But while looking through that binder, I ran into this little beauty from the 1980 set:
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| 1980 Calbee #246 |
I'm pretty sure the catcher is Kazuhiro Yamakura. I was doing a little research on it and I was a bit stymied by the fact that both the Japanese Baseball Database and Baseball Reference claim that Yamakura never played catcher (not surprising they agree as I think the Baseball Reference data came from Japanese Baseball Database). Kazuhiro and I respectfully disagree:
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| 2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #033 |
I don't say this to make fun of either data source - they are great references and this is just a minor issue. I know only too well from my own card database how easy it is to input something incorrectly.
3 comments:
BR Bullpen has Yamakura correctly listed at catcher even if BR Japan doesn't. I've noticed other errors with BR Japan's defensive data - see Masahiro Abe for instance.
I need to remember to check the Bullpen more often than I do. You've done a lot of great work there that's very helpful, especially now that Japan Baseball Daily is gone. Thanks for all you do there.
I tend to overlook the BR Bullpen bios as well--it would be nice if the B-Ref player pages linked to the BR Bullpen bios like they do with the SABR BioProject ones.
B-Ref probably is getting some of their data from the Japanese Baseball Database but since the latter stops at 2011 then B-Ref has to be getting data from other sources as well.
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