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Not that anyone doesn't already know this, but #1 on the list of career home run leaders is Sadaharu Oh with 868 home runs. Oh played his entire career from 1959 to 1980 with the Yomiuri Giants.
I've done a couple of tributes to Oh previously, both as a player and as a manager along with a post about the 2009 BBM Tribute set. I think I did a lousy job picking cards of him as a player, so I thought I give it another try - this time using only cards that came out while he was playing.
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dfWsvfeutrw/ShF_5iqHvyI/AAAAAAAABLw/fVGZJbyCxD0/s320/74+Calbee+Oh.jpg)
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dfWsvfeutrw/ShF_5UR8dZI/AAAAAAAABLo/OhaqDNMYZh4/s320/74-75+Calbee+Oh.jpg)
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dfWsvfeutrw/ShF_5fOaUkI/AAAAAAAABLg/9_gIKriRZyg/s320/75-76+Calbee+Oh.jpg)
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dfWsvfeutrw/ShF_5PzsQTI/AAAAAAAABLY/LgPeEVVpvHg/s320/78+NST+Oh+un.jpg)
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dfWsvfeutrw/ShGAhCXNoRI/AAAAAAAABMQ/oA0HjyfZ-yQ/s320/78+Yamakatsu+Oh.jpg)
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dfWsvfeutrw/ShGAg8aptyI/AAAAAAAABMI/DEYaOhoJkm0/s320/79+TCMA+Oh.jpg)
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dfWsvfeutrw/ShGAg3TImsI/AAAAAAAABMA/UOK5rzwHnbo/s320/80+Yamakatsu+Oh.jpg)
From the top of the post we've got his card from the 2002 BBM 2nd Version 400 Home Run Club subset (#824), a 1974 Calbee card (#140), a 1974/75 Calbee card (#431), a 1975/76 Calbee card (#1235), a 1978 NST card (not sure of the number, the scan's from an unnumbered parallel issue), a 1978 Yamakatsu card, his 1979 TCMA card (#1) and a 1980 Yamakatsu card.
2 comments:
That's a fantastic set of cards.
Yesterday was his birthday actually -- or maybe it's still today over in the US :)
Thanks. I wish I could say that I planned to post this around his birthday, but it's just a coincidence.
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