347517753270762024-03-09T20:49:00.002-05:002024-03-09T20:49:56.963-05:002023 BBM Icons - SamuraiBBM issues an "Icons" box set each March with a different theme each year. Last year's theme was "Samurai" and as that name might suggest, there was a connection between the players in the set and Samurai Japan.<div><br /></div><div>We'll get to that in a minute but first I want to mention that the base set is 36 cards which you could probably guess means that there will be three cards per team. An unopened box contains the base set along with one "special" card which could be an insert card or an autographed card. I, as always, got an opened set from <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> so I only have the base set.</div><div><br /></div><div>With the set being released right around the same time as last year's World Baseball Classic, it will probably come as no surprise that almost half the set are players from the Samurai Japan WBC team - Sosuke Genda, Shota Imanaga, Hiromi Itoh, Takuya Kai, Ryoji Kuribayashi, Shugo Maki, Yuki Matsui, Munetaka Murakami, Kazuma Okamoto, Taisei Ota, Roki Sasaki, Ukyo Shuto, Hiroto Takahashi, Keiji Takahashi, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Soichiro Yamazaki and Atsuki Yuasa. Note that the players are depicted in their NPB uniforms, not their Samurai Japan ones.</div><div><br /></div><div>Most of the other 19 players in the set have suited up for a previous iteration of Samurai Japan. Ryosuke Kikuchi played on the 2017 WBC team while Koji Chikamoto, Shuta Ishikawa, Ryoma Nishikawa and Yasutaka Shiomi were on <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/01/topps-now-samurai-japan-team-set.html" target="_blank">the squad that took on Australia in a pair of friendlies in November of 2022</a>. Many of the other players appeared on collegiate and U-18 Samurai Japan teams before going pro. </div><div><br /></div><div>The set includes eight rookies, all first round picks. <a href="https://www.sportsclick.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=11571" target="_blank">BBM's webpage for the set</a> mentions that it includes "up-and-coming young players and rookies who will be responsible for the future of Samurai Japan" and sure enough, a few of players in the set appeared on <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2024/02/2023-topps-now-asian-professional.html" target="_blank">the Asian Professional Baseball Championship team last November</a> - Takahisa Hayakawa and Shota Morishita.</div><div><br /></div><div>The card design is pretty nice, with a kind of "sun breaking through a crack" image superimposed behind each player. The photos have a little more variety than the standard "batters batting, pitcher pitching" poses (although there's a lot of those as usual). Here's some examples:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOLd3dWUkgBtogjL86IE35JtCyQ_cPGLIuynv1n55HqggnI-kXmJoA8w4R1zACaYbXdEKpr-j6o4yPVBgsRGQ_8yXKN7ss86HhfyXTyJrbz3184o1z2WjoEVbUiYtOxB1PhccJIlFB5OZlRF-LOYZHbtcjWMe_DsCy8blVXkgi0ted3ogMrZryp3JPg8qU/s1021/Icons-0001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOLd3dWUkgBtogjL86IE35JtCyQ_cPGLIuynv1n55HqggnI-kXmJoA8w4R1zACaYbXdEKpr-j6o4yPVBgsRGQ_8yXKN7ss86HhfyXTyJrbz3184o1z2WjoEVbUiYtOxB1PhccJIlFB5OZlRF-LOYZHbtcjWMe_DsCy8blVXkgi0ted3ogMrZryp3JPg8qU/w289-h400/Icons-0001.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#13</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtcIwztnWmDnG_REJnSnEgN7kovw1egTgJJdCGZ3iqS3QTyuuxmSMkWEB37ktEPqAv-xr2lfIbR3Rb6I2zyKp5dqujPqKgPw60qo0DpAGZ8jN-O-amhvdEzBaYHd7FRVSi5m3ED-wvKjJ31zbSNoKjWNjWIsWQYoNzDpE7wpe14SISDTEkbtoCR90ql50/s1021/Icons-0002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimtcIwztnWmDnG_REJnSnEgN7kovw1egTgJJdCGZ3iqS3QTyuuxmSMkWEB37ktEPqAv-xr2lfIbR3Rb6I2zyKp5dqujPqKgPw60qo0DpAGZ8jN-O-amhvdEzBaYHd7FRVSi5m3ED-wvKjJ31zbSNoKjWNjWIsWQYoNzDpE7wpe14SISDTEkbtoCR90ql50/w289-h400/Icons-0002.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#34</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWA3dIqcKKWQZW6_pxUyMrIBvE_GVD4PeJiO2TgUZEN-xcjR2BuDCYQQoKkKOMjlgjVvGRXmYQBQSrmbePlrzORCrfhzEKTiqggm6KJiqR0PmH5yO9tsT8Jdy-ZGEmgxUKAsCEe-vfhS6Jgk6qQVvXxZK6ijHPs-PgdUSeQDquA1X08NV8CAU-WsAHX8oh/s1021/Icons-0003.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="735" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWA3dIqcKKWQZW6_pxUyMrIBvE_GVD4PeJiO2TgUZEN-xcjR2BuDCYQQoKkKOMjlgjVvGRXmYQBQSrmbePlrzORCrfhzEKTiqggm6KJiqR0PmH5yO9tsT8Jdy-ZGEmgxUKAsCEe-vfhS6Jgk6qQVvXxZK6ijHPs-PgdUSeQDquA1X08NV8CAU-WsAHX8oh/w288-h400/Icons-0003.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#26</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3S7rVHpeqVpLw07WIK9Hi8MpMQypIvO_62ea8WPobdFNJa05eiMWMMecKvBD-kRd2Ivf2n5m854IBI8jOFpWqqhg5UzBJlDDuMhM-5allyinPJJlGO4kNjbuM9-uNZ9l-tbkS5KRaaVqexNmcYto_fluxqtWfKy8AHpnU8neA9ueHj1XJhgfFF5FI9eya/s1021/Icons-0004.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="735" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3S7rVHpeqVpLw07WIK9Hi8MpMQypIvO_62ea8WPobdFNJa05eiMWMMecKvBD-kRd2Ivf2n5m854IBI8jOFpWqqhg5UzBJlDDuMhM-5allyinPJJlGO4kNjbuM9-uNZ9l-tbkS5KRaaVqexNmcYto_fluxqtWfKy8AHpnU8neA9ueHj1XJhgfFF5FI9eya/w288-h400/Icons-0004.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#02</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgf5IpdoRFvxQd3h1Ta6L57oF6HEIqVH9UCKG29BEaZ6whn4NTRKNVh9sqYE1k8gK95XDspt73slQbiloIsRLylXAmdnTj0hQ23v3C8PrmqgnlSCM6Wy2SHuYpCuNuDw29whQirm6PPa6dqqvQD5ROCYT1HOQns0rrREHmS2Hy7QBqKP6qsSM5Zv9p7uF/s1021/Icons-0005.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgf5IpdoRFvxQd3h1Ta6L57oF6HEIqVH9UCKG29BEaZ6whn4NTRKNVh9sqYE1k8gK95XDspt73slQbiloIsRLylXAmdnTj0hQ23v3C8PrmqgnlSCM6Wy2SHuYpCuNuDw29whQirm6PPa6dqqvQD5ROCYT1HOQns0rrREHmS2Hy7QBqKP6qsSM5Zv9p7uF/w289-h400/Icons-0005.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">#10</span></h3></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9yhCNve2qAn1BKNxTJKyH-aaStzgBcPKZCTHLsJi_IoODb4GAMql86RjZcPIAwnlaf_N0xwt01viK-TU2tNkw88kxIyn-nkeUDOxkKRiJHOS0Rb3Phwfao43-797Sc4AOCuqEUjtDsAX8WLJpNga_dCQsyxr6gieosCrSSagoNYfRse5s8hBH7_jQ99C/s1021/Icons-0006.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="735" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9yhCNve2qAn1BKNxTJKyH-aaStzgBcPKZCTHLsJi_IoODb4GAMql86RjZcPIAwnlaf_N0xwt01viK-TU2tNkw88kxIyn-nkeUDOxkKRiJHOS0Rb3Phwfao43-797Sc4AOCuqEUjtDsAX8WLJpNga_dCQsyxr6gieosCrSSagoNYfRse5s8hBH7_jQ99C/w288-h400/Icons-0006.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#24</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>All in all, I like the set. I think the design is less busy than <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/03/2022-bbm-icons-rough-diamond.html" target="_blank">last year's set</a> and it's an interesting collection of players. As always, you can see all the cards over at <a href="https://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/jambalaya/bbm2023ico.html" target="_blank">Jambalaya</a>.</div>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-34366507447178546552024-03-08T22:16:00.001-05:002024-03-08T22:16:23.816-05:002022 Epoch Japan Retired Foreign Player Association Set<p>Back to the cards <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> sent me a few weeks ago...</p><p>Epoch teamed up with the Japan Retired Foreign Player Association (JRFPA) for a boxed set of cards featuring - as you might expect - a bunch of retired foreign players. This is the second such set that Epoch and JRFPA have collaborated on - <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2021/10/2021-epoch-japan-retired-foreign-player.html" target="_blank">the first was in 2021</a>. This set was supposed to be released in 2022 but it ended up delayed until February of 2023. (Technically this is the third JRFPA set as they did <a href="https://target.co.jp/shopdetail/000000017039/ct256/page3/order/" target="_blank">a "mini colored paper" set</a> with Produce 216 (or Hits or whatever their name is) in 2022 featuring OB Carp players.)</p><p>Each box contained 41 cards - the 39 card base set plus (I think) a parallel card and an autographed card. As always, I just got the base set. </p><p>The player selection is...interesting. On the one hand, you've got the players who played in Japan long enough to no longer count as foreign players - Leon and Leron Lee, Tuffy Rhodes and Randy Messenger - along with players who made big impacts in shorter amounts of time such as Bobby Rose, Ralph Bryant, Alonzo Powell, Roberto Petagine, Kris Johnson, Jose Fernandez and Tom O'Malley. On the other hand, you've got a bunch of guys who played for a year or less - Bryant Nelson (54 games), Kevin Mitchell (37 games), Rusty Ryal (33 games), Jonny Gomes (18 games), Mike Greenwell (7 games) and Mike Campbell* (3 games with the Baystars farm team). No offense to any of those guys but I'm not sure there's been a big demand for Japanese cards of any of them**. Trey Hillman is included in the set for his time as Fighters manager (2003-07). Marty Brown is included as a Carp player but not as manager of the Carp (2006-09) or Eagles (2010).</p><p><i>*Campbell's biggest claim to fame was being the player-to-be-named later included with Mark Langston in the trade between the Expos and Mariners that brought Randy Johnson to Seattle in 1989.</i></p><p><i>**OK to be fair, there's probably SOME curiosity out there for Japanese cards of Mitchell and Greenwell.</i></p><p>Eight of the guys in the set were in the 2021 set - Bryant, Andruw Jones, Leon Lee, Messenger, Alex Ochoa, Carlos Ponce, Rhodes and Matt Winters. Twenty players or just over half the set were included in one or both of the foreign player sets that BBM did back in 2013 ("<a href="http://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2013/02/2013-bbm-legendary-foreigner-set.html" target="_blank">Legendary Foreigners</a>" and "<a href="http://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2013/10/2013-bbm-deep-impact-set.html" target="_blank">Deep Impact</a>") - Benny Agbayani, Brown, Bryant, Melvin Bunch, Fernandez, Eddie Gaillard, Greenwell, Hillman, Greg Larocca, both Lee brothers, Mitchell, O'Malley, Ochoa, Petagine, Ponce, Powell, Rhodes, Rose and Winters. The Gomes card is one of only three for his brief tenure with the Eagles - the others being a card given away with <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2016/06/sports-card-magazine-117.html" target="_blank">Sports Card Magazine #117</a> and a card in the 2016 team issued Eagles set.</p><p>The photo selection is pretty generic, mostly "batters batting, pitchers pitching" photos (and a "manager managing" photo for Hillman). The older photos aren't grainy which is a nice change of pace from some of BBM's photo selections. The one thing I think is kind of odd is that the background of the photos of Leon and Leron Lee appear to be in black-an-white (which was also the case with Leon's card in the 2021 set). I don't like the card design as much as I liked the 2021 set but it's not bad. Here's some example cards:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhquK3hY60itcBOYfhyphenhyphenM0gdB1qjNBo02I6A-tkfRjXSVp5iv3MM02e0m5CUhTtS4G-LEd7u-wiWqzy3wndfQMnBJEnAcBKioiiFeJSiqeXZ0oK6eHHq03r3wAr6k88FXdr_oHb-ZbSupMulQ4HBWAysqMLi0U5AkurWs4erpZkgjd6x-Tv5X6n-y6uTEN5r/s1021/JRFPA-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhquK3hY60itcBOYfhyphenhyphenM0gdB1qjNBo02I6A-tkfRjXSVp5iv3MM02e0m5CUhTtS4G-LEd7u-wiWqzy3wndfQMnBJEnAcBKioiiFeJSiqeXZ0oK6eHHq03r3wAr6k88FXdr_oHb-ZbSupMulQ4HBWAysqMLi0U5AkurWs4erpZkgjd6x-Tv5X6n-y6uTEN5r/w291-h400/JRFPA-0001.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#03</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUAp1itoZI5z42YVbgz0atB5uR3d9eu5weUMjbarNG5KqyM2gw6PA_fH0kN_PowThyOzZ3WApgp3B9spc5AAQdslAy3qF5XyI4LlF79tfCW8dycLYe1JU9abQSLxKLbY1cOPXvFhx4AmP7kg9zeeOW4c8DkTB5ZuKCx8NkBRvnOJK7IWRfAO5S8sxLRNm/s1021/JRFPA-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMUAp1itoZI5z42YVbgz0atB5uR3d9eu5weUMjbarNG5KqyM2gw6PA_fH0kN_PowThyOzZ3WApgp3B9spc5AAQdslAy3qF5XyI4LlF79tfCW8dycLYe1JU9abQSLxKLbY1cOPXvFhx4AmP7kg9zeeOW4c8DkTB5ZuKCx8NkBRvnOJK7IWRfAO5S8sxLRNm/w291-h400/JRFPA-0002.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#13</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3X1Rkl6etgPgiK8XLDNIMGO_lp9VCGAJjr4gtAGY2TAvESQkW7eDHqLx0Ab4PDkgL3lcFrASR3tcGP4dsKODv9oJrYhLwCd9XUV7XKn7UEq_be2IP35gixY8_Hnu0fX_tZLaXvhDqDFa1cR8Ce1-pnPYx9uXta-VmxrKpoycZCR8jeAItDi22HkZecje/s1021/JRFPA-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf3X1Rkl6etgPgiK8XLDNIMGO_lp9VCGAJjr4gtAGY2TAvESQkW7eDHqLx0Ab4PDkgL3lcFrASR3tcGP4dsKODv9oJrYhLwCd9XUV7XKn7UEq_be2IP35gixY8_Hnu0fX_tZLaXvhDqDFa1cR8Ce1-pnPYx9uXta-VmxrKpoycZCR8jeAItDi22HkZecje/w291-h400/JRFPA-0003.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#18</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUXwnNxOkKkr9g5nn9aJFbSDCv4v7dCte-S9w_r7g7IULoMlaVhdgntzfZHiqig5bCQ1Sf_NWMJKbLPpEry-QaI81rUi_nEBbI3UfCt3hoIavl4Yugq-wkmFxFFabdDRhssR28Hh7CVRRBTr7maXnnTiIHFUbnigkhMmIBj_frkv46q2CPHFSvBuQEX7p/s1021/JRFPA-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUXwnNxOkKkr9g5nn9aJFbSDCv4v7dCte-S9w_r7g7IULoMlaVhdgntzfZHiqig5bCQ1Sf_NWMJKbLPpEry-QaI81rUi_nEBbI3UfCt3hoIavl4Yugq-wkmFxFFabdDRhssR28Hh7CVRRBTr7maXnnTiIHFUbnigkhMmIBj_frkv46q2CPHFSvBuQEX7p/w291-h400/JRFPA-0004.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#22</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheyWMmn8yMue1YXTV3i49CjPkahyxEsnvMBkztjPM6_Nr6xyil7xlAsu5vXOdCRYpb4eqqtctpaaAnpKlbAjkIJSMNMUuR6fxQ4RVAZM5eQa3dwaITLn96C8LmdSVLO2hLhpyFBul-N2UF8exVGuxdE9m-p1DKVA3Ewd1dDqAmzbIgNNUGa7FGzGF5EzPc/s1021/JRFPA-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheyWMmn8yMue1YXTV3i49CjPkahyxEsnvMBkztjPM6_Nr6xyil7xlAsu5vXOdCRYpb4eqqtctpaaAnpKlbAjkIJSMNMUuR6fxQ4RVAZM5eQa3dwaITLn96C8LmdSVLO2hLhpyFBul-N2UF8exVGuxdE9m-p1DKVA3Ewd1dDqAmzbIgNNUGa7FGzGF5EzPc/w291-h400/JRFPA-0005.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#34</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQpmHiBMKl_qHP11aw4SWjgcUffVB_87atB6jANZR-3Tpst07u7LsKMdxiPchQvWvpJhjHiqhOjRYcPIEtL5DKH4rrllznEKrz5bKFxshjbWPQbLWhUzT6DMvbCR5q3IwjZ58Az0i1jZXioZOzvqxSM5z_hCOUW5BQLy9f5f5K6BowYd5sMER09LH1ka3f/s1021/JRFPA-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQpmHiBMKl_qHP11aw4SWjgcUffVB_87atB6jANZR-3Tpst07u7LsKMdxiPchQvWvpJhjHiqhOjRYcPIEtL5DKH4rrllznEKrz5bKFxshjbWPQbLWhUzT6DMvbCR5q3IwjZ58Az0i1jZXioZOzvqxSM5z_hCOUW5BQLy9f5f5K6BowYd5sMER09LH1ka3f/w291-h400/JRFPA-0006.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#35</td></tr></tbody></table><p>You may have detected that I'm kind of feeling "meh" about this set. I think part of that is simply that I already have cards of all these players on all these teams so I don't feel like it's really adding anything to my collection. Obviously others may feel differently and there's nothing really wrong with the set.</p><p>I don't think that I'll get another edition of this set unless they really put together an interesting collection of players. One thing that would be nice is for them to get some foreign players who didn't have any Japanese cards ever (Rich Gossage, Floyd Bannister, Alvin Davis, Bobby Tolan), only had cards in Takara sets (Danny Goodwin) or at least hasn't been in a dozen sets in the last ten years.</p><p>As usual, all the cards can be seen over at <a href="https://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/jambalaya/aa55ae2eca5.html" target="_blank">Jambalaya</a>.</p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-66459421981917610802024-03-08T17:19:00.003-05:002024-03-08T17:19:59.039-05:00Mailday!<p>My wife and I were out of town for a week's vacation and when we got home yesterday (well, late Wednesday night actually), I had two packages from friends waiting for me. I thought I'd get back into the swing of posting by doing a quick one about the cards I got.</p><p>First up is a package from <a href="https://www.ebay.com/str/jkscardshoppe" target="_blank">Jason</a>. He asked me a few weeks back if I was interested in a particular card he had. I said yes and then found another three that he was selling on Ebay that I also wanted. He named a price, I sent him the money and he sent me the cards along with some bonus goodies. Here's the first half of the cards that I knew I was getting:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkNCdDuDmcnLmpH99w7VHky_w06O_fnxGraRZE29O63C7S0Kem0qs4R6YSLMLcMOrIyhJu_KexnmXdkcPqU3wLX1G75tvRZh43BSWPwWO-8YgGfke4ZoBQSr5YKis8D0ZpBuR5LneYk6QbbDx8IyiCuExVn9lHrkEHPSASr_OyYt4xEp4XnYJvITdSs2ZR/s1021/MailDay-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkNCdDuDmcnLmpH99w7VHky_w06O_fnxGraRZE29O63C7S0Kem0qs4R6YSLMLcMOrIyhJu_KexnmXdkcPqU3wLX1G75tvRZh43BSWPwWO-8YgGfke4ZoBQSr5YKis8D0ZpBuR5LneYk6QbbDx8IyiCuExVn9lHrkEHPSASr_OyYt4xEp4XnYJvITdSs2ZR/w400-h290/MailDay-0001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch Swallows Premier Edition #AA-MI</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEwNUgJYWIiipks5cDs-5grepIRSVAPHwSL4ToTMSk0Ij1jHevlDSC-0EIXCOk8VQ0mpVOZvJSD8CabCSwBsHtWo1HfKy9UmzJdi7mASqir4eIDEEBhhAwaTPPsurjo-SRrtxko6ZME9ueFmw5tQq_0-kW_obYcy8J-zxAsHLIzVPJ87b9reQ3icUojS3A/s1021/MailDay-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEwNUgJYWIiipks5cDs-5grepIRSVAPHwSL4ToTMSk0Ij1jHevlDSC-0EIXCOk8VQ0mpVOZvJSD8CabCSwBsHtWo1HfKy9UmzJdi7mASqir4eIDEEBhhAwaTPPsurjo-SRrtxko6ZME9ueFmw5tQq_0-kW_obYcy8J-zxAsHLIzVPJ87b9reQ3icUojS3A/w400-h289/MailDay-0002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 BBM Genesis</td></tr></tbody></table><p>That Ishikawa auto has a nice print run!</p><p>I spend a lot of time beating on Topps' NPB sets so it's kind of odd that I'm working on a project with them. I've decided that I want to try to get a "stadium background" parallel card from the <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2024/01/topps-206.html" target="_blank">2023 206 set</a> for all twelve teams. The card Jason had initially offered me was Koji Chikamoto with Koshien Stadium in the background and he also had a Kazuma Okamoto card with the Tokyo Dome:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVpxH8ycu9vxdNlo7H6I7Pn16NvViqPGKRdNX4NuyQ8vX9FGtgSPPk-0YzESIJIXA2uYey44PoiBHez4-462LSgrm9gcIiM1ZyMQjvDl0LYx3IcfWXeg1yfJt38vOIrCSd8IdVyL_TU4TDlbCzKEQD0cJgp6TYmxEtVZekZ9ZXZgx3RU9efrT6cU9__k6c/s1021/MailDay-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVpxH8ycu9vxdNlo7H6I7Pn16NvViqPGKRdNX4NuyQ8vX9FGtgSPPk-0YzESIJIXA2uYey44PoiBHez4-462LSgrm9gcIiM1ZyMQjvDl0LYx3IcfWXeg1yfJt38vOIrCSd8IdVyL_TU4TDlbCzKEQD0cJgp6TYmxEtVZekZ9ZXZgx3RU9efrT6cU9__k6c/w289-h400/MailDay-0003.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #107</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG2qPitkkEiSHJHIUzsijVA1J3Io3IOuNUN61Ho1LhuSzENorVGXZ5OaZbHlFKqsbZcC4We5pJ0ddRsbqZS1PlsaaVLymlwlemkO76Hn8m9fr-OXPBwTiP93GTZNVlugJ_ia1XR7bLy-nfe9Af7XiGIe4UJNryjZ7JIHrZMxsJwh6nHMFxYI8TfRw0R1o3/s1021/MailDay-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG2qPitkkEiSHJHIUzsijVA1J3Io3IOuNUN61Ho1LhuSzENorVGXZ5OaZbHlFKqsbZcC4We5pJ0ddRsbqZS1PlsaaVLymlwlemkO76Hn8m9fr-OXPBwTiP93GTZNVlugJ_ia1XR7bLy-nfe9Af7XiGIe4UJNryjZ7JIHrZMxsJwh6nHMFxYI8TfRw0R1o3/w289-h400/MailDay-0004.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #130</td></tr></tbody></table><p>With these two, I'm now halfway there. I have the Tigers, Carp, Buffaloes, Lions, Eagles and Giants so I still need the Marines, Dragons, Hawks, Fighters, Swallows and Baystars.</p><p>I mentioned that Jason had thrown in a bunch of extra cards. I'll group them in two groups. First there were a random bunch of 2022 and 2023 Epoch cards:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYyxo7TmW7Iq6dN9nFk-9h8uIGnxQpUR95K37_rJY6Ll3Zy9mALZs5XzVx00uzcEBc1gGnoRIBSfCLym9IC8QfyZvJY5lLpunDZAyIz6ira1IHT7LcGFpnke6EWkwjEtzGVmB7Lmmhx6juDenqzjTvxNkVsCAnpN0a4H7VH97-IT3RCWpbm0iI7AdsTrpt/s1021/MailDay-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYyxo7TmW7Iq6dN9nFk-9h8uIGnxQpUR95K37_rJY6Ll3Zy9mALZs5XzVx00uzcEBc1gGnoRIBSfCLym9IC8QfyZvJY5lLpunDZAyIz6ira1IHT7LcGFpnke6EWkwjEtzGVmB7Lmmhx6juDenqzjTvxNkVsCAnpN0a4H7VH97-IT3RCWpbm0iI7AdsTrpt/w289-h400/MailDay-0005.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2022 Epoch NPB Luxury Collection #101</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhECR4y5BV-GLwi4wSaD3dhj5YeRQ92EVbTyDXcnW1PnFNexIs12kx9pgEgksj-3RcLMtFd9PKQ05EIJ-YzTJpg4uDAOXLc5F3TB4jyNLXQmA3VAWIejySaThVJbzWK0gbilFaQmVMQTRxq9Hfa-SnPQy5l8VIVW7ZntfRNYyMa0N_xhxhODz0T6xSpKTcr/s1021/MailDay-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhECR4y5BV-GLwi4wSaD3dhj5YeRQ92EVbTyDXcnW1PnFNexIs12kx9pgEgksj-3RcLMtFd9PKQ05EIJ-YzTJpg4uDAOXLc5F3TB4jyNLXQmA3VAWIejySaThVJbzWK0gbilFaQmVMQTRxq9Hfa-SnPQy5l8VIVW7ZntfRNYyMa0N_xhxhODz0T6xSpKTcr/w289-h400/MailDay-0006.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2022 Epoch NPB Luxury Collection #004</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSoNAeBizXbo8x3RAR5sZT-785UjIUS9ofogrXezW2TIMq2sATH4X568nhe-JJVy5acbj0iut4Rf_uSCr-l2jIDpkOusDZqIN4Cfy00Oe67y-YUBrUjFJdG9wKg7vJGhT3Te9iLH37Q3NLUp4jwqttJJ-ws0wPznurS7FQgtH0c4o7l2eEGxY8mLGmZhxg/s1021/MailDay-0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSoNAeBizXbo8x3RAR5sZT-785UjIUS9ofogrXezW2TIMq2sATH4X568nhe-JJVy5acbj0iut4Rf_uSCr-l2jIDpkOusDZqIN4Cfy00Oe67y-YUBrUjFJdG9wKg7vJGhT3Te9iLH37Q3NLUp4jwqttJJ-ws0wPznurS7FQgtH0c4o7l2eEGxY8mLGmZhxg/w289-h400/MailDay-0007.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2022 Epoch NPB Luxury Collection #048</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPB3Kgcq01Jh1gV2Ey3qcSZK4GZP239hoEXvu7MLd7uhAFnIzoqym1r6RG_go3dyfrWyCmrn26alpauPSmc4j5ohsF70KS8dyCszzxF5O2KupPc5V_4ArSAEUdPL_di2lhltSLdlqLzDUXGxzF4IwsB1HiLfDh-kiJT6PMNDsUQYDOjZcuN-Z0uk97kGqi/s1021/MailDay-0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPB3Kgcq01Jh1gV2Ey3qcSZK4GZP239hoEXvu7MLd7uhAFnIzoqym1r6RG_go3dyfrWyCmrn26alpauPSmc4j5ohsF70KS8dyCszzxF5O2KupPc5V_4ArSAEUdPL_di2lhltSLdlqLzDUXGxzF4IwsB1HiLfDh-kiJT6PMNDsUQYDOjZcuN-Z0uk97kGqi/w291-h400/MailDay-0008.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch Carp Premier Edition #38</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1fLrNKsSMYhyphenhyphenU1qquJoIUE3FD8tMwOfeHT2VWNzUAQt37CuH6wNDiM6YuRJ1T2JGlrZknZ_hqS9N6ippxb4p_e-O61equ3aa5P5mjX4O-27JBgAfh6uUHGoRAGTMkovlQQpd0NtAAmsjNJ9Dsvhsqe7x_UrpaXbSzGTK1OtXeuMTFcaIhNqbQFIAoBkat/s1021/MailDay-0009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1fLrNKsSMYhyphenhyphenU1qquJoIUE3FD8tMwOfeHT2VWNzUAQt37CuH6wNDiM6YuRJ1T2JGlrZknZ_hqS9N6ippxb4p_e-O61equ3aa5P5mjX4O-27JBgAfh6uUHGoRAGTMkovlQQpd0NtAAmsjNJ9Dsvhsqe7x_UrpaXbSzGTK1OtXeuMTFcaIhNqbQFIAoBkat/w289-h400/MailDay-0009.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch Buffaloes Premier Edition #01</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQVxiIw90OZAuY2HBpEN-U0OaLRmwfide1qdMZ90N83ZP8PCcvKM8jWlE8naySQomX_AIBv52qZjZRYb_obwDQqLdA6jNVQ1a6zENHyxuMHVxuO7HAzqAQEq_NiVJy81kaiS2LE39ztvKYATGtd12I4MxoJRKZrrSqQAYAhyphenhyphenw9prMGBP8o5W9J8Rxiw3-S/s1021/MailDay-0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQVxiIw90OZAuY2HBpEN-U0OaLRmwfide1qdMZ90N83ZP8PCcvKM8jWlE8naySQomX_AIBv52qZjZRYb_obwDQqLdA6jNVQ1a6zENHyxuMHVxuO7HAzqAQEq_NiVJy81kaiS2LE39ztvKYATGtd12I4MxoJRKZrrSqQAYAhyphenhyphenw9prMGBP8o5W9J8Rxiw3-S/w289-h400/MailDay-0010.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch Buffaloes Premier Edition #15</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvGyC9bySDnmqopiXz5Ybpn-EhdeOGX8ggQQ16Mt8DDdBEkZJNgBGcxk6ssmAVQHkz3bFpIYOZW9R8bKPIPD4Es-CTM9yBWsJ8P3REfkp6p3Vn43TUOV2Qzr1iCxluJrVLOR5HTjzLMy9hQIuQ7wEXITn-bMwItz4EosiQ7pgQR9B0Pgn2Od38KXMbX1gJ/s1021/MailDay-0011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvGyC9bySDnmqopiXz5Ybpn-EhdeOGX8ggQQ16Mt8DDdBEkZJNgBGcxk6ssmAVQHkz3bFpIYOZW9R8bKPIPD4Es-CTM9yBWsJ8P3REfkp6p3Vn43TUOV2Qzr1iCxluJrVLOR5HTjzLMy9hQIuQ7wEXITn-bMwItz4EosiQ7pgQR9B0Pgn2Od38KXMbX1gJ/w289-h400/MailDay-0011.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch Buffaloes Premier Edition #40</td></tr></tbody></table><p>That Norichika Aoki card is a parallel but I don't know which of the several the set had it is.</p><p>Lastly there were a bunch of the tobacco-sized Topps 206 cards - Jason is attempting to complete the set so he sent me a handful of his extras:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91GV6z2mgYbK0CaOsX8H4EiUBCWziS9JzSxXE3PrT_MuEY30_OIWa_blLbXtunD0s3F28N6sbVYWdIVcyCe4Iuv70xqvgl2Ut8STjSdRI9JvY_e0sJPIrCE1pV00-p-aMYBpvw30Tr6C7Cithh33uP06UR4CphJxbjXYyfCXnQkYUuk4IflmM1mctVwCA/s787/MailDay-0012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="426" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91GV6z2mgYbK0CaOsX8H4EiUBCWziS9JzSxXE3PrT_MuEY30_OIWa_blLbXtunD0s3F28N6sbVYWdIVcyCe4Iuv70xqvgl2Ut8STjSdRI9JvY_e0sJPIrCE1pV00-p-aMYBpvw30Tr6C7Cithh33uP06UR4CphJxbjXYyfCXnQkYUuk4IflmM1mctVwCA/w216-h400/MailDay-0012.jpg" width="216" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #50 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOl0I45UDZWnDLj4avcokCWan-MaSVW_hmb9E_2HL9yVdn8wyDfiE75c12T8Mb-Hn6OgWLZw26-H0pS16cpsNZhsNKLB8dfsxYBiNtPl7moVaVJusl1LPgUzpKv6cpDRjfhxKA2wEET0GVRD4TiWM1lGepg85brYCYs90gf1lDZ224JdpyxR5vqOdLVGeJ/s788/MailDay-0013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="428" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOl0I45UDZWnDLj4avcokCWan-MaSVW_hmb9E_2HL9yVdn8wyDfiE75c12T8Mb-Hn6OgWLZw26-H0pS16cpsNZhsNKLB8dfsxYBiNtPl7moVaVJusl1LPgUzpKv6cpDRjfhxKA2wEET0GVRD4TiWM1lGepg85brYCYs90gf1lDZ224JdpyxR5vqOdLVGeJ/w217-h400/MailDay-0013.jpg" width="217" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #100 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA2iD7Zow-qdgc1OXuFB7s5PuG1Zhch8KRzX1_edJUa_YoVHTtRE_nxUbMV-9MkpIxaLq2u-WabdzH0-HnXNMWbQ0sg8iITOqY3JabKIejD93LZCqTKpgJnG251VPvGANTCT0nl25IOYaIx13XfA-j5LWq60_4y1Te5Q16L2zXggxi5kwupw6WYOHyCHLN/s787/MailDay-0014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="424" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA2iD7Zow-qdgc1OXuFB7s5PuG1Zhch8KRzX1_edJUa_YoVHTtRE_nxUbMV-9MkpIxaLq2u-WabdzH0-HnXNMWbQ0sg8iITOqY3JabKIejD93LZCqTKpgJnG251VPvGANTCT0nl25IOYaIx13XfA-j5LWq60_4y1Te5Q16L2zXggxi5kwupw6WYOHyCHLN/w215-h400/MailDay-0014.jpg" width="215" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #154 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQ816EHINdcsrSiP4Jg-CQck93C8Knx6ZyA3U6ABEBCzLwOE2I_ZhuM581-4KL6BCjJzNrROaBvBVryNKnVEvkOuvE_W3dCoCjz78ODfCKVVmmW1l2hFilLffgkJuf5abUz7q4xikT8IZGJGAn3QJVLzufar7cdY9Zf54VELWO204r5_bOKtAEZFInNgm/s789/MailDay-0015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="428" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQ816EHINdcsrSiP4Jg-CQck93C8Knx6ZyA3U6ABEBCzLwOE2I_ZhuM581-4KL6BCjJzNrROaBvBVryNKnVEvkOuvE_W3dCoCjz78ODfCKVVmmW1l2hFilLffgkJuf5abUz7q4xikT8IZGJGAn3QJVLzufar7cdY9Zf54VELWO204r5_bOKtAEZFInNgm/w217-h400/MailDay-0015.jpg" width="217" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #172 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcnlSEbn4HxxN2Hj5criX4gJLz2KEimEGqDLcWo0OSmNgzoSfR12h1k9XBpUU8wvrs2vyunTduC_DuWo9XbDeM5Pq9GbpfByHVPPRvqx-Ab_xkvwX9NPeauMDW1S-mpymWqtdQq-4vM7uViBaZpn9wSGDXK3RtDE8TpBGvsHnJz2UKQ2IMcgwf1VwawKQ4/s786/MailDay-0016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="427" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcnlSEbn4HxxN2Hj5criX4gJLz2KEimEGqDLcWo0OSmNgzoSfR12h1k9XBpUU8wvrs2vyunTduC_DuWo9XbDeM5Pq9GbpfByHVPPRvqx-Ab_xkvwX9NPeauMDW1S-mpymWqtdQq-4vM7uViBaZpn9wSGDXK3RtDE8TpBGvsHnJz2UKQ2IMcgwf1VwawKQ4/w217-h400/MailDay-0016.jpg" width="217" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #197 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjurFUMkINsDcld6BuzNUVMPrAFqscRouZO8wpOqMtoFreI5MqB5KP3zKQQX6nY07cIN3fHM2Ts_JQwuYoms9t0zAd8Ra9OCSQrgp2rQs2SVGGWZ6zv2IzVK7KHWY_W1m-air8fqJJC2Zj_SltnZfBLLPFHbZQWwdBykdk3Hm3N3bosge1YSTxJ2YHKHIWh/s789/MailDay-0017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="427" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjurFUMkINsDcld6BuzNUVMPrAFqscRouZO8wpOqMtoFreI5MqB5KP3zKQQX6nY07cIN3fHM2Ts_JQwuYoms9t0zAd8Ra9OCSQrgp2rQs2SVGGWZ6zv2IzVK7KHWY_W1m-air8fqJJC2Zj_SltnZfBLLPFHbZQWwdBykdk3Hm3N3bosge1YSTxJ2YHKHIWh/w216-h400/MailDay-0017.jpg" width="216" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #126 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPD_fY2x24azoTh0yU0XNBs0yAuXqnQgfzzasEtdO1CQLcfbgu3mEowakvnGZKdUNRDm2vdbJiIS6nA9SOP_RNXTXDX-scgLHlR_JyQdmQOdLPuWtwK_LIZTtDG0LvJlKdQbbCHEoV6DsIHRloP3jIcLyQAQtQd95JD6lqOtNk_It7KmIXJwLKgOImTL2O/s788/MailDay-0018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="424" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPD_fY2x24azoTh0yU0XNBs0yAuXqnQgfzzasEtdO1CQLcfbgu3mEowakvnGZKdUNRDm2vdbJiIS6nA9SOP_RNXTXDX-scgLHlR_JyQdmQOdLPuWtwK_LIZTtDG0LvJlKdQbbCHEoV6DsIHRloP3jIcLyQAQtQd95JD6lqOtNk_It7KmIXJwLKgOImTL2O/w215-h400/MailDay-0018.jpg" width="215" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #118 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-yfhgSB2HnIhf9Uv-vhyphenhyphen0A7_wbA9KVkyUuLMoJlo9xDOJQ_U69EToycj5Oenj9xXGouJsIPZDSRGXFoUfRmCbpCXpTaneguy3ZYOzw926lgv-3PqwRR6UevCklobqIQhScLZCfehGcKOaHR_Cf4cbLQtUvaXDCzM6HlWeXZsfDZBqRPrWET3siKpLDwcu/s793/MailDay-0019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="428" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-yfhgSB2HnIhf9Uv-vhyphenhyphen0A7_wbA9KVkyUuLMoJlo9xDOJQ_U69EToycj5Oenj9xXGouJsIPZDSRGXFoUfRmCbpCXpTaneguy3ZYOzw926lgv-3PqwRR6UevCklobqIQhScLZCfehGcKOaHR_Cf4cbLQtUvaXDCzM6HlWeXZsfDZBqRPrWET3siKpLDwcu/w216-h400/MailDay-0019.jpg" width="216" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #77 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrxr_rVuVuAqMZ-zV1_PHQr_KaXbj3vj96Wtk11MIv4_LgRY_O8xILYTVjW8zsUoAZlvdnksXwCwsb3oAuImVyFV84pewAJ_FPYqFuhx75CfvVE7sy8AMvw6YgrtqUTx73ArCVUrFYXkg-yrW9iQRfR-bwXy62PVS9OKe3vhSCFvgigaiojHoDJfDxUGnz/s787/MailDay-0020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="427" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrxr_rVuVuAqMZ-zV1_PHQr_KaXbj3vj96Wtk11MIv4_LgRY_O8xILYTVjW8zsUoAZlvdnksXwCwsb3oAuImVyFV84pewAJ_FPYqFuhx75CfvVE7sy8AMvw6YgrtqUTx73ArCVUrFYXkg-yrW9iQRfR-bwXy62PVS9OKe3vhSCFvgigaiojHoDJfDxUGnz/w217-h400/MailDay-0020.jpg" width="217" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #38 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwySgohu7eKOIgMu_SwECr42l4Y3BJPaS6TC68-NDbnVFRN_-9uyv4hPQ61NtqDl3Pzjx8D_gKpvzQhjZTowgCZdYyXKBjbANq727ChPjAt24WCDmPkjy0IvSFfQwEx3wHv-5ExbRXBu6WgOrr4c1Lt7_huGoLpgc27eY72wWFfqDZZ_dtsgJ62fNUnOXM/s789/MailDay-0021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="426" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwySgohu7eKOIgMu_SwECr42l4Y3BJPaS6TC68-NDbnVFRN_-9uyv4hPQ61NtqDl3Pzjx8D_gKpvzQhjZTowgCZdYyXKBjbANq727ChPjAt24WCDmPkjy0IvSFfQwEx3wHv-5ExbRXBu6WgOrr4c1Lt7_huGoLpgc27eY72wWFfqDZZ_dtsgJ62fNUnOXM/w216-h400/MailDay-0021.jpg" width="216" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #32 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk2WyW_umbPNzNo9Qw0krSgCjcwFhOCvGKHnfbWbgK7rLmrnJq5MCoPtOyFG0L7rBNmqnKyXitjoFmwgw5pvCw2tzkqx_a2PI-4mInwULOTKp9Pay3Xg_BRAW1xG2guaUGxbwoVaNaCU_Tc5zjP5VPgQGC5zsgos74SWZzUycfBc61wyVldaQ7vMcwNrs_/s785/MailDay-0022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="430" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk2WyW_umbPNzNo9Qw0krSgCjcwFhOCvGKHnfbWbgK7rLmrnJq5MCoPtOyFG0L7rBNmqnKyXitjoFmwgw5pvCw2tzkqx_a2PI-4mInwULOTKp9Pay3Xg_BRAW1xG2guaUGxbwoVaNaCU_Tc5zjP5VPgQGC5zsgos74SWZzUycfBc61wyVldaQ7vMcwNrs_/w219-h400/MailDay-0022.jpg" width="219" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Topps 206 #13 mini</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The other package I got was from Dan, aka <a href="https://koreancardboard.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Korean Cardboard</a>. <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/11/japanese-cards-from-korea.html" target="_blank">I had bought some 1997 BBM Diamond Heroes cards from Dan a few months back</a> and they sent me down a rabbit hole trying to determine <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2024/01/bonus-players-in-high-end-sets.html" target="_blank">which players appeared in Diamond Heroes (and Touch The Game and Genesis) but not in the corresponding year's flagship set(s)</a>. I had decided that I wanted about a third of all the cards I had identified - mostly foreign players - and I knew Dan had a bunch of Diamond Heroes cards he was looking to get rid off so I sent my list off to him. He ultimately had eight of the cards I was looking for so I sent him some money and he sent me these cards:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6zORp1QgLzZ3cBU8z6W0JQumO6t32VDOwgi9IYZTVWeUfDGOhRIyFV0mXsEx2gRhPEqRJK8G-W_z6kwE-HxnNhrXz6x2EGBWNC2Q6wVsch5CtsdOeakGSgU9v2o2k7lnXmR_L2d1edIfx4jMfk0hPfy4UTKnBeWYmsnESA23XWwO-2xPq-blHorAXCQnD/s1021/MailDay-0023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6zORp1QgLzZ3cBU8z6W0JQumO6t32VDOwgi9IYZTVWeUfDGOhRIyFV0mXsEx2gRhPEqRJK8G-W_z6kwE-HxnNhrXz6x2EGBWNC2Q6wVsch5CtsdOeakGSgU9v2o2k7lnXmR_L2d1edIfx4jMfk0hPfy4UTKnBeWYmsnESA23XWwO-2xPq-blHorAXCQnD/w289-h400/MailDay-0023.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1998 BBM Diamond Heroes #108 (Samson Lee)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmWUSEiKK_PO5wjp10Tk0ho_zHfv1QJoYgF1SIrKeXVZEKoqZkAlHvCfZ1hyphenhyphen4r4RdBjKJyi7I3ByAYUUnwdzrNaxUFxRCIWs7CZxEX4sQmiY-l_XzqtGnCXG_Ogwm42wry6TZ4O5eVKajP-YB-7fk8UZTA_lPJJEiqq_o6jOt9M3BhyphenhyphenhZ-EASJ-erw1OG/s1021/MailDay-0024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="734" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmWUSEiKK_PO5wjp10Tk0ho_zHfv1QJoYgF1SIrKeXVZEKoqZkAlHvCfZ1hyphenhyphen4r4RdBjKJyi7I3ByAYUUnwdzrNaxUFxRCIWs7CZxEX4sQmiY-l_XzqtGnCXG_Ogwm42wry6TZ4O5eVKajP-YB-7fk8UZTA_lPJJEiqq_o6jOt9M3BhyphenhyphenhZ-EASJ-erw1OG/w288-h400/MailDay-0024.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1999 BBM Diamond Heroes #190 (Rodney Pedraza)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEs2uBmZ6fFv9XkjrYNDP0gIuApze-mkO3Vl4qax4Z0G57LJHGbPQK42uDWAyMChYDlTFfLqGcLj-e_I8y4rtfIBvyFcwoPEuWCNV3IFWgGI5xuJJQogbxFHyI1u3VIy8a2SsjlKZshVHTxNNFPsbEvWSulzHdD-FWGf7GofyDj2ESFI99FMZyxau88i5_/s1021/MailDay-0025.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEs2uBmZ6fFv9XkjrYNDP0gIuApze-mkO3Vl4qax4Z0G57LJHGbPQK42uDWAyMChYDlTFfLqGcLj-e_I8y4rtfIBvyFcwoPEuWCNV3IFWgGI5xuJJQogbxFHyI1u3VIy8a2SsjlKZshVHTxNNFPsbEvWSulzHdD-FWGf7GofyDj2ESFI99FMZyxau88i5_/w291-h400/MailDay-0025.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1999 BBM Diamond Heroes #159 (Sherman Obando)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMR4b8QDWbAbBXDKRbZyE9ceGqZDSwneS2Wj2MeQex2AmR8tFV6iZQNCSvjCH1dxfB4UdhyphenhyphenfyF1PlZrnpIE681IvL15gKZzwYjcoqQndUAbtQBFGY9W8NNwPDJDMZmO7Ah1O5vJ-LgHVjIxQdyfLVsDeUGvBWPlQpYlc3RU1cbF0go1kJ9eDiK3avHDYwR/s1021/MailDay-0026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMR4b8QDWbAbBXDKRbZyE9ceGqZDSwneS2Wj2MeQex2AmR8tFV6iZQNCSvjCH1dxfB4UdhyphenhyphenfyF1PlZrnpIE681IvL15gKZzwYjcoqQndUAbtQBFGY9W8NNwPDJDMZmO7Ah1O5vJ-LgHVjIxQdyfLVsDeUGvBWPlQpYlc3RU1cbF0go1kJ9eDiK3avHDYwR/w289-h400/MailDay-0026.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1999 BBM Diamond Heroes #136 (Alan Zinter)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTeDgIwu9F_FiCspwBwRZY6CK-IrfcUsRcfg10eIMUBE64p6AGz_G3ll4uzWh_goaZOP518ynm6ufzhIF85zlF0V4pIkAlCjYmcZrvG4LwZsebnziDLqCHDn7_uMUzNIgqtSCgAuz8YR_9U8XrwXPEQG5yiPY6wxnNiQS3Bq963l5joTmIjmO10BU13vJc/s1021/MailDay-0027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTeDgIwu9F_FiCspwBwRZY6CK-IrfcUsRcfg10eIMUBE64p6AGz_G3ll4uzWh_goaZOP518ynm6ufzhIF85zlF0V4pIkAlCjYmcZrvG4LwZsebnziDLqCHDn7_uMUzNIgqtSCgAuz8YR_9U8XrwXPEQG5yiPY6wxnNiQS3Bq963l5joTmIjmO10BU13vJc/w289-h400/MailDay-0027.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1999 BBM Diamond Heroes #57 (Domingo Martinez)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjff4rOly5NWHmY8wRwqryxsF2IpEuKO2WDQe1X1MR3KqalRYXsm6OvSgT4qIh1RDKIHCY6-welmxItacqwMLUchMZ8K58ZxncrXoPPoGkPvyOi5c7oOWYtgXw6SchaJ_tdXyM8ErHNQh-EZ-LQbtkou09uibjq9D30_iv7MPmbs_gQydEt-RyYYciVbxv7/s1021/MailDay-0028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="735" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjff4rOly5NWHmY8wRwqryxsF2IpEuKO2WDQe1X1MR3KqalRYXsm6OvSgT4qIh1RDKIHCY6-welmxItacqwMLUchMZ8K58ZxncrXoPPoGkPvyOi5c7oOWYtgXw6SchaJ_tdXyM8ErHNQh-EZ-LQbtkou09uibjq9D30_iv7MPmbs_gQydEt-RyYYciVbxv7/w288-h400/MailDay-0028.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2000 BBM Diamond Heroes #236 (Jason Hardtke)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62N7gz8Dl8WkhDRB5kHmjv_vN3xh5PhScievh3gM7m6v7_Kyc4UKqW9i9jiyv9RuHg2bVd0OHxo3Z_wijWDK19eBERbJcOKvMGXWScZQTGiMFfvrHkL-gbJgb_-Bw03f8pHp0I8SxNS7q58-OFaqOVubL8VP3nJSNqXdqN7_ZcyhFj4L0Q8WUA-g8tB5-/s1021/MailDay-0029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62N7gz8Dl8WkhDRB5kHmjv_vN3xh5PhScievh3gM7m6v7_Kyc4UKqW9i9jiyv9RuHg2bVd0OHxo3Z_wijWDK19eBERbJcOKvMGXWScZQTGiMFfvrHkL-gbJgb_-Bw03f8pHp0I8SxNS7q58-OFaqOVubL8VP3nJSNqXdqN7_ZcyhFj4L0Q8WUA-g8tB5-/w289-h400/MailDay-0029.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2000 BBM Diamond Heroes #209 (Salvatre Urso)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEillWPDdf_u_UZrVt0Vt7Nnh25T5vrJTYJMhaa6ERlmP4yMtJnlzNyyhXSWbAIcivYK3-vJQiBYGUQ0k_7eC6knBvCB6hY2dIbRuVxO2NEwMrbQpvXJmajdDTkZWjQLE_n-RNFu90Smdrgi2LnvVV1wwX95zCvxh8kwirkyE8igDM6L9YlqiJQKb0FU2mQu/s1021/MailDay-0030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEillWPDdf_u_UZrVt0Vt7Nnh25T5vrJTYJMhaa6ERlmP4yMtJnlzNyyhXSWbAIcivYK3-vJQiBYGUQ0k_7eC6knBvCB6hY2dIbRuVxO2NEwMrbQpvXJmajdDTkZWjQLE_n-RNFu90Smdrgi2LnvVV1wwX95zCvxh8kwirkyE8igDM6L9YlqiJQKb0FU2mQu/w289-h400/MailDay-0030.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2000 BBM Diamond Heroes #107 (Bob Wolcott)</td></tr></tbody></table><p>As far as I can tell, these are the only NPB cards for Zinter and Urso. Lee, Pedraza and Obando all had cards in subsequent years (Pedraza was also in BBM's All Star and Nippon Series sets in 1999) while Domingo Martinez had cards in previous years (with the Lions), subsequent years (with the Giants) and the 1999 Calbee set as well as <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2021/10/1999-bbmyomiuri-giants-set.html" target="_blank">the BBM Giants team set distributed by the Yomiuri Shinbum</a>. Hardtke and Wolcott appeared in other NPB sets in 2000. (I remember seeing both Zinter and Obando in the Mets and Yankees farm systems respectively in the early 90's so it's fun getting Japanese cards of them.)</p><p>Thanks to Jason and Dan for the cards!</p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-8506325780274027652024-03-03T08:00:00.036-05:002024-03-03T08:00:00.153-05:00Card Of The Week March 3Among the SCM cards I got from <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> were two of the three cards BBM issued to promote <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2011/01/2010-bbm-20th-anniversary-set.html" target="_blank">their 20th Anniversary set back in 2010</a>. I already had the other one so this completes the very small set. The three cards are each double-sided so there's six players depicted on the cards - one for each Central League team.<div><br /></div><div>What I found interesting about these cards was that they weren't the traditional promo cards for the set in that they featured photos that were different from the corresponding cards in the set. Even more interesting was that the photos were taken during the "Great Central" portion of the 2010 schedule when the six Central League teams wore throwback uniforms. (I know they did this for a number of years but I'm not sure when it started or ended,) Here's the front and back of all three cards:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPEH0DPGjimH56CLXbfXhyphenhyphenO5tV6RrJ2ySGLe67LE0OW934W4qU6OR7YLZNy7jepMPuc8tOlmRR_fKXBoA3ERHHLdX527sFQOOgx3Gnv_5BJ4tNH_ZrtgfTCXbvLa43yC-fChDObkL9ma_kXFCpt0VSPwwOpT6zdS6ZyVYu_-zWtr3_C8k4XeE6w2vcXnSG/s1021/GC-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPEH0DPGjimH56CLXbfXhyphenhyphenO5tV6RrJ2ySGLe67LE0OW934W4qU6OR7YLZNy7jepMPuc8tOlmRR_fKXBoA3ERHHLdX527sFQOOgx3Gnv_5BJ4tNH_ZrtgfTCXbvLa43yC-fChDObkL9ma_kXFCpt0VSPwwOpT6zdS6ZyVYu_-zWtr3_C8k4XeE6w2vcXnSG/w290-h400/GC-0001.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2010 BBM SCM #162 (front)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIt_FEA9gTdPri1VDwOciVcKDgIaTmB5OUK-1Vb9Z8eakWBi2ni9oe4mUAnCjKVeTluIRMHTo5oUxzGHt6joXIcfL3GwN141OP0zZpgQB_xxYedjOlanvAn_3lMxgBHlWbZMHIH9mqLQ3ck5HtmiSzN9ouUiO7kYhTwWiBFTdXgnO3-ykJVLJ__yxqyGiz/s1021/GC-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIt_FEA9gTdPri1VDwOciVcKDgIaTmB5OUK-1Vb9Z8eakWBi2ni9oe4mUAnCjKVeTluIRMHTo5oUxzGHt6joXIcfL3GwN141OP0zZpgQB_xxYedjOlanvAn_3lMxgBHlWbZMHIH9mqLQ3ck5HtmiSzN9ouUiO7kYhTwWiBFTdXgnO3-ykJVLJ__yxqyGiz/w290-h400/GC-0002.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2010 BBM SCM #162 (back)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDA36l7wff5EiHJ4hXFSP37KyGwzDny5xiCccQ9T3MWH3c9mXXPZSn4Nw3MUDXCYSjrSVQC_9SWMY3TVBmrM6pPuXWWpnyV8PpfTy5D1SrWpaRK2vE97jgjsgsr-0IXqaVot63EAhDxm703uXZcJwLA1g8KJ4LwkyYQBhtKO7TwAFJANKg9QfN_H7ifkD/s1021/GC-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDA36l7wff5EiHJ4hXFSP37KyGwzDny5xiCccQ9T3MWH3c9mXXPZSn4Nw3MUDXCYSjrSVQC_9SWMY3TVBmrM6pPuXWWpnyV8PpfTy5D1SrWpaRK2vE97jgjsgsr-0IXqaVot63EAhDxm703uXZcJwLA1g8KJ4LwkyYQBhtKO7TwAFJANKg9QfN_H7ifkD/w290-h400/GC-0003.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2010 BBM SCM #163 (front)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3XQgDFmFHz7-CE7kRoGVR5cjK0QeCiki6TY_24jYzoc2fmRmDivZ0JKxe3H-XHs9E9hJuk3B9VC5RPJnKMH505WUlaXVTxOXXiB3qQke2N4IfJmkFJ7Q5t5Bm-Y5i0655qXroNpAmCthedqDkWfATGwI4tWrAutT1DxcklcjhBBGxTqvwgyhCe8Wb6ryq/s1021/GC-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3XQgDFmFHz7-CE7kRoGVR5cjK0QeCiki6TY_24jYzoc2fmRmDivZ0JKxe3H-XHs9E9hJuk3B9VC5RPJnKMH505WUlaXVTxOXXiB3qQke2N4IfJmkFJ7Q5t5Bm-Y5i0655qXroNpAmCthedqDkWfATGwI4tWrAutT1DxcklcjhBBGxTqvwgyhCe8Wb6ryq/w290-h400/GC-0004.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2010 BBM SCM #163 (back)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnqeZ8DukaynvV5RXdzTuVpzzSjzHLp4qwufltCE1JtiP4TJNq3Ezp7tOGqbRCGI0tds1EyI5781BToo6TA6CrX58RqYt2J-UJtW-V6V0zOnwSQFka-Km4pYCZKfF4CcT-VJVQaiRXQ5Xofg7qRPVYBWyXx1IhYJQCu9h4N9KEYJruE7adZM4L1Ds-s3iJ/s1021/GC-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnqeZ8DukaynvV5RXdzTuVpzzSjzHLp4qwufltCE1JtiP4TJNq3Ezp7tOGqbRCGI0tds1EyI5781BToo6TA6CrX58RqYt2J-UJtW-V6V0zOnwSQFka-Km4pYCZKfF4CcT-VJVQaiRXQ5Xofg7qRPVYBWyXx1IhYJQCu9h4N9KEYJruE7adZM4L1Ds-s3iJ/w290-h400/GC-0005.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2010 BBM SCM #164 (front)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlgg52dXQkDPFvWyub-0W5LCkbo7r9F5UuKjhdwnBbl7hfi977Ihyphenhyphenz8osC_B_ClQqUIG-rBwc6SskRQSwHFujkWBVH2SaCzSPDSs1PKxP3RLeqUuiRlOFQ0vVxVMy9iXqqb9ek_Vdwn2ARvYJgzjvx2gPIZmiIrBcx9nTaD2RG3V9G8xlretx6E-3IeCUt/s1021/GC-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlgg52dXQkDPFvWyub-0W5LCkbo7r9F5UuKjhdwnBbl7hfi977Ihyphenhyphenz8osC_B_ClQqUIG-rBwc6SskRQSwHFujkWBVH2SaCzSPDSs1PKxP3RLeqUuiRlOFQ0vVxVMy9iXqqb9ek_Vdwn2ARvYJgzjvx2gPIZmiIrBcx9nTaD2RG3V9G8xlretx6E-3IeCUt/w290-h400/GC-0006.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2010 BBM SCM #164 (back)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The other interesting thing is that the Dragons' representative, Naomichi Donoue, doesn't appear in the 20th Anniversary set.</div><div><br /></div><div>This would not be the last time that SCM did cards for the "Great Central" games. <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2012/11/card-of-week-november-25.html" target="_blank">They did it again in 2012 with a couple similar "promo" cards for the first Genesis set</a>. Those were the first SCM cards I ever got while these are among the last.</div>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-36591670554550380052024-02-26T21:04:00.001-05:002024-02-26T21:04:18.567-05:00Spring Is Coming<p>It's been about a month since the last time I did <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2024/01/2024-is-here.html" target="_blank">a round up of the new sets coming out</a>, there's been a bunch more announced and I'm going to too busy to post much for the next week or so which means it's probably time for another roundup. So without further ado...</p><p>- The 2024 edition of BBM's annual "Icons" box set will be out in late March and is called "<a href="https://target.co.jp/shopdetail/000000018895/ct273/page1/order/" target="_blank">Icons - Generations</a>". While that name might lead you to believe that the set will feature veterans as well as younger players, you'd be wrong. The set apparently will only include younger players. The web page touts Roki Sasaki, Hiroya Miyagi and Yasunobu Okugawa as being in the set along with nine rookies. Each box contains 37 cards - the complete 36 card base set (three cards per team) and one "special" insert card which could be a "foil print" card, an "EXTREME2024" rookie card, a "Foil Autograph" card or a "Handwritten autograph" card. There are parallel versions of the "foil print" and "EXTREME2024" cards. The "Foil Autograph" cards only include the three Giants players since Yomiuri does not allow their players to have authentic autographs in any card sets.</p><p>- BBM has announced the first three of their annual "comprehensive" team sets. Each set has a base set of 81 cards, most of which are "regular" player cards featuring the manager and the players on the 70 man roster plus a couple subsets (which may not be fully defined yet) to fill out the set. Each set also has 18 non-premium insert cards split into a variety of sets which also may not be fully defined yet. The Treasure, Esperanza and Magical inserts are all serially numbered. (If it's not obvious, the "Regular Cards", "Treasure", "Esperanza" and "Magical" columns are the total number of those type of cards in each set.) In addition, I think there's a significant subset of the player cards (12 players plus the 2023 draftees) for the Hawks and Tigers which will have parallels with different photos (which are not being referred to as "secret" versions for some reason).</p><style type="text/css">
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<td class="tg-0lax"><a href="https://www.sportsclick.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=12041" target="_blank">Hawks</a></td>
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<td class="tg-0lax"><a href="https://www.sportsclick.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=12040" target="_blank">Baystars</a></td>
<td class="tg-0lax">67</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Boost(3), Yokohama Bond(6), Discovery(2), Headliner(3)</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Alpha(9), Explosion(6), Blooming(3)</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">24</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">15</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">24</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Autograph cards</td>
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<td class="tg-0lax">Mid April</td>
<td class="tg-0lax"><a href="https://target.co.jp/shopdetail/000000018904/ct273/page1/order/" target="_blank">Tigers</a></td>
<td class="tg-0lax">67</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Newcomer(3), Title Holders(7), On The Rise(4)</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Main Players(9), New Players(3), Reliable Pitcher(3), Promising Young Players(3)</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">24</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">15</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">24</td>
<td class="tg-0lax">Autograph cards; memorabilia cards for Teruaki Sato and Shota Morishita</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />- Not to be left out, Epoch has released information about the first two of their "Premier Edition" team sets - the <a href="https://epoch.jp/cd/products/?detail=58783" target="_blank">Swallows</a> and the <a href="https://epoch.jp/cd/products/?detail=58781" target="_blank">Baystars</a>. The Swallows set has a base set of 40 cards - 37 active players and three OB players. The promo materials for the Baystars set says the base set has 40 cards but it actually lists 51 cards - 44 active players and seven OB ones. Both sets have a gazillion inserts that I honestly don't feel like listing, especially since they don't have the same ones - check out the links if you want to see the names of all 15. Both sets feature five different types of player autograph cards - "Authentic", "Star", "Rookie", "Legendary" and "Combo". The Swallows set also includes "mascot combo" autographed cards and something called "Tsubakurou's Flip" which I'm not quite sure is. The Swallows set will be released on April 20th and the Baystars set will be out a week later on the 27th.<div><br /></div><div>- <a href="https://www.calbee.co.jp/products/detail/?p=20231225133522" target="_blank">Calbee's Series One set</a> will be released on April 1st which is about all I can tell you about it as Calbee's not releasing the checklist for it until March 27th (the same irritating thing they've done for the last three years). I'm not sure but I think the webpage says something about the cards not being in wide release until April 15th although I certainly could be misunderstanding the Google Translation.</div>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-15712052089167193432024-02-25T19:29:00.000-05:002024-02-25T19:29:04.452-05:002023 Pacific League 12 Greatest Set<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDIklX93sZFyTs0b3xhR9xjYuAHtEG5ig4Mk6_QDP_Kc-o40JlaFhyphenhyphentGhj99zCSIEjMJCqC1zVAhaljUggJ_8bKPx2isvtIXUjHtPbzyP4IArPh1FzVgb_xASevNnbaFn2ZD8Q-6T1-dlVIzzN_KtkGx6k5H1G2ZuQJ0aEriFBcutp6fixb6mo8GDX2pKp/s3218/IMG_3038.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3218" data-original-width="2765" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDIklX93sZFyTs0b3xhR9xjYuAHtEG5ig4Mk6_QDP_Kc-o40JlaFhyphenhyphentGhj99zCSIEjMJCqC1zVAhaljUggJ_8bKPx2isvtIXUjHtPbzyP4IArPh1FzVgb_xASevNnbaFn2ZD8Q-6T1-dlVIzzN_KtkGx6k5H1G2ZuQJ0aEriFBcutp6fixb6mo8GDX2pKp/w550-h640/IMG_3038.jpeg" width="550" /></a></div><br /><div>Last summer the Pacific League issued a twelve card set as a stadium giveaway. I don't know all the details but at select games fans were handed bags like the one shown above containing a sheet of stickers and a paper sleeve containing a baseball card. I assume but don't know for sure that you'd only get cards for the home team at the stadium you were visiting, so you wouldn't get cards for the Marines at a Lions home game and vice versa.</div><div><br /></div><div>The set was called "12 Greatest" which, as you might expect, means there are two cards from each team. The back of the sleeve lists all the players and, as you also might expect, Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the first player listed. As you might NOT expect, Roki Sasaki is not included in the set - the Marines representatives are Kazuya Ojima and Kou Matsukawa. Here's the full list of players - Yamamoto and Hiroya Miyagi (Buffaloes); Takuya Kai and Kensuke Kondoh (Hawks); Kona Takahashi and Sosuke Genda (Lions); Yuki Matsui and Hideto Asamura (Eagles); Ojima and Matsukawa (Marines) and Hiromi Itoh and Go Matsumoto (Fighters).</div><div><br /></div><div>At my request <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> picked up the two Lions cards for me off Mercari. The listing included not just the cards but the bags with the sleeves and stickers.</div><div><br /></div><div>The cards are larger than the standard size. They're four inches high and three inches wide. Here's the two Lions cards:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrR_7MkpcYjfeeNigwk2zDKmvSWiaXyP27k83CxFT1mGB48sIxyZ1pCFVHKf2VqM4xN667XSi6kYe0HMZ87cc4CpLJ8sJ6Vd2Z8eAkNklsMtyd8lGH2-RCc560bM4mbaYFD6QGirZsNKI7yNOGSLMFmc3l-4Ze9BrS6Zyv0XPRITMEcgbMD840-_thiZmD/s1186/Persol-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="881" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrR_7MkpcYjfeeNigwk2zDKmvSWiaXyP27k83CxFT1mGB48sIxyZ1pCFVHKf2VqM4xN667XSi6kYe0HMZ87cc4CpLJ8sJ6Vd2Z8eAkNklsMtyd8lGH2-RCc560bM4mbaYFD6QGirZsNKI7yNOGSLMFmc3l-4Ze9BrS6Zyv0XPRITMEcgbMD840-_thiZmD/w298-h400/Persol-0003.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhDOBrX-urUihm8VplsLf_ganCVhpVS8Q7D0JxvZ4IYUwMlOa7BtE2uufRF223fgKbkcnQo9pQBjfj6EnoPI8RZIoy9nHP_VaHDIaNFuB2-jgy64BBGqVqJn4Miq0DHtroSmJUrkN2bdamuQ_3FMFxBy5k-p7hMccMcAUdH2-_3_rwvGBa_4Hiq30gjT-K/s1181/Persol-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="878" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhDOBrX-urUihm8VplsLf_ganCVhpVS8Q7D0JxvZ4IYUwMlOa7BtE2uufRF223fgKbkcnQo9pQBjfj6EnoPI8RZIoy9nHP_VaHDIaNFuB2-jgy64BBGqVqJn4Miq0DHtroSmJUrkN2bdamuQ_3FMFxBy5k-p7hMccMcAUdH2-_3_rwvGBa_4Hiq30gjT-K/w298-h400/Persol-0004.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><div>These are not the only cards I have from this set, however, as a month or so ago I picked this up on Ebay:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQw1vFQbN5_9kNLTv6xLB5QPwEii3gMmwjUmi6IF9HBCVCskkpiS0iIvMlfyQV8omD605Tf0gudYLP7wjPttWDV-McxKNXhZfn-c9j15eIy7IwTegAFhHSdnqdHWA7_EnF4izfwLLJDuBDeNRfdHjEJ99ox-73NPyBEfV8lRWpK_wlKg0BQsfbQnQo__7/s1179/Persol-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1179" data-original-width="877" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQw1vFQbN5_9kNLTv6xLB5QPwEii3gMmwjUmi6IF9HBCVCskkpiS0iIvMlfyQV8omD605Tf0gudYLP7wjPttWDV-McxKNXhZfn-c9j15eIy7IwTegAFhHSdnqdHWA7_EnF4izfwLLJDuBDeNRfdHjEJ99ox-73NPyBEfV8lRWpK_wlKg0BQsfbQnQo__7/w298-h400/Persol-0005.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><div>Here's what the back of the Yamamoto card looks like:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDvIFLn-3rqYaM0mwpxeoyaipvE-t-ytCZsMRMomwyWdDP0lp4xbjm50zaihFqVmZQMLUGI4zssctgu65bBt1t1LGCvsC238uFhtDHYJf56XkD51pRn3qjrJ6CcRHF8y6E2_NiYVz4RA_rJvVIDEj8NZuh2xujq3rl_ZMa85HepF-MN5uw6tEoDvy5bCsl/s1186/Persol-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="874" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDvIFLn-3rqYaM0mwpxeoyaipvE-t-ytCZsMRMomwyWdDP0lp4xbjm50zaihFqVmZQMLUGI4zssctgu65bBt1t1LGCvsC238uFhtDHYJf56XkD51pRn3qjrJ6CcRHF8y6E2_NiYVz4RA_rJvVIDEj8NZuh2xujq3rl_ZMa85HepF-MN5uw6tEoDvy5bCsl/w295-h400/Persol-0006.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><br /><div>You can see that the cards are unnumbered - that number on the front of the card is the player's uniform number.</div><div><br /></div><div>I got curious about the line on the back that said "Produced by doda". I was wondering if "doda" was some card company I hadn't heard of. It isn't - <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80" target="_blank">they're a company to help people find new jobs</a> and they're owned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persol_Holdings" target="_blank">Persol</a>, an HR management company that currently has the naming rights for the Pacfic League.</div><div><br /></div><div>I actually like these cards quite a bit and would consider trying to track down the other nine cards. The sad thing is that <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2019/11/card-shops-in-japan-wrappers.html" target="_blank">Wrappers</a>, the card shop in Tokyo that would be most likely to carry oddball items like this, has apparently closed. </div><div><br /></div><div>Just to round things out, here are scans of the front and back of the sleeve and the sticker sheet:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijJJBuq0bhyphenhyphen0dRrvyphbyc_6toIW2KAZM8aRxmkUOAZwzD8lQrDkOGy3UsYZaW5f3Wo0ohYMeUtyTpST5JPXlw3C3kDiAsQU4Lzgy6iGlXNNlK3zEOg7z5R2LiJEdURBnLnRNSodLdS-YVaX94H8Jz8p5XfrWZ-cpsMSJ214GQag5MnveRUpsCigixGJdL/s1258/Persol-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1258" data-original-width="945" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijJJBuq0bhyphenhyphen0dRrvyphbyc_6toIW2KAZM8aRxmkUOAZwzD8lQrDkOGy3UsYZaW5f3Wo0ohYMeUtyTpST5JPXlw3C3kDiAsQU4Lzgy6iGlXNNlK3zEOg7z5R2LiJEdURBnLnRNSodLdS-YVaX94H8Jz8p5XfrWZ-cpsMSJ214GQag5MnveRUpsCigixGJdL/w300-h400/Persol-0001.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvqJLKw6D8kjBgR_ylX-mPxAse0HjVaIXTwMF7O3naO7l8kZjfgHdvBTyfxZhLabu2aC8tQAnhGxeV2oxq-Ym8w6R9m5HQxHvHi3MeAIfGuEbIdiQ_KoDNFufm6WnTiW4W3LCmTJPaFF1uNtissyOu8ldBVv-fMKbp48ukN_d8W8kQRnEDAHvY9BTGlwF/s1250/Persol-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvqJLKw6D8kjBgR_ylX-mPxAse0HjVaIXTwMF7O3naO7l8kZjfgHdvBTyfxZhLabu2aC8tQAnhGxeV2oxq-Ym8w6R9m5HQxHvHi3MeAIfGuEbIdiQ_KoDNFufm6WnTiW4W3LCmTJPaFF1uNtissyOu8ldBVv-fMKbp48ukN_d8W8kQRnEDAHvY9BTGlwF/w303-h400/Persol-0002.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfoobNX1bu68St6xbeSOEfmvihlLJWv1PglkE-vjayfVBHvmBYeJKC0jbv8Dv7npsr3nbsJhjpcLU5eOYKc_yCA5j5UANY2kjUtYYFaMe-2wP3gUFvYR9Q8SKdzos5ko1mIg2gxX35UVxWTDhExXFUyyeZuedatQOi-TIFPGHHC-RaY99oIxaSmhArTz28/s2461/Persol-0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1741" data-original-width="2461" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfoobNX1bu68St6xbeSOEfmvihlLJWv1PglkE-vjayfVBHvmBYeJKC0jbv8Dv7npsr3nbsJhjpcLU5eOYKc_yCA5j5UANY2kjUtYYFaMe-2wP3gUFvYR9Q8SKdzos5ko1mIg2gxX35UVxWTDhExXFUyyeZuedatQOi-TIFPGHHC-RaY99oIxaSmhArTz28/w400-h283/Persol-0007.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-3910700880870964562024-02-25T12:08:00.003-05:002024-02-25T12:08:50.645-05:00Card Of The Week February 25<p>After 11 seasons away with the Dodgers and Blue Jays, Ryu Hyun-jin is returning to South Korea and the Hanwha Eagles, <a href="https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/02/hyun-jin-ryu-discussing-contract-with-kbos-hanwha-eagles.html" target="_blank">He signed an eight year deal with his former team this past week</a>.</p><p>Ryu left Korea for the majors before the 2013 season which was before Ntreev Duael got the official license to do KBO cards and released their "Super Star Baseball" sets. So the only card I know of that shows him with Hanwha is from the unlicensed <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2012/11/2010-korean-set.html" target="_blank">2010 KBO Game Set</a>. I would expect that he will end up in whatever KBO sets get issued this year.</p><p>Since I don't collect MLB cards, the only cards I own of Ryu are WBC cards from 2009 and the afore-mentioned KBO card. I have three cards of him and each one is from a different country:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwROVAmJYt1bMzrMYcqVbcwjPTCJA7vhcGfnXZjF1-SmDg-uvhr5_04LsJAzOtwb4tU6-g0A-9wxTJFu2avduaJ_I1PwiA3SilOzPymJRxguGYxKeFgafD0MnTyaVBB-7Sy-qHBoEN_Z3DTtbskYcwDb_Cp_fu6pKrfNvymb9wAa5KD7F-eKxqfzNQZYe/s1021/COTW-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwROVAmJYt1bMzrMYcqVbcwjPTCJA7vhcGfnXZjF1-SmDg-uvhr5_04LsJAzOtwb4tU6-g0A-9wxTJFu2avduaJ_I1PwiA3SilOzPymJRxguGYxKeFgafD0MnTyaVBB-7Sy-qHBoEN_Z3DTtbskYcwDb_Cp_fu6pKrfNvymb9wAa5KD7F-eKxqfzNQZYe/w291-h400/COTW-0001.jpg" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2009 Bowman Sterling - WBC Relics #BCR-HRR</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinCfSsp_Y_rKAlVFaCbKw8cpvlVdjcLYZ59bLiXUS-wX4U6iHqN3kSNdlsiD7n83PU8KFwYhZ0aAntnG-qc5ISxm3NpmF16k48mzSP-m_YsvLplVcQ_f0JRLGwz4ETEua50Ub49kFfh7MmsGx6remlIFDTm6BqZgF9JhfaUF9G6jLhGDZGcDJklBR8qcS5/s949/COTW-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="949" data-original-width="672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinCfSsp_Y_rKAlVFaCbKw8cpvlVdjcLYZ59bLiXUS-wX4U6iHqN3kSNdlsiD7n83PU8KFwYhZ0aAntnG-qc5ISxm3NpmF16k48mzSP-m_YsvLplVcQ_f0JRLGwz4ETEua50Ub49kFfh7MmsGx6remlIFDTm6BqZgF9JhfaUF9G6jLhGDZGcDJklBR8qcS5/w284-h400/COTW-0002.jpg" width="284" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2009 Konami Baseball Heroes World Baseball Classic #W09R126</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovuURa62GHYV1d3uYDTZ5Y4e6GmpV9vjGXDF_OFuvESJhySnszImppPr0tignzixx_V9sMprIsi5kBiQkF3dlZ11u0_xEFa0C8WL24aV1-n-k9mYmIskm1BEfdOqy_rgF0iZnJExMLi1l-wB-TT77dN8JVJR7HCfU77oOIhm0bcuWTT-6U_wmRTNaR1iZ/s1021/COTW-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="734" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovuURa62GHYV1d3uYDTZ5Y4e6GmpV9vjGXDF_OFuvESJhySnszImppPr0tignzixx_V9sMprIsi5kBiQkF3dlZ11u0_xEFa0C8WL24aV1-n-k9mYmIskm1BEfdOqy_rgF0iZnJExMLi1l-wB-TT77dN8JVJR7HCfU77oOIhm0bcuWTT-6U_wmRTNaR1iZ/w288-h400/COTW-0003.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2010 KBO Game Set #AH002</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I like how both he's in essentially the same pose on both the Konami WBC and the KBO Game set cards. I was also amused that the photo on the back of the Konami card appears to be the same as the front of the Bowman Sterling card:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmwPpz9BnUW1YWoxZczNenSjXjpEoPm_l6gR1D8Kq5VINeTWMWSfOrmYx8hQgKzOYYwOLjMFtv9Y9JQGazF3Kb7pqiUW1KMD18FOWRNHrH-3o0jCN6nUwK8hsERtSHoOXtzqb1-Djr3ojL5iiJHUw5Sxb5SCMkxBFnS0dQj7HJj2_k4a7ydOOggNVvmanE/s952/COTW-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="674" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmwPpz9BnUW1YWoxZczNenSjXjpEoPm_l6gR1D8Kq5VINeTWMWSfOrmYx8hQgKzOYYwOLjMFtv9Y9JQGazF3Kb7pqiUW1KMD18FOWRNHrH-3o0jCN6nUwK8hsERtSHoOXtzqb1-Djr3ojL5iiJHUw5Sxb5SCMkxBFnS0dQj7HJj2_k4a7ydOOggNVvmanE/w284-h400/COTW-0004.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-81996293557685631872024-02-24T22:05:00.003-05:002024-02-24T22:05:31.281-05:00Team Issued Cards<p>The box <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> sent me last week contained a bunch of team issued cards. Team issued cards - like <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2024/02/scm-and-other-magazine-and-promo-cards.html" target="_blank">magazine issued cards</a> - are one of the great unknowns when it comes to Japanese baseball cards. No one seems to know for sure how many sets are out there. As a result, I'm always happy to find some although frequently they raise more questions than answers.</p><p>Some of these cards are ones I saw on Yahoo! Japan Auctions or Mercari and asked Ryan to pick up for me and some of them were cards Ryan put in the box figuring that I would like them (and he was right!). I thought I'd do a post showing these off.</p><p>I'm kind of excited about this first pair of cards as they may be the first team issued cards I've ever seen for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp which is the only NPB team that I don't have any such cards for. There's nothing on the cards that would lead you to think these were some sort of food issue. There also isn't anything on them indicating what year they're from although they must be from 2021 or later as Kuribayashi didn't join the team until then:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwAmckEO1nl4yOlcFJn5pHigbaKXNo98rURPhbdV6SVR-GQlg0COhaygHgmbICXpRWc7iXevOD3BxDHogBomKB4v0gjQ3XLFgV6m1OqWe1zA1jfMuCqAz4Gg_A5YjC_-YVMCjUmbPZNxx_NTDfmahVr8biWtPey8ep6kJCa738cuc5ign8rD8-VRPE9tJ0/s999/TeamIssue-0001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="601" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwAmckEO1nl4yOlcFJn5pHigbaKXNo98rURPhbdV6SVR-GQlg0COhaygHgmbICXpRWc7iXevOD3BxDHogBomKB4v0gjQ3XLFgV6m1OqWe1zA1jfMuCqAz4Gg_A5YjC_-YVMCjUmbPZNxx_NTDfmahVr8biWtPey8ep6kJCa738cuc5ign8rD8-VRPE9tJ0/w241-h400/TeamIssue-0001.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDJt3_qAsswSy6W4gY4eDzb9Ww5U-ZbdYjS9KqgZmmqcCj38KysXWquHN_Doig9C6nFasjNVxhgLCd-BhiTt2PoRARQAQ2NYVEtB-WbdfmBJ_MuxTFhEDqm_1yh0ntwaKDdwDnP7oio7_4ro1ik4YSaYR3J578PdOn9WmLa-Emz9cDkVERDk7jiSKC0fl/s1001/TeamIssue-0002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="604" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmDJt3_qAsswSy6W4gY4eDzb9Ww5U-ZbdYjS9KqgZmmqcCj38KysXWquHN_Doig9C6nFasjNVxhgLCd-BhiTt2PoRARQAQ2NYVEtB-WbdfmBJ_MuxTFhEDqm_1yh0ntwaKDdwDnP7oio7_4ro1ik4YSaYR3J578PdOn9WmLa-Emz9cDkVERDk7jiSKC0fl/w241-h400/TeamIssue-0002.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><p>The backs of the cards are generic, identical and not any help:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuOx0p8WTLND5qcNzx13moMDPz8UG0N-8zAbupsdqn1vSTmyQpr4KI7gilKcMiGwQxGtoM90-_N2wX08JN9g5jjGW9VLs4VregVw4AVJbxdd9NeBx3z8I3Lr_49sFOBVVmypMuzWgYoEX3mmTNqyWsCs5yOdV5QoMFf28RSG6G9iFRDgVLbFmszArXu-2K/s1002/TeamIssue-0003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="603" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuOx0p8WTLND5qcNzx13moMDPz8UG0N-8zAbupsdqn1vSTmyQpr4KI7gilKcMiGwQxGtoM90-_N2wX08JN9g5jjGW9VLs4VregVw4AVJbxdd9NeBx3z8I3Lr_49sFOBVVmypMuzWgYoEX3mmTNqyWsCs5yOdV5QoMFf28RSG6G9iFRDgVLbFmszArXu-2K/w241-h400/TeamIssue-0003.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><p>There were a bunch of cards for the Fighters in the box. This card commemorates Yukio Tanaka reaching 2000 hits and I assume it was issued in 2007:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIuQnBb2QtLH5a6g-o8TDB7SVy7Rt8l2Xw2kK56ABbhlX3WxdnvgylKQhMNN48j-O3mbNA6-E2nzUD2eItlQjIBiPWKFmmN-4Ecf-ApOPE9bQW1ZzhAf8lumdOh606EAklwY6lynz07UqbmdOLwdUSIqwNrPfw3EPjzYhaMYqSuJM1iEFa9xSwPU7dgZo/s1021/TeamIssue-0004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="735" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIuQnBb2QtLH5a6g-o8TDB7SVy7Rt8l2Xw2kK56ABbhlX3WxdnvgylKQhMNN48j-O3mbNA6-E2nzUD2eItlQjIBiPWKFmmN-4Ecf-ApOPE9bQW1ZzhAf8lumdOh606EAklwY6lynz07UqbmdOLwdUSIqwNrPfw3EPjzYhaMYqSuJM1iEFa9xSwPU7dgZo/w288-h400/TeamIssue-0004.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><p>These two cards were issued in 2014 as some sort of tie-in to the tenth season of interleague play (and not the team's 10th Anniversary in Hokkaido as their tenth season up north was 2013). I have <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/06/card-of-week-june-11.html" target="_blank">another card from this set</a> as well:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6GuIEg5Yid-5WXW0VIfRr5Se5tlYDUi6jiBSj0WKSzDMRFNlZVGcoJMJ8AnwOWhyTcTS0XzMpEyLRSrY9zdVoW_CiXQvliUJd3yO0V2CcOsTTByricI6GY_EsAndsZh2HE4bUM36t-zPhBcn9irxcBpBNnGIiMtS0xECj5OfCUSV9R2-R_dzmeSVPC8oK/s1021/TeamIssue-0005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="734" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6GuIEg5Yid-5WXW0VIfRr5Se5tlYDUi6jiBSj0WKSzDMRFNlZVGcoJMJ8AnwOWhyTcTS0XzMpEyLRSrY9zdVoW_CiXQvliUJd3yO0V2CcOsTTByricI6GY_EsAndsZh2HE4bUM36t-zPhBcn9irxcBpBNnGIiMtS0xECj5OfCUSV9R2-R_dzmeSVPC8oK/w288-h400/TeamIssue-0005.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6zSNR00mUDvfrVA6MjOHzCN7_5VipvSeIvXrZKDNgIT5h-MxkY-39jKy2JW93FMMEJxKFviTdGrWKisK4xk4kPIIPvNjeWKJ6tsfSS7RAY7WcCjuLfCFEbTLOBFsFzEwMLcbrHqsLKBWktGAKaX4VdAmi7hfJgEARHWPMSV3xQxXnAoW4e-deratx13Z/s1021/TeamIssue-0006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="733" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6zSNR00mUDvfrVA6MjOHzCN7_5VipvSeIvXrZKDNgIT5h-MxkY-39jKy2JW93FMMEJxKFviTdGrWKisK4xk4kPIIPvNjeWKJ6tsfSS7RAY7WcCjuLfCFEbTLOBFsFzEwMLcbrHqsLKBWktGAKaX4VdAmi7hfJgEARHWPMSV3xQxXnAoW4e-deratx13Z/w288-h400/TeamIssue-0006.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><p>In 2017 the Fighters issued a set in conjunction with their "Legend Series" of games where the team wore throwback Toei Flyers uniforms. The Haruki Nishikawa and Takuma Nakashima cards from this set were in the respective card lots I got for them. I was a bit disappointed that they don't show the players in the Flyers uniforms although the cards have a nice throwback feel to them:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kMfUHDyyRXs0OSLW0pnWBG4chg5DgE08Hc506cdxf-JzUkJRQsFYUILjXnZTkvsAdUgT1WEJla79ZjpqiHjlAtDc-R45KvjfUJ8W-az0WnKNZZAhTVXMKnca6XQZfq6zvhMJDPPjH_U-XnxD2ih2ZvGwfsNO2LDS_MoJoi4YfMoGyMgqzb89hHdIOn73/s1021/TeamIssue-0007.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kMfUHDyyRXs0OSLW0pnWBG4chg5DgE08Hc506cdxf-JzUkJRQsFYUILjXnZTkvsAdUgT1WEJla79ZjpqiHjlAtDc-R45KvjfUJ8W-az0WnKNZZAhTVXMKnca6XQZfq6zvhMJDPPjH_U-XnxD2ih2ZvGwfsNO2LDS_MoJoi4YfMoGyMgqzb89hHdIOn73/w289-h400/TeamIssue-0007.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Takuma Nakashima</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxqdsX_dVbZVyRxYR3GVhnVLoyzzD7_883du2rxfq3ewei-6TK1Jjaqix9YkydnmmPmJ1Tv4v_bcr-qADDBWmYstjLqY-iRyGtMVH4uvimmkSfBktae_-tWz1tlSy4Ydp9gR1uv2F3140fP8IZTjIw6QN_JATsniAqKk1p-KeqrPknJke3bcKy-F24JYVC/s1021/TeamIssue-0008.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxqdsX_dVbZVyRxYR3GVhnVLoyzzD7_883du2rxfq3ewei-6TK1Jjaqix9YkydnmmPmJ1Tv4v_bcr-qADDBWmYstjLqY-iRyGtMVH4uvimmkSfBktae_-tWz1tlSy4Ydp9gR1uv2F3140fP8IZTjIw6QN_JATsniAqKk1p-KeqrPknJke3bcKy-F24JYVC/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0008.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haruki Nishikawa</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Nishikawa lot also had this other 2017 Fighters card:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyDsWHmS4cZNEqpnLqrZ0MAn51-k6wu4iE2iC8b8qLNtVSrYKUnedPWZuo4zVCwiBrlGsCBQcJP0SGieaItTLeQFi_tT0I2LVuyDDIj-9o6Ygy3XKAXeYlMjT8YiVM6pHPNi14mK_BEabqXN82jNHiEEuo7yxjx4YcbQrM_nEFlIIWYEzorHmd5ESjWmB/s1021/TeamIssue-0009.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="732" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhyDsWHmS4cZNEqpnLqrZ0MAn51-k6wu4iE2iC8b8qLNtVSrYKUnedPWZuo4zVCwiBrlGsCBQcJP0SGieaItTLeQFi_tT0I2LVuyDDIj-9o6Ygy3XKAXeYlMjT8YiVM6pHPNi14mK_BEabqXN82jNHiEEuo7yxjx4YcbQrM_nEFlIIWYEzorHmd5ESjWmB/w286-h400/TeamIssue-0009.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><p>This last Fighters card has to be from 2022 since the Fighters didn't use that logo or uniforms until then and Ishikawa joined the Buffaloes after that year.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDwteahVZZSvIZLogbndLbqGZUl4wCe5hhjg_V9z_DqmZ7Pmky5pZ_ci1B4Qvz4pUYd5hZIX5X7zpci04MK5dTqIXHXTGhlZU0z7RwyNF82_YLrvDNjld7XOxhSVXuNdBye6_8SVw3echN-kC3vCOUjtB0EvyTLaZm9lCMurvIpwu0ZbxxoY4rTtcE9XCR/s1021/TeamIssue-0010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDwteahVZZSvIZLogbndLbqGZUl4wCe5hhjg_V9z_DqmZ7Pmky5pZ_ci1B4Qvz4pUYd5hZIX5X7zpci04MK5dTqIXHXTGhlZU0z7RwyNF82_YLrvDNjld7XOxhSVXuNdBye6_8SVw3echN-kC3vCOUjtB0EvyTLaZm9lCMurvIpwu0ZbxxoY4rTtcE9XCR/w400-h290/TeamIssue-0010.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>The back's a little interesting as it talks up salmon from Hokkaido:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAZW2-DDTdySE7-5xkV-clEkJKunlDrZGfnGuvfxixRP_bbTCOQd030eE4V0gqoVBOUBfb7-I3bq8xmESp_rlOoDAgrQO9vqreI8YRSsg5cNavx3KMRXHkJlHix3qhw-AQcnP3Rc12ckXbdtF98WqOM02b-Y3BaXVn1_EInrfz3DPPVE3lFsPRFATDhnz4/s1021/TeamIssue-0011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAZW2-DDTdySE7-5xkV-clEkJKunlDrZGfnGuvfxixRP_bbTCOQd030eE4V0gqoVBOUBfb7-I3bq8xmESp_rlOoDAgrQO9vqreI8YRSsg5cNavx3KMRXHkJlHix3qhw-AQcnP3Rc12ckXbdtF98WqOM02b-Y3BaXVn1_EInrfz3DPPVE3lFsPRFATDhnz4/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0011.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><p>Google translation version:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlulWwuFPUnanVnvBCuASyqaQvVP7_LUxOU21aSEmsf9OfaZ9Nx_V1f7Sa-wXfb5wmctjn-HKeJ5dhHssxZHlcAWJzebOaBzc56CH-JmQhulK96UevvbpwPg0daDIFSKlLpkcOp_92e5YZnEV8cxqsi2LXsZpmUGJw8-qEbaD3XQzxrLzzGaLOKrZmuU0_/s1716/IMG_3033.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1716" data-original-width="1284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlulWwuFPUnanVnvBCuASyqaQvVP7_LUxOU21aSEmsf9OfaZ9Nx_V1f7Sa-wXfb5wmctjn-HKeJ5dhHssxZHlcAWJzebOaBzc56CH-JmQhulK96UevvbpwPg0daDIFSKlLpkcOp_92e5YZnEV8cxqsi2LXsZpmUGJw8-qEbaD3XQzxrLzzGaLOKrZmuU0_/w299-h400/IMG_3033.jpeg" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p>I got a bunch of Lions team issued cards. First up are three "Lions Classic" cards. The first one is a postcard-size card from 2013 showing Yusei Kikichi, Takumi Kuriyama and Ginjiro Sumitani:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2g81kZvE2hGEzQCj0b-uxcdh5Vw38ZpK-L_g6yhH_N5Lrpn3hm0eXo7-GTmHBcioiZp_noWXrDncQXuDCmBglBwCPhoE-NcP9d0xLgZ8uhNUy-H9JF1ZinqShOxM9Jj69wX6Eg-AlgHT37qMWZvfpu1dEfBi7Dm6w5yTcf5lRFQYLTb8gsua8yaeqkqJ/s1733/PostCard-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1163" data-original-width="1733" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY2g81kZvE2hGEzQCj0b-uxcdh5Vw38ZpK-L_g6yhH_N5Lrpn3hm0eXo7-GTmHBcioiZp_noWXrDncQXuDCmBglBwCPhoE-NcP9d0xLgZ8uhNUy-H9JF1ZinqShOxM9Jj69wX6Eg-AlgHT37qMWZvfpu1dEfBi7Dm6w5yTcf5lRFQYLTb8gsua8yaeqkqJ/w400-h269/PostCard-0001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Next is standard (or close to it) sized card of Shogo Akiyama from 2018:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjamJVxBFeEF-QckvCGJyW54mD2kk7F0kacd2mYowRKFfkrKE49gsbw5Zic3eUCuVOjTLQdua8kD-3Vz1uu1bFRvGVMCQg8Nkh8EsnYnXJMMNCE6D9oHTDwcVEjg6j92RyHTRkmW55BpolEVL7eik-mWL_ArzT9zhgZ90r9ez-I4ADLeCOQDaLUcsIT17WK/s988/TeamIssue-0012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="988" data-original-width="701" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjamJVxBFeEF-QckvCGJyW54mD2kk7F0kacd2mYowRKFfkrKE49gsbw5Zic3eUCuVOjTLQdua8kD-3Vz1uu1bFRvGVMCQg8Nkh8EsnYnXJMMNCE6D9oHTDwcVEjg6j92RyHTRkmW55BpolEVL7eik-mWL_ArzT9zhgZ90r9ez-I4ADLeCOQDaLUcsIT17WK/w284-h400/TeamIssue-0012.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><p>I don't know if the last "Lions Classic" card should really be considered a card or not. It's more like a 4x6 photo as it's printed on photographic paper. It shows Yuji Kaneko and the photo apparently is from the Lions-Eagles game on April 22, 2022 (although there is no information about the game - a 3-0 Lions victory - on the "card" at all):</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo4vFgu8AkLAJ_bl0Ji8JMqrW7T80XyHDCRoJr7PUmO8mw80Sh2jU-nVCy_bC8FUlzxmKuF8LE7EOMIEBOXt_BvoxbWauFSPjff_bI7y1f2JbfR9BgEm2-VIJOU0Mxby3WBSXCUvMMl_XEeYsOq5PND671lfHBX-hY_lQ7gLduTZDFxu5WiPmzOSXWRcVV/s1786/PostCard-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1786" data-original-width="1172" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo4vFgu8AkLAJ_bl0Ji8JMqrW7T80XyHDCRoJr7PUmO8mw80Sh2jU-nVCy_bC8FUlzxmKuF8LE7EOMIEBOXt_BvoxbWauFSPjff_bI7y1f2JbfR9BgEm2-VIJOU0Mxby3WBSXCUvMMl_XEeYsOq5PND671lfHBX-hY_lQ7gLduTZDFxu5WiPmzOSXWRcVV/w263-h400/PostCard-0002.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><p>Ryan found me some Lions cards from last year. These all appear to be from the "Team Lions" set. I guessing it's a "comprehensive" team set that includes the development (<i>ikusei</i>) players as well as the guys on the 70 man roster:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfxDRfJ8bPu8WZ7Y647pzmsKF6TJcd88TkfvHQCtZIdp2hqOmgnM9ddlZeDum3XXdsszjH2Voo4dfmkeHnX-_bbz6s0qu98u81-Uk3EuecVX5hL1tU7e9Kb_N8zZVE_rhg3Iudty6A7YfgGN3lMf9IFW8jdz5Hd3OLNHw0nJr230sqZOkUSzBI8DdS_PG/s992/TeamIssue-0013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="690" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWfxDRfJ8bPu8WZ7Y647pzmsKF6TJcd88TkfvHQCtZIdp2hqOmgnM9ddlZeDum3XXdsszjH2Voo4dfmkeHnX-_bbz6s0qu98u81-Uk3EuecVX5hL1tU7e9Kb_N8zZVE_rhg3Iudty6A7YfgGN3lMf9IFW8jdz5Hd3OLNHw0nJr230sqZOkUSzBI8DdS_PG/w279-h400/TeamIssue-0013.jpg" width="279" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kaito Awatsu</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiptUWhSYBVVEcG1UrYhrdFuc43WQjSgcafvuMRkLykfGH3WfpKzZcp_afCFiXjh5Rr8aGUqg8BdGA8qxnB_sqFlLDuzASQgJdoUBN6k7N0hxvxr_t7bzJr4FSfJ6eyslPr9Kg0IlUAsjuRdism8kbbe9jU9aL2Su4rksMx9elfDyGWh8S8EMLFwjQVfX-Z/s991/TeamIssue-0014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="690" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiptUWhSYBVVEcG1UrYhrdFuc43WQjSgcafvuMRkLykfGH3WfpKzZcp_afCFiXjh5Rr8aGUqg8BdGA8qxnB_sqFlLDuzASQgJdoUBN6k7N0hxvxr_t7bzJr4FSfJ6eyslPr9Kg0IlUAsjuRdism8kbbe9jU9aL2Su4rksMx9elfDyGWh8S8EMLFwjQVfX-Z/w279-h400/TeamIssue-0014.jpg" width="279" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shota Hiranuma</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCOv8dDgnXH9XnaVnuSZdCzIp1ZjXWIz6FEM2Z8EqV1ol5YT9UqWqqYxjA9ZS6LOGYN8v7GUT9AvxMZKDVXKys0T4mw-wyNtwF-qCHd2UJE9H905pWxe-0NdQ0XuUX2FQ9lmzQH8m2dMp9l3497hyniPm5W0Y2qC0kAypckATmlfNmWmUV1KRKp1v8c9sl/s991/TeamIssue-0015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="682" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCOv8dDgnXH9XnaVnuSZdCzIp1ZjXWIz6FEM2Z8EqV1ol5YT9UqWqqYxjA9ZS6LOGYN8v7GUT9AvxMZKDVXKys0T4mw-wyNtwF-qCHd2UJE9H905pWxe-0NdQ0XuUX2FQ9lmzQH8m2dMp9l3497hyniPm5W0Y2qC0kAypckATmlfNmWmUV1KRKp1v8c9sl/w275-h400/TeamIssue-0015.jpg" width="275" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Toshihiro Idei</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMgkHKrnHQemd4YGQEEygsbRGv6gvH1uhAU2mKIQTkpTRIPVMiIG5TqsSyfc_VqiCrNV2bXnKicKp3PHn5BT3y47Bx3g82zur5QjEYsVBcP0gAOUH3WzcadGV7D-DkMKy8Lr03E4xtZOavoE63OYcJWIxG5sqXItZGPBuxTn0QNjW0-8S1V6BMaXIFDCR/s993/TeamIssue-0016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="688" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpMgkHKrnHQemd4YGQEEygsbRGv6gvH1uhAU2mKIQTkpTRIPVMiIG5TqsSyfc_VqiCrNV2bXnKicKp3PHn5BT3y47Bx3g82zur5QjEYsVBcP0gAOUH3WzcadGV7D-DkMKy8Lr03E4xtZOavoE63OYcJWIxG5sqXItZGPBuxTn0QNjW0-8S1V6BMaXIFDCR/w278-h400/TeamIssue-0016.jpg" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sho Itoh</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfaW-fJQRU23rEhQ1Z21OyhJHQSgUxM5bcUZhpOpiunPRwsnmNEjMmqNSmrpSDHBCH2WcS5QOtQsl_ewNajTsRBHYnsn9AcMpnee6O1eOFvVKu-7E6SecFDvNGfsahWPXvEvzFLaPe3oUr3f2wPASdeqJWcZVJcxKFegTE9D-7iR5Z-KS-QGMZKL4FTtp/s993/TeamIssue-0017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="688" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfaW-fJQRU23rEhQ1Z21OyhJHQSgUxM5bcUZhpOpiunPRwsnmNEjMmqNSmrpSDHBCH2WcS5QOtQsl_ewNajTsRBHYnsn9AcMpnee6O1eOFvVKu-7E6SecFDvNGfsahWPXvEvzFLaPe3oUr3f2wPASdeqJWcZVJcxKFegTE9D-7iR5Z-KS-QGMZKL4FTtp/w278-h400/TeamIssue-0017.jpg" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seiji Kawagoe</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirWFOpDUoDH5Av_n_UNpW8UR6sgDmhuHVulDKKm8TSR9DYTjL5HzfBI3zIcvgqWLBRAGXm64i-ssm28oR7_Yb9XKb_bO0_wDTq0_siNC2AfH2wzjvMM8xRRvzMCJUnWuGeWQFp9tdWTIPXkm_Hw2b1Fcl61qpl0QAGCVnsxx4VvrznIyzCZZwAjeDitcfc/s995/TeamIssue-0018.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="686" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirWFOpDUoDH5Av_n_UNpW8UR6sgDmhuHVulDKKm8TSR9DYTjL5HzfBI3zIcvgqWLBRAGXm64i-ssm28oR7_Yb9XKb_bO0_wDTq0_siNC2AfH2wzjvMM8xRRvzMCJUnWuGeWQFp9tdWTIPXkm_Hw2b1Fcl61qpl0QAGCVnsxx4VvrznIyzCZZwAjeDitcfc/w276-h400/TeamIssue-0018.jpg" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daichi Nakaguma</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7opO2oQfdYArnrD-iUVoxYX-U5EEabTkPNV6kfl06sNC_HBZ6MWjWkVvqoNUKPvhwuLeu5zX6xmcOffKGJwmxSpXzCxnDdD68jex7DASqA0sOP_dGdUC4-Cl685i3ZV1UFRFlBvz3oMMm5CLi6gkvGWfJkWEQtV36YKvuY_FomXJiNrmkUBaUNnxBRCqk/s995/TeamIssue-0019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="687" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7opO2oQfdYArnrD-iUVoxYX-U5EEabTkPNV6kfl06sNC_HBZ6MWjWkVvqoNUKPvhwuLeu5zX6xmcOffKGJwmxSpXzCxnDdD68jex7DASqA0sOP_dGdUC4-Cl685i3ZV1UFRFlBvz3oMMm5CLi6gkvGWfJkWEQtV36YKvuY_FomXJiNrmkUBaUNnxBRCqk/w276-h400/TeamIssue-0019.jpg" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yuta Nakamigawa</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5WtiqXVrP0nFZfmhq3PjjeLNhDeJS_aO5IOnPdmWyuJq3cdPKwGo4SRAemwd3ze5hRBIQqqXbjyimEajL0uxiwozHWYvLnyveu1u21kF3vd2Eq1r8dMNVRzRREXA_STbAlqWOvVMZpjG4esibm2tmjhXgxZJ842kkMD_zL19Nd5oquU9sjCTOEcJRW0OP/s993/TeamIssue-0020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="691" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5WtiqXVrP0nFZfmhq3PjjeLNhDeJS_aO5IOnPdmWyuJq3cdPKwGo4SRAemwd3ze5hRBIQqqXbjyimEajL0uxiwozHWYvLnyveu1u21kF3vd2Eq1r8dMNVRzRREXA_STbAlqWOvVMZpjG4esibm2tmjhXgxZJ842kkMD_zL19Nd5oquU9sjCTOEcJRW0OP/w279-h400/TeamIssue-0020.jpg" width="279" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hiromasa Saito</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizLguh_UumDQx6pWtId2BXzXi9M7ssUbcpR3RguqFVNNVJ7ZYXq3Ru2sJmfcUNJMzAmNvnisiJH0v8HNXUrsh12R8fcOgLvPWYV9J8MIioDKy_QS-UDfE5Hty4nujrQseR6bhqy8A5ZZSUewvRS81yECRtE4BSj5e3ZAk2myZ1xn891uRY7p-WltyV3DxH/s993/TeamIssue-0021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizLguh_UumDQx6pWtId2BXzXi9M7ssUbcpR3RguqFVNNVJ7ZYXq3Ru2sJmfcUNJMzAmNvnisiJH0v8HNXUrsh12R8fcOgLvPWYV9J8MIioDKy_QS-UDfE5Hty4nujrQseR6bhqy8A5ZZSUewvRS81yECRtE4BSj5e3ZAk2myZ1xn891uRY7p-WltyV3DxH/w274-h400/TeamIssue-0021.jpg" width="274" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Masato Saito</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoeFIqPH-f55_rE6PjKjTSMU53TO2tiYD_V6zfxImljaiNc8W-rRP_tlYBvslnSiu3BuLOZaxqhy4nuXU9uat-2TkEgA0uOwaTCZXYELoUjmhO1USSBqlK4hE4d4eP_lDTygjPgsZD-Q38nr8DHqPqLnsF84P09ptNPtu4YcklqCaeIOax5tZkR1_wXOFt/s994/TeamIssue-0022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="689" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoeFIqPH-f55_rE6PjKjTSMU53TO2tiYD_V6zfxImljaiNc8W-rRP_tlYBvslnSiu3BuLOZaxqhy4nuXU9uat-2TkEgA0uOwaTCZXYELoUjmhO1USSBqlK4hE4d4eP_lDTygjPgsZD-Q38nr8DHqPqLnsF84P09ptNPtu4YcklqCaeIOax5tZkR1_wXOFt/w278-h400/TeamIssue-0022.jpg" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wataru Takagi</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxKJKAEfQ2dsx8qK-mBCE2AVE0HEHj5DsKQdH4D-Zl1J1U4DlKMBYcwMH5ZAoLuy-Vs6fWhKKo9db0EngO0MEepzwijdvSM9IsaPfvn309_vTnFzlZ_2ejusK_bCcWctx8w4OiAZGByWGabo3iRUNPyyttFiSWaVxJ3r5gCj1QzHk5wpmoq4lq2uvfdVdn/s992/TeamIssue-0023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="689" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxKJKAEfQ2dsx8qK-mBCE2AVE0HEHj5DsKQdH4D-Zl1J1U4DlKMBYcwMH5ZAoLuy-Vs6fWhKKo9db0EngO0MEepzwijdvSM9IsaPfvn309_vTnFzlZ_2ejusK_bCcWctx8w4OiAZGByWGabo3iRUNPyyttFiSWaVxJ3r5gCj1QzHk5wpmoq4lq2uvfdVdn/w278-h400/TeamIssue-0023.jpg" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Towa Uema</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Ryan also found me a handful of the "L Collection Vol 1" cards that the Lions did with BBM last year. He got me 16 cards in all - ten base set cards and six "Hero" insert cards - but since you can see <a href="https://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/jambalaya/23baebb6cc.html" target="_blank">most of the cards from the set over at Jambalaya</a>, I'm only going to show a couple here:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl2egDrtjlDW3HFM6sq3mKgNPLLS-bEZsgL5c1PYcqJuXWC1aGUvjrZVs1_fPR1uKuzJ_g_Tk9QEBjKzahbNAap-_bmYDsH9M5Yip3Jd-6IC5ez_xmkQTrY8nW_QHsv6QgIVp9RnPitW2RI0EIM2ALyWHIo7dHr3Rb6V2wSYpc35Fku7s6U-LGOXMoENF9/s1021/TeamIssue-0024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl2egDrtjlDW3HFM6sq3mKgNPLLS-bEZsgL5c1PYcqJuXWC1aGUvjrZVs1_fPR1uKuzJ_g_Tk9QEBjKzahbNAap-_bmYDsH9M5Yip3Jd-6IC5ez_xmkQTrY8nW_QHsv6QgIVp9RnPitW2RI0EIM2ALyWHIo7dHr3Rb6V2wSYpc35Fku7s6U-LGOXMoENF9/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0024.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#LR18</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqXk6_zoxZA5Kt1b2N87z3zGvDIC9rseGbsGambO1JKOtVeYMhyn_YFIQ8MKmHr-2KYf1aicirlSU8jZiOVF7roGfoH9jgdTd4kC-T1EYwQiTiwzC_2BOMRjvqrSoTI42I_5qjyZXelKCxFc8szYzHfSgkMaowcYenFIx9nHSDh_CZUvOcl4B6tFUPo6o/s1021/TeamIssue-0025.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAqXk6_zoxZA5Kt1b2N87z3zGvDIC9rseGbsGambO1JKOtVeYMhyn_YFIQ8MKmHr-2KYf1aicirlSU8jZiOVF7roGfoH9jgdTd4kC-T1EYwQiTiwzC_2BOMRjvqrSoTI42I_5qjyZXelKCxFc8szYzHfSgkMaowcYenFIx9nHSDh_CZUvOcl4B6tFUPo6o/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0025.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#LR8</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjML02eaUTV1rcEOmBH3s-vAYEhMDDeE7Wf64RCUmYOmrYujU5t2ViLZiPw0uzo7yDdnkz_hRqhXzoSxc5tYYD4_HzpUI-Ktkf-nrPGQpXUhZqqCFodXtZnYPmdcZHNhHA48o_1o0cZ-potQ5aYMh0GpaoefZimkfloCCk0xEQJbAuXirqYfDWzrDBPxjLX/s1021/TeamIssue-0026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjML02eaUTV1rcEOmBH3s-vAYEhMDDeE7Wf64RCUmYOmrYujU5t2ViLZiPw0uzo7yDdnkz_hRqhXzoSxc5tYYD4_HzpUI-Ktkf-nrPGQpXUhZqqCFodXtZnYPmdcZHNhHA48o_1o0cZ-potQ5aYMh0GpaoefZimkfloCCk0xEQJbAuXirqYfDWzrDBPxjLX/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0026.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#LR12</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAN1lDcry9C0globUtOySYhUGjT_WVHaUzx0T1MZ3pNKMASrWAnBC12DD369lnQAJt_Jfq3eiWYA_lBWgTtoxurlTTvQbDml_RKQd5QPvnyPgD7QOmSZf9zgHc5_ulXWC7LD2H0Opb2AD8fX61eRmT5Q840EaUJUl81JSDdnl2nZQxVI7iWTjsrCWkC6cl/s1021/TeamIssue-0027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAN1lDcry9C0globUtOySYhUGjT_WVHaUzx0T1MZ3pNKMASrWAnBC12DD369lnQAJt_Jfq3eiWYA_lBWgTtoxurlTTvQbDml_RKQd5QPvnyPgD7QOmSZf9zgHc5_ulXWC7LD2H0Opb2AD8fX61eRmT5Q840EaUJUl81JSDdnl2nZQxVI7iWTjsrCWkC6cl/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0027.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#LH4</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX_YmuWqMu1D0Ot7BIbQeR2lPmCyiwS6zE7aczSWqkxN8wx1IjSZ1bXXPEI2OS6qWFHfYV0wdprn2c5aUY4mn_p9QZE656mPwMk4k9rzvDmwHkQlmZ6J6quhg10v7vELLa0K_FbBW-1C3Pc2ZvgTZu71QD7SogGa-Uh9XdJ2QLivc3ZOdbK5RD1vS9zVta/s1021/TeamIssue-0028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX_YmuWqMu1D0Ot7BIbQeR2lPmCyiwS6zE7aczSWqkxN8wx1IjSZ1bXXPEI2OS6qWFHfYV0wdprn2c5aUY4mn_p9QZE656mPwMk4k9rzvDmwHkQlmZ6J6quhg10v7vELLa0K_FbBW-1C3Pc2ZvgTZu71QD7SogGa-Uh9XdJ2QLivc3ZOdbK5RD1vS9zVta/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0028.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#LH12</td></tr></tbody></table><p>It took me a little while to figure out this next card. It looked like it could have been from the same set but it was labeled as a "2022" card (and featured Hatsuhiko Tsuji who was manager that year). It didn't look much like the 2022 "L Collection Vol 1" cards (don't ask me why they're called "vol 1" when I've yet to see any "vol 2" cards) but I wasn't sure where else it could be from. Here's the front and back of it:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9-FlgPKlEo9gTUIGfJ9SonE9RxfyXqygS0IFCWAZHb25yDDVMA2H6PbUrIu59svgHedajmVlYoRw68BUFJjrkuNS2BAYwTf64sFqOOI-uRI73OxPJFb-yxHCnZjowE5qmh5pyL9pU_1_5ghiaMGWFjLpha3W_wpINFXKSjANQvmSb8Wyo4cMiNjzSQi-/s1021/TeamIssue-0029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK9-FlgPKlEo9gTUIGfJ9SonE9RxfyXqygS0IFCWAZHb25yDDVMA2H6PbUrIu59svgHedajmVlYoRw68BUFJjrkuNS2BAYwTf64sFqOOI-uRI73OxPJFb-yxHCnZjowE5qmh5pyL9pU_1_5ghiaMGWFjLpha3W_wpINFXKSjANQvmSb8Wyo4cMiNjzSQi-/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0029.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6atBvadocCASioIKZr15KE1_tMAQTiLXB6oBh1KTusOuNWPa_eavKE6aSLG1IWG08riugmMpSLq_o_RZdVvMvGrurqiPKC7H31A_onjtn5UPC1ILQUUvg7d6mdHQ9Xd4Z8QDbXfysm7PJ997t3MxnHovVme1XlhmFRMxfMvuWbaqra1Ztm8B5YvLgDqrx/s1021/TeamIssue-0030.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6atBvadocCASioIKZr15KE1_tMAQTiLXB6oBh1KTusOuNWPa_eavKE6aSLG1IWG08riugmMpSLq_o_RZdVvMvGrurqiPKC7H31A_onjtn5UPC1ILQUUvg7d6mdHQ9Xd4Z8QDbXfysm7PJ997t3MxnHovVme1XlhmFRMxfMvuWbaqra1Ztm8B5YvLgDqrx/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0030.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><p>I did some searches on YJA and finally discovered what it was from. The Lions released several cards at their offseason "Thanks Festa" fan festival and this card was one of them. The letters in the card number (LTF05) stand for "Lions Thanks Festa".</p><p>Moving on from the Lions...Ryan also sent me a couple Baystars cards from last year:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKKeowQgJ3RxXDBtNZFfnGD_Kfcq-Pd_OrXHXXeg27eOy1Er1HHpTXA1dLvKVeNl0Aa33WeP0wKJr4PZruvvisc6mAyMKsDbnFhJQs0t99EUEAbgoKms8CGsqZ76Wr8wTWD7maOsklrGu7Q1g8-TcMk_ANI-CcOlafWjwbDfhOEPYQt7uksdB6VFFRwnb/s989/TeamIssue-0031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="989" data-original-width="698" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKKeowQgJ3RxXDBtNZFfnGD_Kfcq-Pd_OrXHXXeg27eOy1Er1HHpTXA1dLvKVeNl0Aa33WeP0wKJr4PZruvvisc6mAyMKsDbnFhJQs0t99EUEAbgoKms8CGsqZ76Wr8wTWD7maOsklrGu7Q1g8-TcMk_ANI-CcOlafWjwbDfhOEPYQt7uksdB6VFFRwnb/w283-h400/TeamIssue-0031.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivueMwPzZGprmfpIaCrMC9c3LE5XawVp-PfbZlRWxcXgyj-PvShynrMUtJGFbhj43CR0HhCKYzRST7CWPvy5l7-EQ347IRhQ2Xe47yTFtKtsN6lNZ0mRHQtVxDBcoZfzSSTjxiNPGK7U-tEoaXr-z6Ws6sMnZpjnBaPE1LJ1QwCpliKXv_kmqcF3MLxy4x/s989/TeamIssue-0032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="989" data-original-width="697" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivueMwPzZGprmfpIaCrMC9c3LE5XawVp-PfbZlRWxcXgyj-PvShynrMUtJGFbhj43CR0HhCKYzRST7CWPvy5l7-EQ347IRhQ2Xe47yTFtKtsN6lNZ0mRHQtVxDBcoZfzSSTjxiNPGK7U-tEoaXr-z6Ws6sMnZpjnBaPE1LJ1QwCpliKXv_kmqcF3MLxy4x/w283-h400/TeamIssue-0032.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><p>I usually struggle with figuring out what the name of any given team issued set is but I have a good guess at what to call these. Ryan sent them in their original packs. It's kind of hard to read it in the scan but the pack says "2023 Official Fanclub Card":</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-J67npeQOvyRY0BTF0HkAroYeLgd2aDcx6vIMwH2Kxjly0VhGyBBSz7CmECJEqtwSvmyDK5e9it4oHdGZCOJc6mEduNgte3ScA1ohuUApD1K80X42uoTmqw4sSn4R8MB-KFLKx-EXPmHaecu17cfZcSpU6yVgvGW2L0LrkUuhGrry_8SK2NG2njuNOnKv/s1199/TeamIssue-0035.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="753" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-J67npeQOvyRY0BTF0HkAroYeLgd2aDcx6vIMwH2Kxjly0VhGyBBSz7CmECJEqtwSvmyDK5e9it4oHdGZCOJc6mEduNgte3ScA1ohuUApD1K80X42uoTmqw4sSn4R8MB-KFLKx-EXPmHaecu17cfZcSpU6yVgvGW2L0LrkUuhGrry_8SK2NG2njuNOnKv/w251-h400/TeamIssue-0035.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><br /><p>The last card I want to show in this post isn't from an NPB team. Instead it's the 2010 Akashi Red Soldiers team card of Shouta Tougo. The Red Soldiers were a team in the Kansai Independent League back in 2009 and 2010 - the league itself only lasted from 2009 to 2013. Here's the front and back of the card:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCo2Bj_Zm1peF5UWyvwa2RGYn013QkW2-1gC4DBRjtZU5FV0GM7JWGv9dxZIjm0wpnCVgRrEOj2g-FbxRw8WOEkkF4ny_dRZi3NgEkVb5JIVnN5xgQGIrcXm5hRlQo3nHWHWXl4Pj8rYUsgLvnXfEBuz1_8Ysrwsu-DKViOVq0udWiPyvxDOjzZ2kbDkKH/s1021/TeamIssue-0033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCo2Bj_Zm1peF5UWyvwa2RGYn013QkW2-1gC4DBRjtZU5FV0GM7JWGv9dxZIjm0wpnCVgRrEOj2g-FbxRw8WOEkkF4ny_dRZi3NgEkVb5JIVnN5xgQGIrcXm5hRlQo3nHWHWXl4Pj8rYUsgLvnXfEBuz1_8Ysrwsu-DKViOVq0udWiPyvxDOjzZ2kbDkKH/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0033.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5063ojx6wQqYj_lLwR7l-3cuEUk6-zmzE-WiNN5SVah62VpqYyQ_DmyLUsNTN8p1zANnDYRYuLN_bGjUpOTTOsOdjEovammXA3-034d7wc3FWCJ1Btage-mM4_UDtOA4Qjp0xsWqsAv4vqpbG78AFW6e19TMjt8t9e7efOLTJzxtyWShOIStKlEZefC3/s1021/TeamIssue-0034.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji5063ojx6wQqYj_lLwR7l-3cuEUk6-zmzE-WiNN5SVah62VpqYyQ_DmyLUsNTN8p1zANnDYRYuLN_bGjUpOTTOsOdjEovammXA3-034d7wc3FWCJ1Btage-mM4_UDtOA4Qjp0xsWqsAv4vqpbG78AFW6e19TMjt8t9e7efOLTJzxtyWShOIStKlEZefC3/w290-h400/TeamIssue-0034.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><p>The implication of the card number in the lower right corner of the card back is that there's at least 15 other cards in the set. I've never seen any other ones though.</p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-4326465704374511522024-02-23T22:22:00.000-05:002024-02-23T22:22:15.324-05:00SCM And Other Magazine And Promo CardsOne of my collecting goals over the past few years has been to get all the baseball cards that were issued with Sports Card Magazine (SCM) over the years. With this batch of cards from <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> I am now just one card away from that goal. I thought I'd show off a bunch of the SCM cards I got although there's a few that I'll be including in other posts:<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDQbxaBxuCpKmp2r45e9vTvOBovzqq8CjN3aVzlR41PN5PFqPzjx9YshtzH_i-6SLkLdwR6NvW0glCvQ8AL-MnXKguscq_adzJ57tLg7sB4nM-Q5vwe548V6PBxnQ7A-7IxiyZ1ZW_YNDRbOIVFPQShWkkfSaR0ooG8ehRHwT1M7-8_Ys3DxZYCmMzea-/s1021/SCM-0001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDQbxaBxuCpKmp2r45e9vTvOBovzqq8CjN3aVzlR41PN5PFqPzjx9YshtzH_i-6SLkLdwR6NvW0glCvQ8AL-MnXKguscq_adzJ57tLg7sB4nM-Q5vwe548V6PBxnQ7A-7IxiyZ1ZW_YNDRbOIVFPQShWkkfSaR0ooG8ehRHwT1M7-8_Ys3DxZYCmMzea-/w290-h400/SCM-0001.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2003 SCM #27</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEo5BF4YacKy3JpYZ_JBC_9QY0pcLaRY7-ADRV5a1mTWMsg7x6qBLeIgL7X_lYsYB0kSH07Eb1uIgt37guE6t4CSZOyZSVi3lkV8v3LFk2gYQ33eEkx09PCeY9fALMA7ULTQEoLu-ZyWbHeL9m3_Vv9qV86SoxQrsSK4rRS6o8b0ZU5ckveLG0ECYs1flC/s1021/SCM-0002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEo5BF4YacKy3JpYZ_JBC_9QY0pcLaRY7-ADRV5a1mTWMsg7x6qBLeIgL7X_lYsYB0kSH07Eb1uIgt37guE6t4CSZOyZSVi3lkV8v3LFk2gYQ33eEkx09PCeY9fALMA7ULTQEoLu-ZyWbHeL9m3_Vv9qV86SoxQrsSK4rRS6o8b0ZU5ckveLG0ECYs1flC/w289-h400/SCM-0002.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2003 SCM #32</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeXn4OhyqhgEOGPLgQbK8QPzAiKGkB4r03adN82J7uFqFf0aVgOi55Kte0vARB7EOUDLELeU0tmU-MA0I27Ou7qa_2ZOM4TsOJtV3uTtv6jJMsRu5o92Oep9Y_fYyCBOnqO0yb4wbtJOqc48puOvmQDZOfOZT2SXxUt9-bzeheoVc-kE75Zv-j8PJMOfnP/s1021/SCM-0003.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeXn4OhyqhgEOGPLgQbK8QPzAiKGkB4r03adN82J7uFqFf0aVgOi55Kte0vARB7EOUDLELeU0tmU-MA0I27Ou7qa_2ZOM4TsOJtV3uTtv6jJMsRu5o92Oep9Y_fYyCBOnqO0yb4wbtJOqc48puOvmQDZOfOZT2SXxUt9-bzeheoVc-kE75Zv-j8PJMOfnP/w290-h400/SCM-0003.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2004 SCM #33</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsg60sPqBtMu6DFlk7rqbaU13cUz1Q_-etrBY5nLmlsO2DLK77Xg8BqkqYrji2H9VbauHzy5FQVb2cH6WY7RCGprDt3NAalaSSSxs7lzqKXBfAhSAtY-cVTsUOANMvn_ocsxx4P9GCaWgjyNFOLxEkpIW9NnuHCfM-yetMQjZcHlW1zLs25VS2hFfJPUnu/s1021/SCM-0004.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsg60sPqBtMu6DFlk7rqbaU13cUz1Q_-etrBY5nLmlsO2DLK77Xg8BqkqYrji2H9VbauHzy5FQVb2cH6WY7RCGprDt3NAalaSSSxs7lzqKXBfAhSAtY-cVTsUOANMvn_ocsxx4P9GCaWgjyNFOLxEkpIW9NnuHCfM-yetMQjZcHlW1zLs25VS2hFfJPUnu/w290-h400/SCM-0004.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2004 SCM #37</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOzMwaKm1m0NuLDwNB1ZKIfnOC59BGWYoI112EtvWmDSRcSTPUwSgr7uPcWAO3MvMGYOLoxdjg2MiZhbQlzmyP9nkx027M0FlhWhZ9HFTHO6P9IUppWUVXsW5BBd3umGGG7I9c3b3QKCTGEPvFikeX7W7dHiieChMDgLJOj60gs0QLFiKilQdRjf4XZNhg/s1021/SCM-0005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOzMwaKm1m0NuLDwNB1ZKIfnOC59BGWYoI112EtvWmDSRcSTPUwSgr7uPcWAO3MvMGYOLoxdjg2MiZhbQlzmyP9nkx027M0FlhWhZ9HFTHO6P9IUppWUVXsW5BBd3umGGG7I9c3b3QKCTGEPvFikeX7W7dHiieChMDgLJOj60gs0QLFiKilQdRjf4XZNhg/w290-h400/SCM-0005.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5J_gWyVpbDZdnGAcN4PEi2P4YNL0QWM1kZ45EvxfJ0SWpoc0ERD0cSRaiFgzdrQIQkWpWao8Qv2pXpjk4M66qHj3vK3wnKmxVDj6JkxRH2jFbYlCC5p6HZ3kKnF8W5pyFgVH3Hroq-fpf-TkXFC_ibBKjIsWhswP3i-tmbEL1rtjWb5YfAQmivaKZdtCb/s1021/SCM-0006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5J_gWyVpbDZdnGAcN4PEi2P4YNL0QWM1kZ45EvxfJ0SWpoc0ERD0cSRaiFgzdrQIQkWpWao8Qv2pXpjk4M66qHj3vK3wnKmxVDj6JkxRH2jFbYlCC5p6HZ3kKnF8W5pyFgVH3Hroq-fpf-TkXFC_ibBKjIsWhswP3i-tmbEL1rtjWb5YfAQmivaKZdtCb/w290-h400/SCM-0006.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80aGEQ8udILo77DxpjuTlb4s8-ENrN1q26pKwC8j94Ea4iRfs2lo5ai9SO5iVXzWohFO8W3gs0cVPRAQj7mI7QJxtZ1yf113J51QLSshfCkVvtdIK0TMEV0gH25ydvUESkFah_B9u0DXJVMG2rZHeJ8QdCl67sKRBp9qZhX4cSGCx1k1WX80p0b3arTSm/s1021/SCM-0007.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80aGEQ8udILo77DxpjuTlb4s8-ENrN1q26pKwC8j94Ea4iRfs2lo5ai9SO5iVXzWohFO8W3gs0cVPRAQj7mI7QJxtZ1yf113J51QLSshfCkVvtdIK0TMEV0gH25ydvUESkFah_B9u0DXJVMG2rZHeJ8QdCl67sKRBp9qZhX4cSGCx1k1WX80p0b3arTSm/w290-h400/SCM-0007.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2008 SCM #108</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1KciHyoeod7PWl-0vmFlTsvh6NWOIEvAetDTjnj6os2TP5jhywWHLLIIKvfQ07PtNQTKR03Duwj8b3vY6COaW5K0g-dc2hXsWe9tDc7NuV0Yoxq1gbTY4ZGd9tOcpQk9NZxsDGKmDp_gMFcJaipIO8xE1GpDOpgEYRw5Mnjm4RuE3gZBxKW21MvpWFyFj/s1021/SCM-0008.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="733" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1KciHyoeod7PWl-0vmFlTsvh6NWOIEvAetDTjnj6os2TP5jhywWHLLIIKvfQ07PtNQTKR03Duwj8b3vY6COaW5K0g-dc2hXsWe9tDc7NuV0Yoxq1gbTY4ZGd9tOcpQk9NZxsDGKmDp_gMFcJaipIO8xE1GpDOpgEYRw5Mnjm4RuE3gZBxKW21MvpWFyFj/w288-h400/SCM-0008.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2008 SCM #110</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7DIcqi1QXBRY9xJ8THoj-R7LQOEzkx9wCbwjZ3gTGNlkNd7QpXgdKyz6NAjl9LAlQ3g13rNPsGkmOQrEm_oknimNWMGOp5XVQHAhjL5EFyr5yKVBaVEUo_j0sCwQKnp2-QUquWkhIpy7lk4HCCLESH3rTQ-s7KEC0KD3abOLqd7I3o00yf-JRuwgKfb7y/s1021/SCM-0009.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7DIcqi1QXBRY9xJ8THoj-R7LQOEzkx9wCbwjZ3gTGNlkNd7QpXgdKyz6NAjl9LAlQ3g13rNPsGkmOQrEm_oknimNWMGOp5XVQHAhjL5EFyr5yKVBaVEUo_j0sCwQKnp2-QUquWkhIpy7lk4HCCLESH3rTQ-s7KEC0KD3abOLqd7I3o00yf-JRuwgKfb7y/w290-h400/SCM-0009.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2008 SCM #111</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzyygwOEmRLPyGz-D5cr8esqGAYwHX5OvMo44RnJH63Jp7yKJqbn3KpB1uui4xP7nU_RFeJQRgEfOElEjRXr9uv3Rq_QBGZAt7JqIjQ5SVS9hIIYgm1JPj0BT3c6uR8J2ifZ-s2JOJEke2A3bD6rgo5pg871r9ew05wVKXFZVBE9sgRQcAEIUw1RZHITUW/s1021/SCM-0010.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzyygwOEmRLPyGz-D5cr8esqGAYwHX5OvMo44RnJH63Jp7yKJqbn3KpB1uui4xP7nU_RFeJQRgEfOElEjRXr9uv3Rq_QBGZAt7JqIjQ5SVS9hIIYgm1JPj0BT3c6uR8J2ifZ-s2JOJEke2A3bD6rgo5pg871r9ew05wVKXFZVBE9sgRQcAEIUw1RZHITUW/w290-h400/SCM-0010.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2009 SCM #117</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUL2Y9PlOvDmWx7K6iKXfb2Jr_sm7NYECnsOQkYN3ZqOkY26cKpLpXQSMcdWZeUbMURpGaUIDgU5z80yun67dWTqh-3FojOGG4r5vp4TYhX75kKfOQY1jih5fNQgseadYOVOTwiubE_0kIobApH5PjB8UQ0EGFaeN-y6YYy-EW-SjGYqsZvAHwQ8Pg-xO-/s1021/SCM-0011.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUL2Y9PlOvDmWx7K6iKXfb2Jr_sm7NYECnsOQkYN3ZqOkY26cKpLpXQSMcdWZeUbMURpGaUIDgU5z80yun67dWTqh-3FojOGG4r5vp4TYhX75kKfOQY1jih5fNQgseadYOVOTwiubE_0kIobApH5PjB8UQ0EGFaeN-y6YYy-EW-SjGYqsZvAHwQ8Pg-xO-/w289-h400/SCM-0011.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2009 SCM #127</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4RKd5CsUubH0uew60NXInqIy09P2X_pbjHS1nDdH3HJyOIzh-6mgbMXxFyaGx233YCwYWv7wuoYY53_OCky6Brj7ZbAUq05NXXg5YZBcrmPNjfq1F-0gpzLgHrkVyP4SAAmj-Gu9SGKT4wC3j6LA5T6F3Gi9e8Ue1RwPSxGptuPaAXe2-ZlG4yUxM8Cu2/s1021/SCM-0012.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4RKd5CsUubH0uew60NXInqIy09P2X_pbjHS1nDdH3HJyOIzh-6mgbMXxFyaGx233YCwYWv7wuoYY53_OCky6Brj7ZbAUq05NXXg5YZBcrmPNjfq1F-0gpzLgHrkVyP4SAAmj-Gu9SGKT4wC3j6LA5T6F3Gi9e8Ue1RwPSxGptuPaAXe2-ZlG4yUxM8Cu2/w290-h400/SCM-0012.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2009 SCM #131</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJL29uDhlmSEZWyhHJbMdZKxEGmSSwyJfnKLRoIVKZFUWaoIyGDKreVAy15YJx0sskAJOIREk363OQxQe8Mh9ws8bd8MCR0IqfFaNZLPvdVT94D1i4my8KkR4vWJkcuIjbG3Z84riPsb0QeQrz3FBL-xU-q8T0BrrmXaM08unYqWOHv0JykjbOvSU0o7jM/s1021/SCM-0013.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJL29uDhlmSEZWyhHJbMdZKxEGmSSwyJfnKLRoIVKZFUWaoIyGDKreVAy15YJx0sskAJOIREk363OQxQe8Mh9ws8bd8MCR0IqfFaNZLPvdVT94D1i4my8KkR4vWJkcuIjbG3Z84riPsb0QeQrz3FBL-xU-q8T0BrrmXaM08unYqWOHv0JykjbOvSU0o7jM/w290-h400/SCM-0013.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2010 SCM #159</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zPscjjFsuX7S4gjRxocEL9ziOELNa8pf3Rn7W0peDeFOpHJpYnqqVgIlVBEDT3OQJQKbrV6z2BBgsjypXwXGLBOsXf-7DK7xZiAEfAAtXWZKV6Y-zlc_GfDTVAQhI1b35cFhjmFT-AgIG0U-hmWIkjntGEM44RiMgw-KosvMwzvwlWbdswPS55D3daLi/s1021/SCM-0014.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zPscjjFsuX7S4gjRxocEL9ziOELNa8pf3Rn7W0peDeFOpHJpYnqqVgIlVBEDT3OQJQKbrV6z2BBgsjypXwXGLBOsXf-7DK7xZiAEfAAtXWZKV6Y-zlc_GfDTVAQhI1b35cFhjmFT-AgIG0U-hmWIkjntGEM44RiMgw-KosvMwzvwlWbdswPS55D3daLi/w290-h400/SCM-0014.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2010 SCM #161</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>One of my other goals has been getting all the cards issued in Shukan (Weekly) Baseball's annual "Season Memorial" magazine from 2005 to 2016. I came across this card of Tomoaki Kanemoto from the 2005 edition on Yahoo! Japan Auctions (YJA) and asked Ryan to pick it up for me:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrSwNqCeFQJNb3LzCT-sGwrxBAtcPEinDSp4kgfG6nLDBg3-wEf9Tk6ZAkEYq3slXExYyICh5bRV15KXbKVG6pJYGZ961En9EtMvse6kF9FmzkHlm-74K3fIzEGklkBiSDG2wjg4tG3tpT9tGTHaAYrnXF-UEcAZ1aRLzim5C-Es7MfWhNNdc3pprvhfBb/s1021/Shukan-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrSwNqCeFQJNb3LzCT-sGwrxBAtcPEinDSp4kgfG6nLDBg3-wEf9Tk6ZAkEYq3slXExYyICh5bRV15KXbKVG6pJYGZ961En9EtMvse6kF9FmzkHlm-74K3fIzEGklkBiSDG2wjg4tG3tpT9tGTHaAYrnXF-UEcAZ1aRLzim5C-Es7MfWhNNdc3pprvhfBb/w289-h400/Shukan-0001.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><div>There were some Shukan Baseball promo cards for a couple Rookie Edition sets in the lot of Lions cards that included <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2024/02/card-of-week-february-18.html" target="_blank">the Daisuke Matsuzaka "Super Rookie" card</a>. The interesting thing about these is that unlike most promos for Rookie Edition, these feature a different photo than the actual card.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8nWWTy3PVNBDYS6WlFUTS47D_yH0xFuw5OenS_AlkXezsAr-fWjWQmOlSCn0KPsBncaUlkF90vR9o7DBEkNULC8lkbkOgMQ-3063NEir_OoeG5zsREM3r8P2SQOMMqgB4MdshYbmynl1hoj8gHl_nLHAsoMSe43nFkfmCo17sEs3wiFspt9R-N4PagtbU/s1021/Shukan-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8nWWTy3PVNBDYS6WlFUTS47D_yH0xFuw5OenS_AlkXezsAr-fWjWQmOlSCn0KPsBncaUlkF90vR9o7DBEkNULC8lkbkOgMQ-3063NEir_OoeG5zsREM3r8P2SQOMMqgB4MdshYbmynl1hoj8gHl_nLHAsoMSe43nFkfmCo17sEs3wiFspt9R-N4PagtbU/w400-h290/Shukan-0002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir9m9ZtTTQhCU261oFplJJwY6WT6drw5WFcPXDOseAJgew6-Qog6FCXWNSS_ibo6GAsjSJPhnsZA4jjy2C3y3nBlwga6Zr9dvUJG95-Wu1JrdG_C0elw0LHWlXEML5UNJt8jApEQKrvbbs6c51F5mIx7Y58wQ66eQOEmXJ6xAz7494Jg0-vNC0EVOKwSU8/s1021/Shukan-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir9m9ZtTTQhCU261oFplJJwY6WT6drw5WFcPXDOseAJgew6-Qog6FCXWNSS_ibo6GAsjSJPhnsZA4jjy2C3y3nBlwga6Zr9dvUJG95-Wu1JrdG_C0elw0LHWlXEML5UNJt8jApEQKrvbbs6c51F5mIx7Y58wQ66eQOEmXJ6xAz7494Jg0-vNC0EVOKwSU8/w290-h400/Shukan-0003.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP2EIgDYPjtW5r6WqA3PjQeGU7vL1XveizNfBw290i7I-yogCV1at61S94ZoWjAaO7yQcrXEAEEa-YUF6yxr4wMo5GSHKTK2Ld8yPZ2XANpy9-etQ8bBCFr85msYye3CboOIKjU4r4kVAac1ayhjra3JHyHZhYdJLDDxpulmCPKOLD7Pcj2zhG5aH0e9XF/s1021/Shukan-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="733" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP2EIgDYPjtW5r6WqA3PjQeGU7vL1XveizNfBw290i7I-yogCV1at61S94ZoWjAaO7yQcrXEAEEa-YUF6yxr4wMo5GSHKTK2Ld8yPZ2XANpy9-etQ8bBCFr85msYye3CboOIKjU4r4kVAac1ayhjra3JHyHZhYdJLDDxpulmCPKOLD7Pcj2zhG5aH0e9XF/w288-h400/Shukan-0004.jpg" width="288" /></a></div>Yet another goal of mine is to get all 36 cards that were issued in "<a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/p/baseball-magazine-cards.html" target="_blank">Baseball Magazine</a>" between 2004 and 2008. This Isao Harimoto card is the 29th of the cards:<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90AUK6LzPksGtuqOZkCPaNaqJpuRlHMVI0gWBZJ1OW0OdLVLQ3gCnBHrTC7Yg_e3gCPNtzGrtzSjlDeL_N5FQ3f7cdC6VggtoDgFrydBhjF5UzRg-RgFyW6nwKYMC3UTFYbJ6h2g7ep-2mj08G_S7VoDpNnPsO7c6l7OdOlAERo04-OUFVueC_4CgjUpx/s1034/Shukan-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="734" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90AUK6LzPksGtuqOZkCPaNaqJpuRlHMVI0gWBZJ1OW0OdLVLQ3gCnBHrTC7Yg_e3gCPNtzGrtzSjlDeL_N5FQ3f7cdC6VggtoDgFrydBhjF5UzRg-RgFyW6nwKYMC3UTFYbJ6h2g7ep-2mj08G_S7VoDpNnPsO7c6l7OdOlAERo04-OUFVueC_4CgjUpx/w284-h400/Shukan-0005.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br /><div><div><div>It's hard to track these cards down for two reasons. The first is that I don't know for sure who's on the cards I'm missing and the second is that it's very difficult to get a search going in Mercari or Yahoo! Japan Auctions where you can differentiate between "Baseball Magazine" the card company and "Baseball Magazine" the magazine.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>The game programs sold during the interleague portion of the 2006 NPB schedule included two baseball cards - one for each of the teams in that particular game. There ended up being 60 cards in all - five per team. I had seen these listed in Engel but it wasn't until last year sometime when I saw one on YJA and asked Ryan to grab it for me:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVA0uGgc9KcDYJZbCLk24R5WPNZbJGooC3nNfkOWwRAWpMhrrgXVSLCemMJaYim7sgh96dm4mseNF5Rvvy_-Kee5v60xKU7LOL660pe4imZVa4aIS11_IDrzyTNO3IFq8r29t_u7D_3tuKCy7EZ-w1nahvFbkhqqhoVUNnl-DndKIEyG46jrZT0LZAZBAj/s1034/Shukan-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="733" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVA0uGgc9KcDYJZbCLk24R5WPNZbJGooC3nNfkOWwRAWpMhrrgXVSLCemMJaYim7sgh96dm4mseNF5Rvvy_-Kee5v60xKU7LOL660pe4imZVa4aIS11_IDrzyTNO3IFq8r29t_u7D_3tuKCy7EZ-w1nahvFbkhqqhoVUNnl-DndKIEyG46jrZT0LZAZBAj/w284-h400/Shukan-0006.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><br /><div>I've often said that cards issued with magazines are one the biggest unknown areas of Japanese baseball cards. There's no list anywhere that I've ever seen that says what's out there. Case in point - this 2023 Shota Imanaga card. I suspect it's from some Baystars magazine or maybe the team's year book but I have no idea. It's got a card number of #YM01 which implies there are more cards. Actually since the card number has a leading zero, it implies that there's more than nine cards. But I don't know anything else about the set.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmbeZo4qScBbjHtKoVxUGxbcGfq35PCc6qe-7DtfD_A8AxJ6bjOQuP3NOByAVSwL4sVa9HtmFeIMd-clIAQuKBJJLWzgjIKRiCQt9h56hbfbRKiziEyAdWvgBym4RDpmnDBk3IqSA5pkcztNv_JhhMNVWJZwoXQf4CyHsTgYcbi-6vrdPvKGTQ_DB7KMvX/s1021/Shukan-0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="737" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmbeZo4qScBbjHtKoVxUGxbcGfq35PCc6qe-7DtfD_A8AxJ6bjOQuP3NOByAVSwL4sVa9HtmFeIMd-clIAQuKBJJLWzgjIKRiCQt9h56hbfbRKiziEyAdWvgBym4RDpmnDBk3IqSA5pkcztNv_JhhMNVWJZwoXQf4CyHsTgYcbi-6vrdPvKGTQ_DB7KMvX/w289-h400/Shukan-0007.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><div>I'm also want to show off a couple random promo cards that were in the box. Most of these came in the lot of Lions cards while the other was in the lots for Haruki Nishikawa of the Fighters - it should be pretty obvious which cards came from which lot.</div><div><br /></div><div>This first card is double sided:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCisMEljvonGUZARv_Md1hGCKZCGjdv-fG3Q1cG0a1QLQngilznrqmaLAHGCaVeyLu37o8O3DarQ0eJArSltuYirqcOT4JaPAlBwQzB-0riQijPtbtIN-1OyxuYQwY5-LEAyJ3iHx2UTeBkzZCVig_JnwDABfVzcF_d92xfEQkAGybxUYYGW9CnawJs-vl/s1021/Shukan-0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCisMEljvonGUZARv_Md1hGCKZCGjdv-fG3Q1cG0a1QLQngilznrqmaLAHGCaVeyLu37o8O3DarQ0eJArSltuYirqcOT4JaPAlBwQzB-0riQijPtbtIN-1OyxuYQwY5-LEAyJ3iHx2UTeBkzZCVig_JnwDABfVzcF_d92xfEQkAGybxUYYGW9CnawJs-vl/w290-h400/Shukan-0008.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzQrIye0j0Xhh40IQ2eAqZOJhGdLlIb856vqZu_-WiyXq2eKMr-MiwBH6wsM-AbYWFGLsNmHgob17__eErlIGcPIziDjLSZtNWOWL2cbemDBeTTIOUiTpmeMa5sdF6dNMzCQ-cc3-0sRjKeqhHY60jNUa8-tSqedkJvbrdnTqGWNMe2gYJ_yxcvKzHQpwg/s1021/Shukan-0009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzQrIye0j0Xhh40IQ2eAqZOJhGdLlIb856vqZu_-WiyXq2eKMr-MiwBH6wsM-AbYWFGLsNmHgob17__eErlIGcPIziDjLSZtNWOWL2cbemDBeTTIOUiTpmeMa5sdF6dNMzCQ-cc3-0sRjKeqhHY60jNUa8-tSqedkJvbrdnTqGWNMe2gYJ_yxcvKzHQpwg/w290-h400/Shukan-0009.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div>This next card is also double-sided. I actually have no idea what set this is a promo for:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMTKt9YrhmTzlCwmet-pcyHEVy8vmP7VMgaHPM0OS2Chfcnn5fAtzZPihsQjXJ_DHBWbbnVIESh-FZWeZ6Q7R2X9Q2iq-6TYu66EgZIf-WS3lzaLyS6OVS3Q_NuM1l8jq3gov5sAyu24WF5UPv6qA0Ii0IGzwWJaXa89PhCQ-BEiSo2JYtVYibqjloH5i/s1021/Shukan-0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzMTKt9YrhmTzlCwmet-pcyHEVy8vmP7VMgaHPM0OS2Chfcnn5fAtzZPihsQjXJ_DHBWbbnVIESh-FZWeZ6Q7R2X9Q2iq-6TYu66EgZIf-WS3lzaLyS6OVS3Q_NuM1l8jq3gov5sAyu24WF5UPv6qA0Ii0IGzwWJaXa89PhCQ-BEiSo2JYtVYibqjloH5i/w400-h290/Shukan-0010.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLUxxR3FipcF7dFsgKMAhmdIJG8Ch3gn6mbMTjb2_CDogF3UIMW2-e5OPzO_3TewD4aT03NJGlzutRyo95QwGspK2aPH-4dVcY7DKDj0la2MMvbYvZ8CxNQ9rtf0ad35zrf2he2a09i1xG0Pmu7249VgUX6djEXWO5lF6QkzqlElU3SBjzlvtwHfl7l_d5/s1021/Shukan-0011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLUxxR3FipcF7dFsgKMAhmdIJG8Ch3gn6mbMTjb2_CDogF3UIMW2-e5OPzO_3TewD4aT03NJGlzutRyo95QwGspK2aPH-4dVcY7DKDj0la2MMvbYvZ8CxNQ9rtf0ad35zrf2he2a09i1xG0Pmu7249VgUX6djEXWO5lF6QkzqlElU3SBjzlvtwHfl7l_d5/w400-h290/Shukan-0011.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>I got a couple other "Book Store Special Card" promos:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmI5piSsujAohJVeKnWyJ1J9xjkxbI6jn1pMdofydjMUoPdl-AIn3XBDLMi5qpKb1L8dKTeQ4ez2YCzqN6gwz2h_MOxPQ3uo__bxdLuVrgCYQGG5kWLI2Zx-sLepTzQubM7kQglhJ2obIMuSH_V_SxScaIkGYCYEJfIPlIb0VfA6FmTgYG9V7EFX1H-pZL/s1021/Shukan-0012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmI5piSsujAohJVeKnWyJ1J9xjkxbI6jn1pMdofydjMUoPdl-AIn3XBDLMi5qpKb1L8dKTeQ4ez2YCzqN6gwz2h_MOxPQ3uo__bxdLuVrgCYQGG5kWLI2Zx-sLepTzQubM7kQglhJ2obIMuSH_V_SxScaIkGYCYEJfIPlIb0VfA6FmTgYG9V7EFX1H-pZL/w290-h400/Shukan-0012.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnO70Bp-iPF4Et0MYG7G5FRt0YTEOOKb9rm5-FUm6xvpOcs9ckBtScOcRmjbRRBZ97Mnz5UyHLhcN9SKolMTLM_hO_5W-83JP9xbo6lot3lcIJeMS0r9j3-5EQtpGOUZI6qOIloxswbwAGAH_DWJRTtSn3_osaQSqo5tjBt4wLZRcbOkshf2BMEilcCHcb/s1021/Shukan-0013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="735" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnO70Bp-iPF4Et0MYG7G5FRt0YTEOOKb9rm5-FUm6xvpOcs9ckBtScOcRmjbRRBZ97Mnz5UyHLhcN9SKolMTLM_hO_5W-83JP9xbo6lot3lcIJeMS0r9j3-5EQtpGOUZI6qOIloxswbwAGAH_DWJRTtSn3_osaQSqo5tjBt4wLZRcbOkshf2BMEilcCHcb/w288-h400/Shukan-0013.jpg" width="288" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3Lgj-6dCxgBEuaNm1mUsEV9Graos99ba59YbhrOCUUPmz3FgkrRfCrN9xQ7XvqpJUoU64I6vyGh6pjk9WYCZjo4uz_NA_JuiUp2uIcn31LNyJwsN5ErDaYBWQtHbRTx1YLJKVSMhppLOsNaA7XxI6XFuaXlb3Ddk5a5OB6GukolyPaOF_vpKlECwpXk3/s1021/Shukan-0014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3Lgj-6dCxgBEuaNm1mUsEV9Graos99ba59YbhrOCUUPmz3FgkrRfCrN9xQ7XvqpJUoU64I6vyGh6pjk9WYCZjo4uz_NA_JuiUp2uIcn31LNyJwsN5ErDaYBWQtHbRTx1YLJKVSMhppLOsNaA7XxI6XFuaXlb3Ddk5a5OB6GukolyPaOF_vpKlECwpXk3/w400-h290/Shukan-0014.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>Lastly I got a "Fighters Foundation" card for Takuya Nakashima. This card uses roughly the same design as the 2017 BBM Fighters set but the photo is different. This is <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2018/02/card-of-week-february-25.html" target="_blank">the second "Fighters Foundation" card</a> that I have. Like the Imanaga card, I have no idea how many cards like them are out there. Actually since the cards are unnumbered, I can't even guess how many cards there are.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7KhYI20e0tPpsclVIN4fv7e5YVX_rMouTB1PShaKIk9wFMtYSKChILnIC_Lbg6h_XcMUe9HVMT28Kpu8M18azYPsR9T3TbL2OtbZFTYZFSPiZjmGoUNF64-J8WgLUra2CDp_zqR3UvzlhykwZo4Q380mpX6Ear7dtz0Hh9wBvi6ItApa7_a4vU-Ul3bdf/s1021/Shukan-0015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="736" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7KhYI20e0tPpsclVIN4fv7e5YVX_rMouTB1PShaKIk9wFMtYSKChILnIC_Lbg6h_XcMUe9HVMT28Kpu8M18azYPsR9T3TbL2OtbZFTYZFSPiZjmGoUNF64-J8WgLUra2CDp_zqR3UvzlhykwZo4Q380mpX6Ear7dtz0Hh9wBvi6ItApa7_a4vU-Ul3bdf/w289-h400/Shukan-0015.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-14017346971039582312024-02-22T21:28:00.000-05:002024-02-22T21:28:19.996-05:002023 Topps Samurai Japan Set<p>Last spring Topps put a set of cards for the World Baseball Classic Champion Samurai Japan on sale on their Japanese website. If you were in Japan, the set cost 7700 yen but the shipping was free but if you were in the US, the set was "only" 7000 yen (the 700 is the VAT for Japanese citizens) but shipping was 3900 yen. While I had ordered the Topps Now <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2022/12/topps-now-samurai-japan-cards.html" target="_blank">cards</a> and <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/01/topps-now-samurai-japan-team-set.html" target="_blank">set</a> for the friendly matches against Australia in November of 2022 directly from Topps, I decided to ask <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> to order this set for me. As a result, of course, I didn't get the set until last week. </p><p>The set contained 36 total cards - the 33 card base set and three random parallels or other cards. There were eight different types of parallels available - "Rainbow" (unnumbered), "Cherry Blossom" (/150), "Blue" (/88), "Green" (/77), "Purple" (/25), "Yellow" (/10), "Red" (/7) and "Gold" (1 of 1). The other possible inserts were two different Ichiro cards (one for the 2006 WBC team and the other for the 2009 team) and a game used relic of some sort for Roki Ssaski that was numbered to 10.</p><p>The base set contains cards for all 31 members of the team along with manager Hideki Kuriyama. There's also a team card showing the team hoisting the WBC trophy. This is the only WBC cards for several players including Takuya Kai and Soichiro Yamazaki and the only Topps WBC cards for Yuki Matsui, Yuki Udagawa and Kuriyama.</p><p>The cards are OK. I'm not a big fan of the design as I prefer borderless cards. On the plus side, the photos are pretty good although I think Lars Nootbaar's photo was also used in the Topps 2 WBC Stars set. All the text on the cards is in Japanese. Here's some of the cards as examples:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAfamg0Mjc7dzK2yL5zBIfY_6EPQkMQuv0UwLwB2NHbirOJH1RZ-vQPOZmZZroyEawlj-2aJWWiALSuXAQ1B3xi0w_6bsFAz0pHvrn-LEbnTio5Jjofsz4Bix6VdGRSoSWuNvOntxrAlqPWhPFFZ6A_ZJzZMmYbHbvsSSnUMuv0nQLVnyE4MoVFKWXCl-T/s1021/SJ-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAfamg0Mjc7dzK2yL5zBIfY_6EPQkMQuv0UwLwB2NHbirOJH1RZ-vQPOZmZZroyEawlj-2aJWWiALSuXAQ1B3xi0w_6bsFAz0pHvrn-LEbnTio5Jjofsz4Bix6VdGRSoSWuNvOntxrAlqPWhPFFZ6A_ZJzZMmYbHbvsSSnUMuv0nQLVnyE4MoVFKWXCl-T/w400-h290/SJ-0001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#17 Shohei Ohtani</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hI_cRxVeasGa5ZSpy7I_Io-UlYyP9x7I6K4BxBim3w-q2RvTcWDnhS6QR2_jNUXG91WHuGG7KTEAJCtYBDvb5w5DqKZoWrV204LmKgDw_7s-OefG47R3kkzHfZFrV5MyCFl0ynTDfh8DWidMfybU0z4AV52M52maoS-3mtinR4mJhHuIj03ABQR1WhZd/s1021/SJ-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hI_cRxVeasGa5ZSpy7I_Io-UlYyP9x7I6K4BxBim3w-q2RvTcWDnhS6QR2_jNUXG91WHuGG7KTEAJCtYBDvb5w5DqKZoWrV204LmKgDw_7s-OefG47R3kkzHfZFrV5MyCFl0ynTDfh8DWidMfybU0z4AV52M52maoS-3mtinR4mJhHuIj03ABQR1WhZd/w290-h400/SJ-0002.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#28 Masataka Yoshida</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDRs34ImGVPfpai6-hllP-E_aJzNvTibCwG5QrFhgQcUNLtOx_iYRUVJ4zMH0sdLue9nVlMOd0U41Gd1FXR_tP3Wk-X_19JYsGio6kKGn2iS_5yvYqsbWMJlZJEIXYpVX3IGCM4gVODaZbb5ylV5hU0EnCX9kXCJVbIzTX7yVq1NesV6gdm5PhJ-L9X3J/s1021/SJ-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDRs34ImGVPfpai6-hllP-E_aJzNvTibCwG5QrFhgQcUNLtOx_iYRUVJ4zMH0sdLue9nVlMOd0U41Gd1FXR_tP3Wk-X_19JYsGio6kKGn2iS_5yvYqsbWMJlZJEIXYpVX3IGCM4gVODaZbb5ylV5hU0EnCX9kXCJVbIzTX7yVq1NesV6gdm5PhJ-L9X3J/w400-h290/SJ-0003.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#5 Soichiro Yamazaki</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9G-SVZ4ivKDKsrES5zw77a7lFJ1SDKGTwxQ_O52aKkU4bbU0P2Nlp_boBhsuAVOAz3PqufO4NzAvJkGLMTpBlXIzrJlH7EXuedrlz31ozw8jTcKfoyvd7dqJ_GFvUojXjqtNqoY8tvrGayAYWQjDp7oYejZBoR50QDTH1pAyMMr6oxf-cDvtgOujn8W_4/s1021/SJ-0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9G-SVZ4ivKDKsrES5zw77a7lFJ1SDKGTwxQ_O52aKkU4bbU0P2Nlp_boBhsuAVOAz3PqufO4NzAvJkGLMTpBlXIzrJlH7EXuedrlz31ozw8jTcKfoyvd7dqJ_GFvUojXjqtNqoY8tvrGayAYWQjDp7oYejZBoR50QDTH1pAyMMr6oxf-cDvtgOujn8W_4/w290-h400/SJ-0004.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#18 Takumu Nakano</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNHij1uW8dlBZDOzQqrpFmGjIky4qFSt5kmGBc3peZ-1ytyFyimo3uzy8P6GE2hm274SUxc6NMskiEG9vO_AP34Bem7UTbzk_zCRSJU2bD-xAn4Oc5ffyjILnbvBemQCoJULyYu_AA7pj947jzXcb45ida3rfQMzKAtxredh0gOPgs4cKRLhcP43qV-KW/s1021/SJ-0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrNHij1uW8dlBZDOzQqrpFmGjIky4qFSt5kmGBc3peZ-1ytyFyimo3uzy8P6GE2hm274SUxc6NMskiEG9vO_AP34Bem7UTbzk_zCRSJU2bD-xAn4Oc5ffyjILnbvBemQCoJULyYu_AA7pj947jzXcb45ida3rfQMzKAtxredh0gOPgs4cKRLhcP43qV-KW/w400-h290/SJ-0005.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#15 Yuki Udagawa</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ALEQObSeCBK75rQ6kObEu5JWa9kwt7TOikX8BTvE3P02ZHbayaAXkdegeUD-ZdRjqp-OXmmYuDOJCz9HSWtUKf4lz_HeyfWYYB73m9bu_h8cDkgSegRrS2-_FK87F0Ixc9s3u1OWEvbulmvreYeAHCJDwiRkFqRf-udpvt2Ue0Npw7OKgWNJqEuEaKj-/s1021/SJ-0006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ALEQObSeCBK75rQ6kObEu5JWa9kwt7TOikX8BTvE3P02ZHbayaAXkdegeUD-ZdRjqp-OXmmYuDOJCz9HSWtUKf4lz_HeyfWYYB73m9bu_h8cDkgSegRrS2-_FK87F0Ixc9s3u1OWEvbulmvreYeAHCJDwiRkFqRf-udpvt2Ue0Npw7OKgWNJqEuEaKj-/w290-h400/SJ-0006.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#22 Yuhei Nakamura</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBsI8T8MVwtWFR4emLTQ97xmlXUZzWHBaTW82YWYXOLwW3U6WylldYG4LT6Y-6Jn-8QkND1T-nP0JcsutQG36wp1PLZxjp45mjsn3cf0yNJ1J53R39B7dnEs9fZfpFcyjiqZkiC418clGMw_cC_cETvC-WFZFM6oP5AbeOae1aP0tCTfAr-lCxKUE92yN0/s1021/SJ-0007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBsI8T8MVwtWFR4emLTQ97xmlXUZzWHBaTW82YWYXOLwW3U6WylldYG4LT6Y-6Jn-8QkND1T-nP0JcsutQG36wp1PLZxjp45mjsn3cf0yNJ1J53R39B7dnEs9fZfpFcyjiqZkiC418clGMw_cC_cETvC-WFZFM6oP5AbeOae1aP0tCTfAr-lCxKUE92yN0/w400-h290/SJ-0007.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#13 Hideki Kuriyama</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I know this is going to come as a complete shock but Topps but very little effort into the backs of these cards. I know, right? What a surprise! Every card has the same paragraph on the back of it along with the player's name. Here's the back of Tetsuto Yamada's card:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMNLKCIMJ0scTdSncZ6iKyIIjG68VoPB959_MkoqHOufyTvrpi7krsWviHPtZClyWwJa5RtGLuHmC_GzJwjFm-tQj6uICi-99zSIAl4NPztH8z3G7uc-jtu589ByZS1tY5zDfxnGFPItVvVjdWHRWn7xgOZIF09RBp_ubtVZdBjSYvn23U49SRuzGU1wV/s1021/SJ-0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMNLKCIMJ0scTdSncZ6iKyIIjG68VoPB959_MkoqHOufyTvrpi7krsWviHPtZClyWwJa5RtGLuHmC_GzJwjFm-tQj6uICi-99zSIAl4NPztH8z3G7uc-jtu589ByZS1tY5zDfxnGFPItVvVjdWHRWn7xgOZIF09RBp_ubtVZdBjSYvn23U49SRuzGU1wV/w400-h290/SJ-0008.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And here's the Google translation of the text:<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl1H81jTiOV5D2MLqpGJhpQoYyF-XBn8QMdAA3A8gE5bcRaWAeEgc5M-tl_B6c2ZTw50arhQuRPLyv2vUMsLtTRqIycrxjRI0xlVJC_UAU5m8YroGQ1yYQ4VnwDgBkxdtBLyzAFPeM3nbtb_z6Qzr8hyphenhyphenxnWTW2rx94fGqnUmTpGvl72aPLdf5QfhHKCJ3d/s1284/image0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1284" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl1H81jTiOV5D2MLqpGJhpQoYyF-XBn8QMdAA3A8gE5bcRaWAeEgc5M-tl_B6c2ZTw50arhQuRPLyv2vUMsLtTRqIycrxjRI0xlVJC_UAU5m8YroGQ1yYQ4VnwDgBkxdtBLyzAFPeM3nbtb_z6Qzr8hyphenhyphenxnWTW2rx94fGqnUmTpGvl72aPLdf5QfhHKCJ3d/w400-h345/image0.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><p>I got three parallel cards with my set. Here they are:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1dEvQZWjsu1sV7bBlUbLcvDn39TwbBGehJVLLK7-vJ2cVGloV939DOmEtQmD5FFvKMgK9gYZCpM_o9_XN8ShciVe0XImbi5eHQvKdaC7HcJfPOpWTeNyl_6SSIrTTfaoZpCbAoEp-BubTyqwSHKzpkZ5E2dQRZeOaOCEJWXZPtZJ0XTW-vaPRDxxxWbK/s1021/SJ-0009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1021" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1dEvQZWjsu1sV7bBlUbLcvDn39TwbBGehJVLLK7-vJ2cVGloV939DOmEtQmD5FFvKMgK9gYZCpM_o9_XN8ShciVe0XImbi5eHQvKdaC7HcJfPOpWTeNyl_6SSIrTTfaoZpCbAoEp-BubTyqwSHKzpkZ5E2dQRZeOaOCEJWXZPtZJ0XTW-vaPRDxxxWbK/w400-h290/SJ-0009.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#1 Team Card</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDebFdsAkb-UFb3uyPEV2e3Xd6p_IjjO3oHkkGpL9AUl9bPDGFXZ992xqJkE9NUoWCr3Okkbyw9pXIMGnzRiwQcGG4LS0KcLuG5d0UjKIeKztqDJhXOVDLGX5blozCYmlFGihT1Ilrx5-gCt6xxvWmSNwGYImmcujNaX5fOtc5xq55EnkMDOStv9sepiM/s1021/SJ-0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDebFdsAkb-UFb3uyPEV2e3Xd6p_IjjO3oHkkGpL9AUl9bPDGFXZ992xqJkE9NUoWCr3Okkbyw9pXIMGnzRiwQcGG4LS0KcLuG5d0UjKIeKztqDJhXOVDLGX5blozCYmlFGihT1Ilrx5-gCt6xxvWmSNwGYImmcujNaX5fOtc5xq55EnkMDOStv9sepiM/w290-h400/SJ-0010.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">31 Shosei Togoh</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqj9gWDmfKzmD-pY0kuTmx4u2hd0zUcEj7yf9rRETNpJTj4hF5ZJ8V4Rzky_RBvzzZe-dgwzE600C37HksjyEEjUXdC-g6GbCX2MnqMlUufwsAy1K13nKXDiYkoxA2b9fmQmt-KUciTO8XzQxDDgVUNWuGOdiwdc-bZQA_nqM_775SzAZIzLa2o1OIm1Qg/s1021/SJ-0011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="740" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqj9gWDmfKzmD-pY0kuTmx4u2hd0zUcEj7yf9rRETNpJTj4hF5ZJ8V4Rzky_RBvzzZe-dgwzE600C37HksjyEEjUXdC-g6GbCX2MnqMlUufwsAy1K13nKXDiYkoxA2b9fmQmt-KUciTO8XzQxDDgVUNWuGOdiwdc-bZQA_nqM_775SzAZIzLa2o1OIm1Qg/w290-h400/SJ-0011.jpg" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#19 Yoshinobu Yamamoto</td></tr></tbody></table><p>As usual, you can see all the cards over at <a href="https://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/jambalaya/2023toppsw.html" target="_blank">Jambalaya</a>.</p></div>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-75641947385404920482024-02-21T20:53:00.000-05:002024-02-21T20:53:00.650-05:00Nippon-Ham Home Run Sausage Cards<p>From 2016 to 2019, Nippon-Ham, the owners of the Fighters, teamed up with BBM to issue "Home Run Sausage" cards. These cards only included players from the Fighters and <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2019/07/nippon-ham-home-run-sausage-cards.html" target="_blank">were issued with either a pack of some foul tasting sausage or a not bad tasting mini-cheesecake</a>. The sets were essentially "comprehensive" team sets for the Fighters as I think all the players on the team's 70-man roster had cards in the set (at least at the time the sets were released) although there were separate series in each year so some players had multiple cards.</p><p>One of the things I like about these cards is that the four years they were issued coincided with the four years that the Fighters did early spring training in Arizona. Many of the cards in the first series each year feature photos that were obviously taken there. (I assume it's a coincidence that the cards were issued in the same time period that the team training in Arizona but who knows?)</p><p>There were a bunch of "Home Run Sausage" cards in that box from <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> that I received last week. I had asked him to pick up card lots for Haruki Nishikawa and Takuma Nakashima that both featured the Nippon-Ham cards as well as some team issued cards and some promos. Additionally I asked him to pick up an 11 card lot from the 2018 set.</p><p>I'm going to show off all the cards from these sets that I got. It'll be pretty obvious which lot was the source for the card. First up is the sole 2016 card I got:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52-Fovv-hgLT190MbZh3TVLIkP7HwQARskpygN1Bg8l21l4R7UdWJ6dmvXuz3Y4jq-iCXfs1TjTySXUqB6N3HOWOeWECW1JON4Dg1dU98rSKTOJ_miFmKK8GWzNvSco57cas5XdymJhjmbjKxNKMqvb2BV4dgMxrC5KW9vIEXpFKuVdp1zhdSdU4JnZBx/s998/Nippon-Ham-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="685" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg52-Fovv-hgLT190MbZh3TVLIkP7HwQARskpygN1Bg8l21l4R7UdWJ6dmvXuz3Y4jq-iCXfs1TjTySXUqB6N3HOWOeWECW1JON4Dg1dU98rSKTOJ_miFmKK8GWzNvSco57cas5XdymJhjmbjKxNKMqvb2BV4dgMxrC5KW9vIEXpFKuVdp1zhdSdU4JnZBx/w275-h400/Nippon-Ham-0001.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><p>There was also only one 2017 card:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQib6Im8ISg_YZJpirunUHQoziflrdC7TGokYcvGHayVM6rTAnxqpcpNck0a4SiBBYrxnSaN7mnn_m-Ifx08tT4BLSEdXpbXRldNLm_Dn5srkTvjP8OhRLn4llbMTNPoiJkHOdg5XBrrLpoH1HVWk4MXv9G0b83xHwIAcf-zqEVYye4NnknxiiZXXzvFhm/s1000/Nippon-Ham-0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="686" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQib6Im8ISg_YZJpirunUHQoziflrdC7TGokYcvGHayVM6rTAnxqpcpNck0a4SiBBYrxnSaN7mnn_m-Ifx08tT4BLSEdXpbXRldNLm_Dn5srkTvjP8OhRLn4llbMTNPoiJkHOdg5XBrrLpoH1HVWk4MXv9G0b83xHwIAcf-zqEVYye4NnknxiiZXXzvFhm/w275-h400/Nippon-Ham-0002.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><p>Between the 11 card lot and both player lots, I ended up with 13 cards from the 2018 set:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh834lYSg4s73Nx3sQi0NO4hXDpxf6zHk0sdS0-1ygZMfIx0_bxpuooj6KqYm8GmIGLkJTOiFghDEq8TSx_85S-uYEdFWW5BgfJbA-H9lEyNk94l5z1Lmr58DtYKNV-00aJ8GRKy_Bj51b8NZkCb5lqFq4lG0-bQJUMOGEOQ0PyknVnwnmWXm2sWi49y2ka/s1000/Nippon-Ham-0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="686" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh834lYSg4s73Nx3sQi0NO4hXDpxf6zHk0sdS0-1ygZMfIx0_bxpuooj6KqYm8GmIGLkJTOiFghDEq8TSx_85S-uYEdFWW5BgfJbA-H9lEyNk94l5z1Lmr58DtYKNV-00aJ8GRKy_Bj51b8NZkCb5lqFq4lG0-bQJUMOGEOQ0PyknVnwnmWXm2sWi49y2ka/w275-h400/Nippon-Ham-0003.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1096" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0s1AMRm1eN0CyVMjGp7LFrDMmbi-_KobYs6IrtWC06AAE2ovcWUf4HVxw6jNUdsDOJj-HP0v2b973wksPmxqz4JjPzBtrZs2eaUnQjX9CHMo8Oo2K4s8_2YtnKxFfWVZWTt4eZj_frLTOkRhL1PjJKs2Ph-h6CWLWHfH9y0x4oEWEBk8wFmwMdZUywOmn/w469-h640/Nagashima%20Mag%205.jpg" width="469" /></a></div><br /><p>Ten years ago BBM was in the middle of publishing a series of "mooks" (magazine/books) about Shigeo Nagashima. Issue number one was released on June 3rd of 2013 and subsequent issues were published on the third of each following month with the twelfth and final issue being published on May 3rd, 2014. The monthly publication on the third was appropriate since Nagashima's uniform number was 3.</p><p>Each issue dealt with a separate time period in Nagashima's baseball career. <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4583619766/ref=sr_1_5?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8_3xDiWN_do9tiFMKFJTdjp6mErF1h9e4jTZdiizDXINaRl4AYRpVgCU_ZWs4sLYFUbnW-WaphKa7Ve52C_mLp2y31c4bCtvSQ2CG15s8_oSvEHu6-qjqfN5Q5Wu2sesMf_Q9ZTBMV5LFF9LemS0urBTp8ktgOh0WcIGCiPT2t8Yy6oPqy06xYyHCujsaZUeWQSLFJmCWNPhQ65hApck5SdUOgJCPuuci-wWcJnu66c.ucXrp5oj89bS4cUPfRWkUf04wqtdqt2lBtbvslP38Qk&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E9%95%B7%E5%B6%8B%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84&qid=1708370814&s=books&sr=1-5" target="_blank">Issue #1</a> covered his rookie year of 1958 while <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4583619944/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8_3xDiWN_do9tiFMKFJTdjp6mErF1h9e4jTZdiizDXINaRl4AYRpVgCU_ZWs4sLYFUbnW-WaphKa7Ve52C_mLp2y31c4bCtvSQ2CG15s8_oSvEHu6-qjqfN5Q5Wu2sesMf_Q9ZTBMV5LFF9LemS0urBTp8ktgOh0WcIGCiPT2t8Yy6oPqy06xYyHCujsaZUeWQSLFJmCWNPhQ65hApck5SdUOgJCPuuci-wWcJnu66c.ucXrp5oj89bS4cUPfRWkUf04wqtdqt2lBtbvslP38Qk&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E9%95%B7%E5%B6%8B%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84&qid=1708371041&s=books&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Issue #2</a> covered 1959. <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4583619952/ref=sr_1_7?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8_3xDiWN_do9tiFMKFJTdjp6mErF1h9e4jTZdiizDXINaRl4AYRpVgCU_ZWs4sLYFUbnW-WaphKa7Ve52C_mLp2y31c4bCtvSQ2CG15s8_oSvEHu6-qjqfN5Q5Wu2sesMf_Q9ZTBMV5LFF9LemS0urBTp8ktgOh0WcIGCiPT2t8Yy6oPqy06xYyHCujsaZUeWQSLFJmCWNPhQ65hApck5SdUOgJCPuuci-wWcJnu66c.ucXrp5oj89bS4cUPfRWkUf04wqtdqt2lBtbvslP38Qk&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E9%95%B7%E5%B6%8B%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84&qid=1708370814&s=books&sr=1-7" target="_blank">The third issue</a> was dedicated to his collegiate career at Rikkio University from 1953 to 1958. <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4583619960/ref=sr_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8_3xDiWN_do9tiFMKFJTdjp6mErF1h9e4jTZdiizDXINaRl4AYRpVgCU_ZWs4sLYFUbnW-WaphKa7Ve52C_mLp2y31c4bCtvSQ2CG15s8_oSvEHu6-qjqfN5Q5Wu2sesMf_Q9ZTBMV5LFF9LemS0urBTp8ktgOh0WcIGCiPT2t8Yy6oPqy06xYyHCujsaZUeWQSLFJmCWNPhQ65hApck5SdUOgJCPuuci-wWcJnu66c.ucXrp5oj89bS4cUPfRWkUf04wqtdqt2lBtbvslP38Qk&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E9%95%B7%E5%B6%8B%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84&qid=1708371041&s=books&sr=1-4" target="_blank">The fourth issue</a> dealt with 1960 and <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4583619979/ref=aod_recs_desktop_prsubs_0" target="_blank">the fifth</a> covered 1961. I couldn't find either the sixth or seventh issue on Amazon.co.jp but I think they covered the time periods of 1962-63 and 1964-66 respectively. <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4583620004/ref=sr_1_15?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8_3xDiWN_do9tiFMKFJTdjp6mErF1h9e4jTZdiizDXINaRl4AYRpVgCU_ZWs4sLYFUbnW-WaphKa7Ve52C_mLp2y31c4bCtvSQ2CG15s8_oSvEHu6-qjqfN5Q5Wu2sesMf_Q9ZTBMV5LFF9LemS0urBTp8ktgOh0WcIGCiPT2t8Yy6oPqy06xYyHCujsaZUeWQSLFJmCWNPhQ65hApck5SdUOgJCPuuci-wWcJnu66c.ucXrp5oj89bS4cUPfRWkUf04wqtdqt2lBtbvslP38Qk&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E9%95%B7%E5%B6%8B%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84&qid=1708371041&s=books&sr=1-15" target="_blank">Issue #8</a> dealt with the years 1967-70 and <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4583620012/ref=sr_1_8?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8_3xDiWN_do9tiFMKFJTdjp6mErF1h9e4jTZdiizDXINaRl4AYRpVgCU_ZWs4sLYFUbnW-WaphKa7Ve52C_mLp2y31c4bCtvSQ2CG15s8_oSvEHu6-qjqfN5Q5Wu2sesMf_Q9ZTBMV5LFF9LemS0urBTp8ktgOh0WcIGCiPT2t8Yy6oPqy06xYyHCujsaZUeWQSLFJmCWNPhQ65hApck5SdUOgJCPuuci-wWcJnu66c.ucXrp5oj89bS4cUPfRWkUf04wqtdqt2lBtbvslP38Qk&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E9%95%B7%E5%B6%8B%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84&qid=1708371041&s=books&sr=1-8" target="_blank">Issue #9</a> covered 1971-73. <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4583620020/ref=sr_1_9?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8_3xDiWN_do9tiFMKFJTdjp6mErF1h9e4jTZdiizDXINaRl4AYRpVgCU_ZWs4sLYFUbnW-WaphKa7Ve52C_mLp2y31c4bCtvSQ2CG15s8_oSvEHu6-qjqfN5Q5Wu2sesMf_Q9ZTBMV5LFF9LemS0urBTp8ktgOh0WcIGCiPT2t8Yy6oPqy06xYyHCujsaZUeWQSLFJmCWNPhQ65hApck5SdUOgJCPuuci-wWcJnu66c.ucXrp5oj89bS4cUPfRWkUf04wqtdqt2lBtbvslP38Qk&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E9%95%B7%E5%B6%8B%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84&qid=1708371041&s=books&sr=1-9" target="_blank">The tenth issue</a> commemorated 1974, the final season of his playing career with the final two issues covered his time as manager of the Giants with <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4583620039/ref=sr_1_3?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8_3xDiWN_do9tiFMKFJTdjp6mErF1h9e4jTZdiizDXINaRl4AYRpVgCU_ZWs4sLYFUbnW-WaphKa7Ve52C_mLp2y31c4bCtvSQ2CG15s8_oSvEHu6-qjqfN5Q5Wu2sesMf_Q9ZTBMV5LFF9LemS0urBTp8ktgOh0WcIGCiPT2t8Yy6oPqy06xYyHCujsaZUeWQSLFJmCWNPhQ65hApck5SdUOgJCPuuci-wWcJnu66c.ucXrp5oj89bS4cUPfRWkUf04wqtdqt2lBtbvslP38Qk&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E9%95%B7%E5%B6%8B%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84&qid=1708371041&s=books&sr=1-3" target="_blank">Issue #11</a> dealing with his first stint from 1975 to 1980 and <a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/4583620047/ref=sr_1_13?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8_3xDiWN_do9tiFMKFJTdjp6mErF1h9e4jTZdiizDXINaRl4AYRpVgCU_ZWs4sLYFUbnW-WaphKa7Ve52C_mLp2y31c4bCtvSQ2CG15s8_oSvEHu6-qjqfN5Q5Wu2sesMf_Q9ZTBMV5LFF9LemS0urBTp8ktgOh0WcIGCiPT2t8Yy6oPqy06xYyHCujsaZUeWQSLFJmCWNPhQ65hApck5SdUOgJCPuuci-wWcJnu66c.ucXrp5oj89bS4cUPfRWkUf04wqtdqt2lBtbvslP38Qk&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E9%95%B7%E5%B6%8B%E8%8C%82%E9%9B%84&qid=1708370814&s=books&sr=1-13" target="_blank">Issue #12</a> dealing with the second from 1993 to 2001.</p><p>Each issue included a pair of Nagashima baseball cards. I've been aware of these magazines for years but I hadn't seen any of the cards until I came across an auction last summer for a six card lot. I asked <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> to pick it up for me and we got it for only 521 yen. They were in the box I got from him last week.</p><p>The cards have a shiny front. I think some of the photos may have been colorized. The cards I got were from issues #1, #7 and #10 and the backs contain information for the year(s) highlighted by that issue of the magazine. The photos probably come from those years as well although it's difficult to say that for sure. For each pair of cards (or at least for the pairs that I have), the back of the first card is labelled "The Record" and has his statistics for the time period in question and a little write up of his performance while the back of the second card is labeled "The Matchup" and (I think) has text about a particular matchup or rivalry he had. The "1958" matchup talks about him being struck out by Masaichi Kaneda four times in his first NPB game while I think the "1964-66" matchup talks about his rivalry with the Hanshin Tigers and Minoru Murayama.</p><p>Here's the front and back of each of the six cards I have:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmuq3AJ8wYc4_QsbMDjrl5c_vGaCGcJvRUivz4R0_ADe7USqmrjOjsxkF2pW2cy5444YLJqxzIS1S_yLD0TRMQaRbx45H49fkwwHHz7qAdMpoSZSJLuWOLOfmJIcvQN9qFkaXJ0Oq04OgBmHujnvA-uXrxNu3RTHt_qQKgkJM3j0m8-2BuBzn9FesPhVSZ/s1021/Nagashima-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmuq3AJ8wYc4_QsbMDjrl5c_vGaCGcJvRUivz4R0_ADe7USqmrjOjsxkF2pW2cy5444YLJqxzIS1S_yLD0TRMQaRbx45H49fkwwHHz7qAdMpoSZSJLuWOLOfmJIcvQN9qFkaXJ0Oq04OgBmHujnvA-uXrxNu3RTHt_qQKgkJM3j0m8-2BuBzn9FesPhVSZ/w289-h400/Nagashima-0001.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVJZsp0GIVfskLs3WVIfcRyCnTnLBpYr4YpggfKrXM49kV1odgLm_ZoLLDucAwM68cvbkzvM3YEF5aLfh0Se4_DL_16OFmPG-HmKtDajt0d_OON1x9el84N4jnHe8XbZ6818BxljZ3u4qs7dCRsXtfwrlUUw-unJHv3VepORmyRe0Ul0g6m8XooZrs0nI8/w289-h400/Nagashima-0012.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><p>I think it's kind of interesting that there's nothing on the cards to indicate when they were made. The copyright line on the back doesn't have the year and the BBM logo on the front is year-less as well. </p><p>While these are interesting, I don't think I'm going to make much of an effort to find the other 18 cards. I have <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2014/03/2014-epoch-ob-club-shigeo-nagashima.html" target="_blank">the 2014 Epoch "Shigeo Nagashima Memorial Treasures" set</a> and I'm currently working on completing the 1999 BBM Mr Giants set so I think I'm good on biographical cards of Shigeo Nagashima. But if I come across more cards while I'm looking for something else, I might ask Ryan to grab them.</p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-48399763824684934122024-02-18T21:15:00.001-05:002024-02-20T11:57:33.613-05:00JWBL Cards<p><a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> had sent me a handful of cards for the Japan Women's Baseball League (JWBL) and I thought I'd do a quick post on them.</p><p>First up is a card from the 2011 BBM set for the league when it was still called the "Girl's Professional Baseball League" (GPBL). <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/05/trying-to-make-sense-of-2011-bbm-gpbl.html" target="_blank">I've written about this set before</a> so really all I'm going to say about it is that it's the "kira" card for Maya Kawaho:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFt9RCDLliCSE8EOnK_yauUjZYRmV52VbaamQyXipQoZNe7VgJih_eRBR-b0ZRiBGjd84ppZJB8-7YQb_Ut04XRpKmC053J84Xa0E8JNcBmiDNZ2uVPWzpboYL1RA5RHrT0rLsWIBiwkHRRpZ1FFbwFs7rvCtkXdEASstoyepVmSs8V1ev6QXvpAXIn8fr/s1021/JWBL-0001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFt9RCDLliCSE8EOnK_yauUjZYRmV52VbaamQyXipQoZNe7VgJih_eRBR-b0ZRiBGjd84ppZJB8-7YQb_Ut04XRpKmC053J84Xa0E8JNcBmiDNZ2uVPWzpboYL1RA5RHrT0rLsWIBiwkHRRpZ1FFbwFs7rvCtkXdEASstoyepVmSs8V1ev6QXvpAXIn8fr/w289-h400/JWBL-0001.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2011 BBM GPBL #40</td></tr></tbody></table><p>AIAIO did cards for the JWBL from 2013 (if not earlier) to 2019 (if not later). Ryan picked up these two unnumbered cards from the 2013 set for me:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_U_qctF2kEIVdYpXm-SeWyndwFJH0LDYv-654BJydEZ05_HS-fjLL7EItV-1wNaSpz51f6v_nw9eRSBTvc5Cmz9m3n5KecI0b0XvctrGQ3BwStKtYEvrQA_yY5St-J1ptshDDtrO4ZtaS74Bis81XeTzJGYAgs1i-pdb2emw1VALF_BY9Nwo92kaT2_ah/s1000/JWBL-0002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="684" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_U_qctF2kEIVdYpXm-SeWyndwFJH0LDYv-654BJydEZ05_HS-fjLL7EItV-1wNaSpz51f6v_nw9eRSBTvc5Cmz9m3n5KecI0b0XvctrGQ3BwStKtYEvrQA_yY5St-J1ptshDDtrO4ZtaS74Bis81XeTzJGYAgs1i-pdb2emw1VALF_BY9Nwo92kaT2_ah/w274-h400/JWBL-0002.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHzTdT7hBY8jPZ7tGvtM53mXbA9zosHsdstguc89uHU5Le1v1tc2cpLb0eoGhldnrC1_1-pt0Xv1ckWgoE7Sk_mpwryPsTTzZeSIXvwHrM8qjFcvliGzvNHAeRaLoflbX6r60TTbcuqj7sngFAgYJ6Z43DiK_UH-aCvbGIzKW_hTpLwu1i0kgry9KmyJY/s994/JWBL-0006.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT6GhFcAl9O-wt4zUTB-I_PAQbWU059qQY-6wIk9hLzswNUWHIJ-0wOYPpoKX6xE2OK0RvmklNGaEG_o1W_9wiaYAkBLaT7ZLnvtJfNNAV3kUPpYWW1JzQKIEwfGd2Cmx-dOvvyf0UVpUnvpMrw0xzAMsQgt3fo2LicOQyoqlIWuT1LBjRNZDsJ9IR9c-G/s997/JWBL-0007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="997" data-original-width="689" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT6GhFcAl9O-wt4zUTB-I_PAQbWU059qQY-6wIk9hLzswNUWHIJ-0wOYPpoKX6xE2OK0RvmklNGaEG_o1W_9wiaYAkBLaT7ZLnvtJfNNAV3kUPpYWW1JzQKIEwfGd2Cmx-dOvvyf0UVpUnvpMrw0xzAMsQgt3fo2LicOQyoqlIWuT1LBjRNZDsJ9IR9c-G/w276-h400/JWBL-0007.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><p>He also picked up these two 2017 cards for me:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9F0cckY2cTYcmHZCxQd2EGdKD-0R2huZra8ws3J90y04Q3b8C1O80P6qapEtZa0NzY3YfOeMnOQHXGSAx-kbqymWpxjrsLPr2vSNn4jNUQSXGBxMKL6o-QqqJVDYau2ts3wwzuP08I5A_OqT53pHuiTcRxrcjn4T7itBgb00phPV0Wt4vNx3qyKZDyWgJ/s1000/JWBL-0004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="686" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOIWlnDpTjL8VXXpdyqZZsJxyS4P6evkihw7v6IjfEq6Msl5n26sHEt3lUeEk-3E_nyWLMcpgwDpREhJswDXaMwoIotyUc8CUkJoBfa565EvXrScsBMbyp2Eo1gV0Qm6cJ4vrx5yRivBrCgPi6KCRnJ_hbzR3veU_lVUeYUloqL4SBzSIqysCe_DEfje5_/w274-h400/JWBL-0009.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><p>I believe that those are real signatures on the front of the cards although that could just be wishful thinking. </p><p>These cards help a little in the ongoing struggle to <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/05/trying-to-make-sense-of-2017-aiaio-jwbl.html" target="_blank">make sense of the 2017 AIAIO JWBL cards</a>. Kawabata's card is the first 2017 card I've seen with a card number with an "04" suffix. Taniyama's card number has an "05" suffix on it and the card design matches the design of the only other 2017 card I have with an "05" suffix - Ayami Sato (which is somewhat fitting to me personally since I saw these two pitchers face off against each other at <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2019/08/trip-overview-part-8-day-10-nagoya.html" target="_blank">the JWBL game I went to in 2019</a>). </p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-81706022974650987572024-02-18T10:27:00.000-05:002024-02-18T10:27:14.206-05:00Card Of The Week February 18<p>As I was going through all the cards I got from <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> this past week, I came across a big lot of Lions cards, mostly BBM but with a couple Calbees and a Broccoli card mixed in. I remembered asking Ryan to pick it up but I couldn't remember why. There were 40 or so cards in it that were mostly a mix of flagship, Rookie Edition, Rookie Edition Premium and Lions team set cards for several players who were no longer with the Lions - Hideto Asamura, Hideaki Wakui, Yusei Kikuchi, Shogo Akiyama and Tomoya Mori. I was kind of scratching my head at why I was interested in the lot since I already had a lot of the cards in it. But then I hit this card and it all came back to me:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Yoq-GC9KBH2KBI1wn78P6GtR-IITfSBR5i00gLYch0mogohNRU6GX1ViPaUaB3J5_X8RaVlmSSamXROJK5pD7WUojCbivr-xfDQu_apn6DQowm0yGAARVSpKQp277SwmcX4FdMxMKiuc30SLfyzV3ajkO1_JAJSRkj-RqZJFH0I4UgFt8NO83oCe-svp/s1021/COTW-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Yoq-GC9KBH2KBI1wn78P6GtR-IITfSBR5i00gLYch0mogohNRU6GX1ViPaUaB3J5_X8RaVlmSSamXROJK5pD7WUojCbivr-xfDQu_apn6DQowm0yGAARVSpKQp277SwmcX4FdMxMKiuc30SLfyzV3ajkO1_JAJSRkj-RqZJFH0I4UgFt8NO83oCe-svp/w289-h400/COTW-0001.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><p>This is Daisuke Matsuzaka's "Super Rookie" insert card from the 1999 BBM Diamond Heroes set (#SR2). The insert set only had two cards with Koji Uehara being the other one. It's a lenticular card that has two separate images of Matsuzaka on it - the scan looks odd because you see parts of both images. I took a couple photos to show the two images:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7zUtctCAlbLcXcub0tz0tDrGBRSeHoBz96H07_B9TBzq4yuGQSPnmY7-1Dco6AFtDnnDgALx8afIBtq7p2z67QQG6JV88h_Eh6QSNZjz2VD0ew1csP_wElvY2d1C8XQSjlyoQ8QoMP-Xnlr7Hlq01TDiChZcE7H25KZQOP4g_-CkjpEyOhkZhPj2gDiTu/s2260/IMG_3008.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2260" data-original-width="1683" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7zUtctCAlbLcXcub0tz0tDrGBRSeHoBz96H07_B9TBzq4yuGQSPnmY7-1Dco6AFtDnnDgALx8afIBtq7p2z67QQG6JV88h_Eh6QSNZjz2VD0ew1csP_wElvY2d1C8XQSjlyoQ8QoMP-Xnlr7Hlq01TDiChZcE7H25KZQOP4g_-CkjpEyOhkZhPj2gDiTu/w298-h400/IMG_3008.jpeg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRmWpWnFGCf3OF3WNlfUlNlK-DAVc5WIBD0E-SA9v2ZrxLbhiCt72uVIB5OnPGgLceO_qDh1xeorR1zUJJzVRFgVtWok7E_FyBilb1VceigHrdrzJXCfH7OeU2EZqmF2s-XKm482ZfDV4d9itoFWTdl_a-udLdO1PrhyTRwAldbVhIoUt5pMn_TitGbIh/s1664/IMG_3011.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1627" data-original-width="1664" height="391" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRmWpWnFGCf3OF3WNlfUlNlK-DAVc5WIBD0E-SA9v2ZrxLbhiCt72uVIB5OnPGgLceO_qDh1xeorR1zUJJzVRFgVtWok7E_FyBilb1VceigHrdrzJXCfH7OeU2EZqmF2s-XKm482ZfDV4d9itoFWTdl_a-udLdO1PrhyTRwAldbVhIoUt5pMn_TitGbIh/w400-h391/IMG_3011.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>This was the key card in the lot and why I asked Ryan to pick it up. I thought these cards were a little rarer than they actually are so it probably would have been more cost effective to just pick up the card rather than the entire lot. But I did get some Lions cards out of it that I wouldn't have had otherwise so it wasn't a complete waste of money.</p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-31252868494024572822024-02-17T22:06:00.003-05:002024-02-20T11:57:02.604-05:00Epoch One Cards<p>As usual part of the contents of that big box of cards I got from <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> this past week was a bunch of Epoch One cards. As you will no doubt recall, Epoch One is basically the NPB equivalent of Topps Now - on demand cards available for a limited amount of time on the card maker's website. In the case of Epoch One, the cards are available for three days and cost 500 yen each. </p><p>As with Topps Now, Epoch One cards can be found on the secondary market, although usually for more than the 500 yen they originally sold for. Ryan picked up these two older cards for me from (I think) Mint Mall and Yahoo! Japan Auctions - the Saitoh card commemorates his final appearance with the Fighters' farm team while I just liked the Toritani photo:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_FMiBJNE9qDveig5H95XGpm8HxjTDjCZcJsXprshrOfPgjnsgBZuZ-j3RhswIr_VXsoMbRVgc6y5fQwINKCTORJTkh_vRGz6CXQMdClVfTixlugb5oYS77ZcYwHEdJaSJSQAFrvqchBYfPFQ6EEdi9xviQy7i0x6DEsrgmgYH3abw-DNWOVSpG9hvT3hd/s1021/EpochOne-0001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_FMiBJNE9qDveig5H95XGpm8HxjTDjCZcJsXprshrOfPgjnsgBZuZ-j3RhswIr_VXsoMbRVgc6y5fQwINKCTORJTkh_vRGz6CXQMdClVfTixlugb5oYS77ZcYwHEdJaSJSQAFrvqchBYfPFQ6EEdi9xviQy7i0x6DEsrgmgYH3abw-DNWOVSpG9hvT3hd/w400-h289/EpochOne-0001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2019 Epoch One #410</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMhzcOs0c3YrgnEayvXM14PP2r2IoYQfS-AcX_Zu0b5vjB2Ok8U97lYavTThuvh5PQtpYgWhr0Ya4aXAItyrTOihwy7cV0FSYiP3L_HkPRTTFag6nPp4XzFQ10xPoUGLlKJWu2oS21prpfF7P8IxvVzDudWsSilLMjZue_oNT8oAMsDvmNnCQ1-H4xNMGF/s1021/EpochOne-0002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMhzcOs0c3YrgnEayvXM14PP2r2IoYQfS-AcX_Zu0b5vjB2Ok8U97lYavTThuvh5PQtpYgWhr0Ya4aXAItyrTOihwy7cV0FSYiP3L_HkPRTTFag6nPp4XzFQ10xPoUGLlKJWu2oS21prpfF7P8IxvVzDudWsSilLMjZue_oNT8oAMsDvmNnCQ1-H4xNMGF/w289-h400/EpochOne-0002.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2021 Epoch One #623</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Epoch continued to do the "2022" Epoch One cards for about two months into 2023, eventually issuing 31 in January and February of last year. 21 of these were cards for the 2022 draft classes for the Giants, Fighters, Baystars and Marines and I asked Ryan to pick them up for me. With the Dragons and Swallows draft pick cards that were issued in 2022 (which <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/03/2021-2022-epoch-one-cards.html" target="_blank">Ryan sent me last year</a>), Epoch essentially produced a very expensive version of half of the 2023 BBM Rookie Edition set (minus the <i>ikusei</i> players). Here's the first round picks for all four teams:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vO5ApwuT5IrHFBrYEaKsa2aKWuINtfW8Q9VN8ZgNV6xElsBma6YhHAiiSAN3LzXg1sOFizGk3L9rCQCU7ew4mn0NBM-z1kJjR56aONSDR5KFjNq-LcWlpte9ctPWpaA7q5_kZdF80yWIYWiyPM7WaWsYpbtFQttatuiSys5utS9FvNEtePsyhptjYzRL/s1021/EpochOne-0003.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vO5ApwuT5IrHFBrYEaKsa2aKWuINtfW8Q9VN8ZgNV6xElsBma6YhHAiiSAN3LzXg1sOFizGk3L9rCQCU7ew4mn0NBM-z1kJjR56aONSDR5KFjNq-LcWlpte9ctPWpaA7q5_kZdF80yWIYWiyPM7WaWsYpbtFQttatuiSys5utS9FvNEtePsyhptjYzRL/w289-h400/EpochOne-0003.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2022 Epoch One #1016 (Shogo Asano)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0UD_-xlSwhzkwWNbv-1yx7-CktF_ULaFT10_pA4aSfVaySNiuSkFPkmB0Zr63n3Mq9ru72QKHPkt10ammobwl62bZX63w9t93RkY2amIaYad1nAVOVNvirc88y5ftOs5G5WUBdLHaIPg6TZoSmpqwLPegYh-nsuGCraY3M5GOorPPyPrsW5sGKavIulMu/s1021/EpochOne-0004.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0UD_-xlSwhzkwWNbv-1yx7-CktF_ULaFT10_pA4aSfVaySNiuSkFPkmB0Zr63n3Mq9ru72QKHPkt10ammobwl62bZX63w9t93RkY2amIaYad1nAVOVNvirc88y5ftOs5G5WUBdLHaIPg6TZoSmpqwLPegYh-nsuGCraY3M5GOorPPyPrsW5sGKavIulMu/w289-h400/EpochOne-0004.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2022 Epoch One #1023 (Kota Yazawa)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBKDMXYujxPxEt0G8Bk6Ta1YqVhNxPsrtAvh6GOjOTu-8w5u5O8JFJKdeMTGVlDmgOo7UdwhI8JF6IGm9daJ6mDQSBvpYlEK3lVtI3Wz2RsuIE_sj7MdPVdoCQ75wEbwy9K8eyse-6WYMh7BkmUgMTdmfWvtL44tb_VbZ2Cse0RibV0N7rp4QgKgbh9_w/s1021/EpochOne-0005.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBKDMXYujxPxEt0G8Bk6Ta1YqVhNxPsrtAvh6GOjOTu-8w5u5O8JFJKdeMTGVlDmgOo7UdwhI8JF6IGm9daJ6mDQSBvpYlEK3lVtI3Wz2RsuIE_sj7MdPVdoCQ75wEbwy9K8eyse-6WYMh7BkmUgMTdmfWvtL44tb_VbZ2Cse0RibV0N7rp4QgKgbh9_w/w289-h400/EpochOne-0005.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2022 Epoch One #1030 (Shion Matsuo)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidF242xpsKhbFLjGYE5NzoThAvP6ISfyYNbVENgPH3RRr2M3WEJ1tuLiHs3MxSPSGaFwXDeDQ4AYJ_MJOfWqxa0hYljO70qaw7SF5tnoR5-kERFbfOIhUah01dFS8Lwdab8VDKEMOxLugBJgsq83FzQCKMiYNu2LKz9mh2MvrZBPN0OV8jvH_a1KKjqFpI/s1021/EpochOne-0006.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidF242xpsKhbFLjGYE5NzoThAvP6ISfyYNbVENgPH3RRr2M3WEJ1tuLiHs3MxSPSGaFwXDeDQ4AYJ_MJOfWqxa0hYljO70qaw7SF5tnoR5-kERFbfOIhUah01dFS8Lwdab8VDKEMOxLugBJgsq83FzQCKMiYNu2LKz9mh2MvrZBPN0OV8jvH_a1KKjqFpI/w289-h400/EpochOne-0006.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2022 Epoch One #1035 (Riku Kikuchi)</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Going into 2023, I told myself (and Ryan) that I was going to be a lot more selective in getting Epoch One cards. I wasn't going to ask Ryan to get as many for me. It was a really good plan but like all good plans, it didn't survive contact with the enemy. I ultimately asked Ryan to pick up 45(!) different cards. </p><p>With that many cards, I don't always remember why exactly I asked Ryan to get the cards for me. There are some pretty obvious reasons for a lot of them, however, so I thought I'd share those here. </p><p>First up are cards that commemorate a specific event. Epoch One issued several cards related to the opening of the Fighters' new ballpark last year but I wasn't impressed with any of them. I decided to get the card that celebrated the first home run hit at the new park, hit by Yukiya Itoh of the Eagles:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwxojcSYEjVxxnymXPVsjPYrOXY96JL8FYEWc7WlxxGerABH05UvNB6qCnsMziCjGLqHcQbWGMmIPnkkCzAFT-1WCMS5ZtxiR6XnSG4qXgWqis0DrFJnqacJYN-yF6j_68doM4NvTGGulqm12BNficBI3JVoyZuV36GWirxpAyWfdv2YUsD5DuuC2SU8Z/s1021/EpochOne-0007.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwxojcSYEjVxxnymXPVsjPYrOXY96JL8FYEWc7WlxxGerABH05UvNB6qCnsMziCjGLqHcQbWGMmIPnkkCzAFT-1WCMS5ZtxiR6XnSG4qXgWqis0DrFJnqacJYN-yF6j_68doM4NvTGGulqm12BNficBI3JVoyZuV36GWirxpAyWfdv2YUsD5DuuC2SU8Z/w289-h400/EpochOne-0007.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #008</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Carter Stewart picked up his first win in NPB on July 26th:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh583Q_C4aFduEpbIwhj7RX2OaVz6QExp-UiJIhqIMuBZBN0V8GnB-ccxWG7acqFwcCV_AetI77DDn7wu0IveSEV0IAM974AJZhPsvWYP7RgKjg5tYY5Pa3UMOKoFdrLTOq4MWpwIzBFTq3QJV89obY_5hy-dkqNBVO-Fux7NfnfH3cZZc1sh0eQQgdLSVk/s1021/EpochOne-0008.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh583Q_C4aFduEpbIwhj7RX2OaVz6QExp-UiJIhqIMuBZBN0V8GnB-ccxWG7acqFwcCV_AetI77DDn7wu0IveSEV0IAM974AJZhPsvWYP7RgKjg5tYY5Pa3UMOKoFdrLTOq4MWpwIzBFTq3QJV89obY_5hy-dkqNBVO-Fux7NfnfH3cZZc1sh0eQQgdLSVk/w289-h400/EpochOne-0008.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #596</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Shuta Ishikawa threw a no-hitter on August 18th (there was no Epoch One card for the other no-hitter last season as there are no Epoch One cards for Orix or Hiroshima):</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmgjqBYxhyphenhyphen_hkzo2JV0UW2nFWqVNoCY5b2_3HP-nvIw4lqZgjKpVC5GzHYIsfThKMQo6o3E41wIsSBPtYtp2SNxHr1gwGh5DuHOG20CgCmzNcF3-xdr124SgM1qHl_970oOcu3v-c2d10I8De7c86LYLaGmYs5Hco48ckN0F931ouKZQX4wtQ5toybo5D6/s1021/EpochOne-0009.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmgjqBYxhyphenhyphen_hkzo2JV0UW2nFWqVNoCY5b2_3HP-nvIw4lqZgjKpVC5GzHYIsfThKMQo6o3E41wIsSBPtYtp2SNxHr1gwGh5DuHOG20CgCmzNcF3-xdr124SgM1qHl_970oOcu3v-c2d10I8De7c86LYLaGmYs5Hco48ckN0F931ouKZQX4wtQ5toybo5D6/w289-h400/EpochOne-0009.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #691</td></tr></tbody></table><p>On September 16th, Chusei Mannami of the Fighters became the first player in Pacific League history to both lead off and walk off a game with a home run:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF3d-4ieqOdtvQJiUXbLMLURt2T5bVZGLY4V9PTRTaA55GbRCEJjm7rbo9rmY69EKJB3uHn_lyWdzOOOjfwl3hG0bkVCWDh4p_VISPovPHHX9huZ9B8MJaTlhWciz_ypwWNgXDtjdNdWrzUnsdSjFcP9YaD4eB-hhyphenhyphenT12bP1RtRZKuRhJrvKrDVJTC2yv8/s1021/EpochOne-0010.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF3d-4ieqOdtvQJiUXbLMLURt2T5bVZGLY4V9PTRTaA55GbRCEJjm7rbo9rmY69EKJB3uHn_lyWdzOOOjfwl3hG0bkVCWDh4p_VISPovPHHX9huZ9B8MJaTlhWciz_ypwWNgXDtjdNdWrzUnsdSjFcP9YaD4eB-hhyphenhyphenT12bP1RtRZKuRhJrvKrDVJTC2yv8/w400-h289/EpochOne-0010.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #818</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Emi Taniho, the Marine's PA announcer since 1991, retired at the end of the regular season:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Ry7lD1r7eykLQlgiTKPjUhuHcQmQunzLvxWhpMb9NKwQasgQGqT5cvFtVxUBPpriO7Wz8YXKBGCGoCrKtKkLY0aHMpgMc2NrWI0yXSzPHCgFzRMMMsoaJ6L7KboYnzFVyOyT2G27LRW5QxySDUFRAJ9-qAZE2Vdz0XsbFT4xQmx4QFm_7ra6HQuuznXq/s1021/EpochOne-0011.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Ry7lD1r7eykLQlgiTKPjUhuHcQmQunzLvxWhpMb9NKwQasgQGqT5cvFtVxUBPpriO7Wz8YXKBGCGoCrKtKkLY0aHMpgMc2NrWI0yXSzPHCgFzRMMMsoaJ6L7KboYnzFVyOyT2G27LRW5QxySDUFRAJ9-qAZE2Vdz0XsbFT4xQmx4QFm_7ra6HQuuznXq/w400-h289/EpochOne-0011.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #925</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Speaking of the Marines, I picked up the two cards that were issued to commemorate <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/10/one-for-ages.html" target="_blank">their thrilling victory in Game Three of the First Stage of the Climax Series</a>:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNc4pxTa_b_-5sW_iNu8JbqLASd3FjIwGN7pe97S-1U4YAuT9w3-EUXlcW97C8NqcazkxH7YuHEpmWVPBuQXNMId-mjwTa8K1aXh4ZupisBGiMsQUxEBZovn8Ldy5L-ojxZfqnwTmorTFWPy4SlxP30_-PvaDT4TkmJs8yqYTFxsz5Soi8O2Y7a6t3uu53/s1021/EpochOne-0012.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNc4pxTa_b_-5sW_iNu8JbqLASd3FjIwGN7pe97S-1U4YAuT9w3-EUXlcW97C8NqcazkxH7YuHEpmWVPBuQXNMId-mjwTa8K1aXh4ZupisBGiMsQUxEBZovn8Ldy5L-ojxZfqnwTmorTFWPy4SlxP30_-PvaDT4TkmJs8yqYTFxsz5Soi8O2Y7a6t3uu53/w400-h289/EpochOne-0012.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #933</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH3pho9t6omxNcqIGQ3P47h_dj10ijHw7MEUe6vySv4_rC5mIHfMOqd5HXuDWuicz3GWXpt79wphaEYieeqYK5RmrR4M7466yQ0EmbMLg_WjT8t_bGg1LjiA6bfsumPRvO66FHxVgi6L2TWA7ukyxagVCkmMAx4Yj0H3eH_V8qn_oc3d7kCGoE_xW2vT_6/s1021/EpochOne-0013.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH3pho9t6omxNcqIGQ3P47h_dj10ijHw7MEUe6vySv4_rC5mIHfMOqd5HXuDWuicz3GWXpt79wphaEYieeqYK5RmrR4M7466yQ0EmbMLg_WjT8t_bGg1LjiA6bfsumPRvO66FHxVgi6L2TWA7ukyxagVCkmMAx4Yj0H3eH_V8qn_oc3d7kCGoE_xW2vT_6/w400-h289/EpochOne-0013.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #934</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The back of card #934 has a great picture of the game winning hit:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGjWq4r0XE0MLApD_dq7NOBAdIrigyOIVtkPTQYz-Q5ozIxvl7fEcvKcphhR_8k3zwNPrZRDW8UGGDzKRFROsY42rO0BifxZjYAinM-gYvmNGKCRaozdg0SMJDf75JwJnRq5jxbCmyttgrUshofElYTcJGco83G54Ek67SU41v7x80oQ1NXjnsiXb6Ar4/s1021/EpochOne-0040.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzGjWq4r0XE0MLApD_dq7NOBAdIrigyOIVtkPTQYz-Q5ozIxvl7fEcvKcphhR_8k3zwNPrZRDW8UGGDzKRFROsY42rO0BifxZjYAinM-gYvmNGKCRaozdg0SMJDf75JwJnRq5jxbCmyttgrUshofElYTcJGco83G54Ek67SU41v7x80oQ1NXjnsiXb6Ar4/w289-h400/EpochOne-0040.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><p>I picked up cards from both the All Star Game and the Nippon Series, partly just to have a card from the events:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcz4gEqUMqimXXERJUNcVjhCJnOqfc5O1jnhigegzxO7R7BW3yLGpmn13kAWja99J9xPBCd7yfFPJKMexdpkzt7O_NzZ2KxTN7nvNaNLSFKUsJxTsS9217vJBho_ApClfKan18ap-3WL-cqo_ERT2Rbb7TQiWwF_fhVL40I5qiJY1PXgrka84JxsfUwAHB/s1021/EpochOne-0014.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="1021" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcz4gEqUMqimXXERJUNcVjhCJnOqfc5O1jnhigegzxO7R7BW3yLGpmn13kAWja99J9xPBCd7yfFPJKMexdpkzt7O_NzZ2KxTN7nvNaNLSFKUsJxTsS9217vJBho_ApClfKan18ap-3WL-cqo_ERT2Rbb7TQiWwF_fhVL40I5qiJY1PXgrka84JxsfUwAHB/w400-h288/EpochOne-0014.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #568</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_27Z6X_Pk0RFmDfrIdTagV70NS2b1d1OM2zx2ZStytzLyowGIiZTeHua7z2ARrW6f2G7Vq-lNVTXJTw3TuQl72cfpGxpGWOuOtKiRJ3NSgStHM0QedsrPZVne7YSMyms3r5q-FMTkmNQinD9JRSqDj9uk9TnW2KFNUJrPrDSaY43oY1YySHFBzKy9YKg8/s1021/EpochOne-0015.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_27Z6X_Pk0RFmDfrIdTagV70NS2b1d1OM2zx2ZStytzLyowGIiZTeHua7z2ARrW6f2G7Vq-lNVTXJTw3TuQl72cfpGxpGWOuOtKiRJ3NSgStHM0QedsrPZVne7YSMyms3r5q-FMTkmNQinD9JRSqDj9uk9TnW2KFNUJrPrDSaY43oY1YySHFBzKy9YKg8/w400-h289/EpochOne-0015.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #956</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Next is a batch of cards for walk off victories - I'm a sucker for a good sayonara hit photo:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMqxkaJL2P9z6_ZsizWzcFa8PUw_NElt7hi-Nb66Wc1t2G8plFOTLWJehQvOm5sSHMkfQRw1gV0tl_eOKE92H2Zm5akWPHdvr40WhbG00YSiDxO55h35iqF7fnuGQCJhE01S3avNS-jcsX3MbMuJ4_wiV5M6cS4RkSlJTaN7AFMlzd44I263EP7XmACVaw/s1021/EpochOne-0016.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMqxkaJL2P9z6_ZsizWzcFa8PUw_NElt7hi-Nb66Wc1t2G8plFOTLWJehQvOm5sSHMkfQRw1gV0tl_eOKE92H2Zm5akWPHdvr40WhbG00YSiDxO55h35iqF7fnuGQCJhE01S3avNS-jcsX3MbMuJ4_wiV5M6cS4RkSlJTaN7AFMlzd44I263EP7XmACVaw/w289-h400/EpochOne-0016.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #467</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiulFb7rdBZqZKYeB5kfnXcWxVFO_Hz5q5E5P3DWHNFiJDB5FdBxYkfKYFmSw-J4dMJ6etFVabje1CZRjVqHpadfALRS6jiq2wCcsT-k9hHAFWYhC-C_pcFbO1yJ1_LAIoBmXw_bU9v8i-wzX0A_fWIurv68MeMuYufipeOXqQuGxtZS7KX-JXC4OkMjQ-t/s1021/EpochOne-0017.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiulFb7rdBZqZKYeB5kfnXcWxVFO_Hz5q5E5P3DWHNFiJDB5FdBxYkfKYFmSw-J4dMJ6etFVabje1CZRjVqHpadfALRS6jiq2wCcsT-k9hHAFWYhC-C_pcFbO1yJ1_LAIoBmXw_bU9v8i-wzX0A_fWIurv68MeMuYufipeOXqQuGxtZS7KX-JXC4OkMjQ-t/w400-h289/EpochOne-0017.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #527</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I also like to get cards showing players wearing alternate uniforms:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO3JN2HHPFWFjmpmwsBTx4CdOz9jV0MfIRZb7z3D1AHfe97cMhgFNSgcWMIl77Pz1bY6mWc4mzjikexrtDLqHqgWSGZVTttrNHXm9N4xmsnnaVey_hGc0ZvICxtSXOkxcOIYx5zbdsVZ2vjOM9iDJOSysF8U4iEk3QrPcmWgEa6Ftl2jrostiTi0AKOmUn/s1021/EpochOne-0018.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO3JN2HHPFWFjmpmwsBTx4CdOz9jV0MfIRZb7z3D1AHfe97cMhgFNSgcWMIl77Pz1bY6mWc4mzjikexrtDLqHqgWSGZVTttrNHXm9N4xmsnnaVey_hGc0ZvICxtSXOkxcOIYx5zbdsVZ2vjOM9iDJOSysF8U4iEk3QrPcmWgEa6Ftl2jrostiTi0AKOmUn/w289-h400/EpochOne-0018.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #277</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirpmU9arhww9UTxYA2ghAsqjsP9aJKFEApaUR6JLQNb7xYHNam7XrhrStVZfGTjxjFhBam7qpcXKyVo6czpYEp8Y3Ou7TX5DCNAb3kTU8Gf-QWbc9uSkq6Ne4h1ztTvdNsNllE116TuDdan8A_Nk_NR4Oo5-7RUJG72N-Rq-mZuZF6rO3y0ndeRVIObZXR/s1021/EpochOne-0019.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirpmU9arhww9UTxYA2ghAsqjsP9aJKFEApaUR6JLQNb7xYHNam7XrhrStVZfGTjxjFhBam7qpcXKyVo6czpYEp8Y3Ou7TX5DCNAb3kTU8Gf-QWbc9uSkq6Ne4h1ztTvdNsNllE116TuDdan8A_Nk_NR4Oo5-7RUJG72N-Rq-mZuZF6rO3y0ndeRVIObZXR/w289-h400/EpochOne-0019.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #393</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipgYRth5OVpG66tGG7Q8cNbzbvNHes6zsQ8fvqJo-7nF4t531dbp1khD4t76J94Y5uIdLUc5iptzvqU3JQC6uNLm4llFk2z1vDBBbmvzWjVQtRKLPZOR4kzNatO9cVOkwhMFR08J72rtgjOEzrQqcHhTws3Ut-0nXliW5wpWi9wkKOJVfXA5JZlAUP1RHL/s1027/EpochOne-0020.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1027" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipgYRth5OVpG66tGG7Q8cNbzbvNHes6zsQ8fvqJo-7nF4t531dbp1khD4t76J94Y5uIdLUc5iptzvqU3JQC6uNLm4llFk2z1vDBBbmvzWjVQtRKLPZOR4kzNatO9cVOkwhMFR08J72rtgjOEzrQqcHhTws3Ut-0nXliW5wpWi9wkKOJVfXA5JZlAUP1RHL/w288-h400/EpochOne-0020.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #492</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK3cJqIrzOqykxKP1OXoxDadrQ-BQajoSsN-qvjkMchdfhKef-cOamD01a1kpCM-X2dBooXmdkyCjfGetAopHH-RUFEaQl_1t91eJ7tBi5Jk4dNiFatV8mE3NzEii60uxE7u9_4ujk_zz9qRLIyIE1LBi-7O2vRLlbfhYaZJ8jqI2Xj95Y8IMiTPOXI_84/s1021/EpochOne-0021.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK3cJqIrzOqykxKP1OXoxDadrQ-BQajoSsN-qvjkMchdfhKef-cOamD01a1kpCM-X2dBooXmdkyCjfGetAopHH-RUFEaQl_1t91eJ7tBi5Jk4dNiFatV8mE3NzEii60uxE7u9_4ujk_zz9qRLIyIE1LBi-7O2vRLlbfhYaZJ8jqI2Xj95Y8IMiTPOXI_84/w289-h400/EpochOne-0021.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #555</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvWP9-69fFT9gEu30AELyGyZ_BwtRkpDNXUHAMqR3E9D2CsRzPuZZGr4FHX85x_2z6ClyKxb5S3Pahd65TlGoZyXotur2oYC8j1gXqwbb2yQ_WPghnCxNpuid6mzbIn8-l2e3rv5PFlqAslDuEmhICS0UsjTm_gzryru-0Dft0yqq-MiH3AqfEWXV9cem/s1021/EpochOne-0022.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvWP9-69fFT9gEu30AELyGyZ_BwtRkpDNXUHAMqR3E9D2CsRzPuZZGr4FHX85x_2z6ClyKxb5S3Pahd65TlGoZyXotur2oYC8j1gXqwbb2yQ_WPghnCxNpuid6mzbIn8-l2e3rv5PFlqAslDuEmhICS0UsjTm_gzryru-0Dft0yqq-MiH3AqfEWXV9cem/w289-h400/EpochOne-0022.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #571</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFohqB8CelRgSo9HEuwv_pPof-__uRAshJm0tb73xgmntBMYKHsbjxZonPuM7PL3TD5wFFYA9OYaR-8XK0xgZ3amCAnYE5GeCgcEWlk8nKnq522i_EPY5E8r8S8-7SbM5XdcbchmPXLano2G8oP0de8wYtrETk16f8q4RcPq_NBAXDw9rIxrKi86sQseeY/s1021/EpochOne-0023.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFohqB8CelRgSo9HEuwv_pPof-__uRAshJm0tb73xgmntBMYKHsbjxZonPuM7PL3TD5wFFYA9OYaR-8XK0xgZ3amCAnYE5GeCgcEWlk8nKnq522i_EPY5E8r8S8-7SbM5XdcbchmPXLano2G8oP0de8wYtrETk16f8q4RcPq_NBAXDw9rIxrKi86sQseeY/w289-h400/EpochOne-0023.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #647</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg7lA8JDRaM8SJSwbU-3eprpgwqo-00ZoLJ-mZliN_v299AFMGOQq6HBa6yaw_ffGGPZFuU3KLFhgCHK201nY4tJd5DhmqsOryfn4slbvkx686XcFLVFsKmlcYOYMXTU5Omc71W-gqdQOzjfRES7GcOf72psi-0TlskfIn_1DFHEr8jyfxtePC2npbe05F/s1021/EpochOne-0024.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg7lA8JDRaM8SJSwbU-3eprpgwqo-00ZoLJ-mZliN_v299AFMGOQq6HBa6yaw_ffGGPZFuU3KLFhgCHK201nY4tJd5DhmqsOryfn4slbvkx686XcFLVFsKmlcYOYMXTU5Omc71W-gqdQOzjfRES7GcOf72psi-0TlskfIn_1DFHEr8jyfxtePC2npbe05F/w289-h400/EpochOne-0024.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #651</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtl4uYtCaFMIByoyo-goM33tgJM5aVaPmcdXOJKG9xy85y8qmYk3fiTh2apzu72KuBEKzlF0b650nYiEL-S8bLNBGidsO4pXe-HMdUNaAn9d9HccJNM1ecMbbzHrLmQYEj4cTzyfFMKrNV4VwwI5iO9MCFbRdpR4NOVtc-rOiw1uy_b56RJ8lxT011fVTe/s1021/EpochOne-0025.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtl4uYtCaFMIByoyo-goM33tgJM5aVaPmcdXOJKG9xy85y8qmYk3fiTh2apzu72KuBEKzlF0b650nYiEL-S8bLNBGidsO4pXe-HMdUNaAn9d9HccJNM1ecMbbzHrLmQYEj4cTzyfFMKrNV4VwwI5iO9MCFbRdpR4NOVtc-rOiw1uy_b56RJ8lxT011fVTe/w289-h400/EpochOne-0025.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #822</td></tr></tbody></table><p>I want to point out that the back of Kiyomiya's card had a pretty good photo of the Fighters' new park:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlz6M3mOpZ4Lub_jDcdQiS_XVQWOI3qtSskuGMdsyk7ongfQm39oVANFqkmaas0a6eGZWywJwJozdb7jL20-rxqWGH75ny6pj6e63PElS7k3BpANl5PoBHeeCXTCPH9fGooqwsRazJCNhfihzrSA8O6MIcmK6RxGqqwwNjDnfPBdSHDzS9kUbqkrZn9XIp/s1021/EpochOne-0041.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlz6M3mOpZ4Lub_jDcdQiS_XVQWOI3qtSskuGMdsyk7ongfQm39oVANFqkmaas0a6eGZWywJwJozdb7jL20-rxqWGH75ny6pj6e63PElS7k3BpANl5PoBHeeCXTCPH9fGooqwsRazJCNhfihzrSA8O6MIcmK6RxGqqwwNjDnfPBdSHDzS9kUbqkrZn9XIp/w289-h400/EpochOne-0041.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><p>There seemed to be a lot of opportunities to combine the two previous categories - walk off hits by players wearing alternate uniforms:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7A9CpDsas_2VWky5rawe6ai6e6aA_BrRpWf_hHOnINKMMxeoEm7uN8k_wFTJm3BeR45EWHZDQhwH0xU8Se_w1pZlaNwapPWuG2pB4kk9hfrGoNDMfgUlsXbKBiJPSVxOfbg3kzC0InOPdzfSAzK0O6t5Q6PZbMAOUZgN-bw4UIY1w1hRwLBSzXTV9iThr/s1021/EpochOne-0026.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7A9CpDsas_2VWky5rawe6ai6e6aA_BrRpWf_hHOnINKMMxeoEm7uN8k_wFTJm3BeR45EWHZDQhwH0xU8Se_w1pZlaNwapPWuG2pB4kk9hfrGoNDMfgUlsXbKBiJPSVxOfbg3kzC0InOPdzfSAzK0O6t5Q6PZbMAOUZgN-bw4UIY1w1hRwLBSzXTV9iThr/w400-h289/EpochOne-0026.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #540</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6-aAxyiv9M8vZ9wdXdUeAcyfF6djpgPJD6eiF2c7hElrfijJNl9-YqYiAW3CsnVFIxmyOxBbjACI9sleOXnB8dFtGzH0bd2tFg-_C7JMO9wj8NgGaZ4L_nfudBUSScVR74CSH49EltPDOz1NYrJIe7DE3ib9jIWmnCj1Ur13cfLOZ7YEBzIZzVLiRmn3/s1021/EpochOne-0027.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="1021" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6-aAxyiv9M8vZ9wdXdUeAcyfF6djpgPJD6eiF2c7hElrfijJNl9-YqYiAW3CsnVFIxmyOxBbjACI9sleOXnB8dFtGzH0bd2tFg-_C7JMO9wj8NgGaZ4L_nfudBUSScVR74CSH49EltPDOz1NYrJIe7DE3ib9jIWmnCj1Ur13cfLOZ7YEBzIZzVLiRmn3/w400-h288/EpochOne-0027.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #578</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigU6CsbJ1Iy7WA9WsVIX1wUXsHLaw8l5gcAWVnTsv5HXPvlK4oJ5Khp_wPLkbXN-nOgweuyxd7qw91rirLW6IlgiVBDq83jDvB67M36ucyuld1Dl6AxqYGWtQWcs4gBjlzxuLXmlzLmyLld4_vkeMCOhyYtKbHR84FfiXQmb9E39mFsPGk1_tW14v_xnFF/s1021/EpochOne-0028.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigU6CsbJ1Iy7WA9WsVIX1wUXsHLaw8l5gcAWVnTsv5HXPvlK4oJ5Khp_wPLkbXN-nOgweuyxd7qw91rirLW6IlgiVBDq83jDvB67M36ucyuld1Dl6AxqYGWtQWcs4gBjlzxuLXmlzLmyLld4_vkeMCOhyYtKbHR84FfiXQmb9E39mFsPGk1_tW14v_xnFF/w289-h400/EpochOne-0028.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #607</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-e0Iev-KqYMw7-gc1FREGOeg6YTt81xyFU9gAOgpq93RtBKdpmZB1P1olwzCVtDaQv1sSt-_Cq5-ZHWdSo7NmFjjSCubml8DYD4S7G2I3pgejuIw1DAWxIOZb1hOm3ojZVoUlNaVpYkJUMJJN5SwG4Gq_s6zKr73QZtVSIyyzYfB_DcJe3CmldltSMQ7/s1021/EpochOne-0029.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-e0Iev-KqYMw7-gc1FREGOeg6YTt81xyFU9gAOgpq93RtBKdpmZB1P1olwzCVtDaQv1sSt-_Cq5-ZHWdSo7NmFjjSCubml8DYD4S7G2I3pgejuIw1DAWxIOZb1hOm3ojZVoUlNaVpYkJUMJJN5SwG4Gq_s6zKr73QZtVSIyyzYfB_DcJe3CmldltSMQ7/w400-h289/EpochOne-0029.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #629</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYLFwwvqoyYT4fQpmeXtutldv47gQU-60RNc4zv0LSzQVYYdMb3VDbuC0d9NdOcfAiwmlew7Z-I3DV4I73UkOyUYOVMr4Mit4ylTmfo_zD3YMakw2zjT6o4B7qzRN6vPZj7hH3aOfWpPqrUz7Mv1OjpfIL_Jy8wTI1p751hdjkL2ocbG1nURwWS556vb-/s1021/EpochOne-0030.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYLFwwvqoyYT4fQpmeXtutldv47gQU-60RNc4zv0LSzQVYYdMb3VDbuC0d9NdOcfAiwmlew7Z-I3DV4I73UkOyUYOVMr4Mit4ylTmfo_zD3YMakw2zjT6o4B7qzRN6vPZj7hH3aOfWpPqrUz7Mv1OjpfIL_Jy8wTI1p751hdjkL2ocbG1nURwWS556vb-/w289-h400/EpochOne-0030.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #689</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Lastly there were a bunch of cards I got just because I liked the photos. Here's Hirokazu Sawamura doing his Randy Arozarena impression:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0L-rrF2aVOlWt7aFqs2WT_9x2qdGC6ATVqPL3PwGoA5oAhgEJm52yvnHSDKZmxDDycLUjjS0prdw_h3mAAYXfmmV8IciMXsbmzczOUwxxkXUTyucjg5BFCHF9Fbc1c-kqUe6Sh0vpaso2ByKu6E-Zoz4a1aTD5G1-GkqpcwVksM55DPZ-loL7LWCbeBTK/s1021/EpochOne-0031.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0L-rrF2aVOlWt7aFqs2WT_9x2qdGC6ATVqPL3PwGoA5oAhgEJm52yvnHSDKZmxDDycLUjjS0prdw_h3mAAYXfmmV8IciMXsbmzczOUwxxkXUTyucjg5BFCHF9Fbc1c-kqUe6Sh0vpaso2ByKu6E-Zoz4a1aTD5G1-GkqpcwVksM55DPZ-loL7LWCbeBTK/w289-h400/EpochOne-0031.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #154</td></tr></tbody></table><p>On May 9th, Tomohisa Ohzeki pitched a complete game, one-hit shutout of the Fighters in Kumamoto, striking out 13. I thought this was just a really cool photo with the stands in the background and the sun getting low:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-Q0hZDMlwqKKLqGltkWNFtYeI32OTSnZSFV9HwoaKXToEjgeK1G7OkyChnQnC-qzpNf6diXCOrUlQg14UELs5T5Wnc3vQ8PEhyn9MErrANZTLjMXoFXTcndlLt00DiJZuMfDTVY00vMMiwMhtsMNB0XWE4NIFlwwuC-Q5-AitDYWJDoKMnex5iUSEpKy/s1027/EpochOne-0032.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1027" data-original-width="735" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-Q0hZDMlwqKKLqGltkWNFtYeI32OTSnZSFV9HwoaKXToEjgeK1G7OkyChnQnC-qzpNf6diXCOrUlQg14UELs5T5Wnc3vQ8PEhyn9MErrANZTLjMXoFXTcndlLt00DiJZuMfDTVY00vMMiwMhtsMNB0XWE4NIFlwwuC-Q5-AitDYWJDoKMnex5iUSEpKy/w286-h400/EpochOne-0032.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #269</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>I don't think any of the remaining photos really need any additional comment:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt43-OfI5xujiJOmBCURjL2hvOamsDNFIy6EDxbXDuCsXEzZ69Iz8JT6pfED8EJ8LlMiM-UUMHtIfbFOdQvSuff5WPKJ2zshtdEyTCPTBlYazIcZ8maieWTJesXoVnSM86WxQC3jE3c1e3PV7X6Qt2GZcv0_sQuT8D_mvkfrPrEkDTH6WLE8sQQz9sl4Cd/s1021/EpochOne-0033.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt43-OfI5xujiJOmBCURjL2hvOamsDNFIy6EDxbXDuCsXEzZ69Iz8JT6pfED8EJ8LlMiM-UUMHtIfbFOdQvSuff5WPKJ2zshtdEyTCPTBlYazIcZ8maieWTJesXoVnSM86WxQC3jE3c1e3PV7X6Qt2GZcv0_sQuT8D_mvkfrPrEkDTH6WLE8sQQz9sl4Cd/w400-h289/EpochOne-0033.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #089</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7tE0hkxwE-GmLr1TkP21pssdRQ1kWlwEjJDTLPk7POcl61d-RC52CV6rLdm5z2IiAXFyDHb_jZ0Pl39Uqro0T1O2DHi1bMNRLvn6UkvqElUNj86d4F46CZDv1M_zYlTKycd3uAchMleDMY40Ag076SdV2-DLq2Z5CvVnIhK8t0pMlWX2V4nOcN_YMEfnv/s1021/EpochOne-0034.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7tE0hkxwE-GmLr1TkP21pssdRQ1kWlwEjJDTLPk7POcl61d-RC52CV6rLdm5z2IiAXFyDHb_jZ0Pl39Uqro0T1O2DHi1bMNRLvn6UkvqElUNj86d4F46CZDv1M_zYlTKycd3uAchMleDMY40Ag076SdV2-DLq2Z5CvVnIhK8t0pMlWX2V4nOcN_YMEfnv/w400-h289/EpochOne-0034.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #152</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZg-uAc1WgzlNGRw2Gll3HvNW3469HaVZFbgBLFwufC_UJ4SnO_liFpb-ERwWmyPbeTvr1qjY7R0P3n_wipNmC87Duq68FDWaEmZvGaPQgyAVvCZy8fQ47RK9MsgXdGWQUB_JpdLGDrgUffbdthFrrIFFoOyKfN1egHQ1y5OhA0zFdOI8YeNOmp4Smzxm/s1021/EpochOne-0035.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZg-uAc1WgzlNGRw2Gll3HvNW3469HaVZFbgBLFwufC_UJ4SnO_liFpb-ERwWmyPbeTvr1qjY7R0P3n_wipNmC87Duq68FDWaEmZvGaPQgyAVvCZy8fQ47RK9MsgXdGWQUB_JpdLGDrgUffbdthFrrIFFoOyKfN1egHQ1y5OhA0zFdOI8YeNOmp4Smzxm/w289-h400/EpochOne-0035.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #369</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVCNR6bSYx8IMMQBF3tf98ZMMjqWneARqLnLWbL7OO4LyZhHKNQfuv2mRokW2NOm5OE-UEFbZdXrzGcyMNTtqVw0FVn75t0HRQ6HOUDooJm-ylJxuIEAGZap_ntla7VgLvWUnzd3SAGlQuxlPXzZG7ef865zu7w5vGnvgg0tP4MQ5xjJU3Al6B3_b37SdT/s1021/EpochOne-0036.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVCNR6bSYx8IMMQBF3tf98ZMMjqWneARqLnLWbL7OO4LyZhHKNQfuv2mRokW2NOm5OE-UEFbZdXrzGcyMNTtqVw0FVn75t0HRQ6HOUDooJm-ylJxuIEAGZap_ntla7VgLvWUnzd3SAGlQuxlPXzZG7ef865zu7w5vGnvgg0tP4MQ5xjJU3Al6B3_b37SdT/w289-h400/EpochOne-0036.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #464</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEwzUVDlTQ89xI5IxgP-qlCjwTOf0DBHKoXypJycEt2ecKkYJ5PAgCdXua3Eyw4IR3jp-S14YhiSODUayIgOH0X76dVE-gOqpQjF9KlqrtEOU0wYJrifmOXPkalHpXbQ2HFcua9jo4V3MYqRMc2Uh6uNWePG-faCFj4fJompnFnXRMZQf2dVj5JjZjUbRj/s1021/EpochOne-0039.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1021" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEwzUVDlTQ89xI5IxgP-qlCjwTOf0DBHKoXypJycEt2ecKkYJ5PAgCdXua3Eyw4IR3jp-S14YhiSODUayIgOH0X76dVE-gOqpQjF9KlqrtEOU0wYJrifmOXPkalHpXbQ2HFcua9jo4V3MYqRMc2Uh6uNWePG-faCFj4fJompnFnXRMZQf2dVj5JjZjUbRj/w400-h289/EpochOne-0039.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2023 Epoch One #725</td></tr></tbody></table><p>My plan again this year is to refrain from going overboard on Epoch One cards. Given that I've passed on <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2024/02/whoa.html" target="_blank">the draft pick cards they've already issued this year</a>, I think I'm off to a good start. We'll see if I can keep it up.</p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-76777484338300144282024-02-15T22:24:00.000-05:002024-02-15T22:24:01.859-05:002022 JABA Player Cards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLQ_Wd3upCXtLGzCGdX4GJPfnQNRxsBW_zxPlFGebW6BI9WHGDLi7V1VQ69epIZBqT6pp8C096Wz-BZ01_sPA4kvx-NNCLDsbWEwtVoff7-dBKZIkmQ2rYRmedG6ZtjOawHQDa22jivQGnrxJSuofjNfLFU8mjU8fTuT46uE-p0Go0nIDMr8LKfApLGZC5/s1319/JABA-0001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1319" data-original-width="801" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLQ_Wd3upCXtLGzCGdX4GJPfnQNRxsBW_zxPlFGebW6BI9WHGDLi7V1VQ69epIZBqT6pp8C096Wz-BZ01_sPA4kvx-NNCLDsbWEwtVoff7-dBKZIkmQ2rYRmedG6ZtjOawHQDa22jivQGnrxJSuofjNfLFU8mjU8fTuT46uE-p0Go0nIDMr8LKfApLGZC5/w242-h400/JABA-0001.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><br /><p>On Tuesday of this week I received my roughly annual big box of Japanese baseball cards that my friend <a href="https://thiscardiscool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ryan</a> has picked up for me in Japan. This year's box contained over ten pounds of cards so I've got quite a lot of stuff to keep me busy for a few weeks.</p><p>The problem I always run into when I get this much stuff is figuring out where to start. I usually dither for a couple of days before basically just shrugging, picking something and digging in. This time around I've decided to start with the 2022 JABA Player cards.</p><p>JABA is the organization that runs the corporate (or industial) leagues in Japan. I think it stands for "Japanese Amateur Baseball Association" but that's just a guess. They issued a 90 card set of players from various teams in 2021 and followed that up with an 88 card set last year. The cards were issued in packs of five cards which sold for 550 yen on JABA's on-line store (which appears to be gone now). <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/03/2021-jaba-player-cards.html" target="_blank">Ryan had picked me up two packs for the 2021 set which I received in last year's box</a>. I liked them so much I asked him to pick up three packs for the 2022 set.</p><p>The cards are very attractive with almost borderless photos (there's a thin blue border on the bottom) and rounded corners. The player's name in English appears on the front with his uniform number while the backs feature a head shot and some biographical information - all in Japanese. The card numbers are on the front of the card but not the back. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwKpZIntPBJb692Di0UpA4iHtj2GjjUiAIQgwpX0SxuIs_AHmNLsVHk2J7WH1R6CPmt6VliwBILdu4E3QsI25RtKSEoqf4E4ddHZCyVkBibfaFMBgObT6MGTSCyJkXNkNagQpLChvUV1v20Tj0KG01lHMDQ2siCqK0V4BmbUpFg4pT2xvIfqUXuOprKw44/s1021/JABA-0017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="738" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwKpZIntPBJb692Di0UpA4iHtj2GjjUiAIQgwpX0SxuIs_AHmNLsVHk2J7WH1R6CPmt6VliwBILdu4E3QsI25RtKSEoqf4E4ddHZCyVkBibfaFMBgObT6MGTSCyJkXNkNagQpLChvUV1v20Tj0KG01lHMDQ2siCqK0V4BmbUpFg4pT2xvIfqUXuOprKw44/w289-h400/JABA-0017.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><p>I was kind of amused that I got cards of two players that I also had in the 2021 set - Kawano and Kawase. Kawano is the only player of this batch who has since gone "professional" - he was drafted by the Carp in the fifth round of the 2022 draft. One of the other players, Ryosuke Aizawa, appears in the Samurai Japan collegiate team cards from the <a href="https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2023/11/2019-2020-panini-usa-baseball-stars.html" target="_blank">2019 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes set</a>.</p><p>I'd love to see a checklist for both this set and its predecessor. I'd love to get more cards but they seem to be somewhat scarce. I haven't found them on Yahoo! Japan Auctions and the ones on Mercari are pricier than I want to spend. </p>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7480658377503163749.post-13097814366748614682024-02-12T21:36:00.001-05:002024-02-12T21:36:08.158-05:00Hobby News Daily ArticleA week or so ago I got contacted by Horacio Ruiz, a writer for <a href="https://www.hobbynewsdaily.com/">HobbyNewsDaily.com</a>. He was asking several collectors of Japanese baseball cards to contribute a paragraph or so about their favorite vintage sets for an article he was working on. <a href="https://www.hobbynewsdaily.com/post/japanese-baseball-collectors-share-their-favorite-baseball-cards" target="_blank">The piece</a> came out today and besides me, it features contributions from <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffTokyoJapan1" target="_blank">JeffInTokyo</a>, <a href="https://prestigecollectiblesauction.com/" target="_blank">Robert Klevens of Prestige Collectibles</a> and <a href="https://baseballcardsinjapan.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sean of "Getting Back into Baseball Cards...In Japan" fame</a>. It's a nice article and we each have our own perspectives on why our sets are our favorites. <div><br /></div><div>You'll have to read the article to see what we all picked but I will say I was surprised that no one picked the 1967 Kabaya-Leaf set.</div>NPB Card Guyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01178497208404127283noreply@blogger.com10