The series contained 36 cards numbered 289 to 324. Each card featured a color photo of the player along with an older black and white photo. In some ways these cards resembled the "Boyhood Photos Of The Stars" cards from the 1972 and 1973 Topps sets except that most of these photos showed the player with his high school or college baseball team. There are a couple that show a photo of the player earlier in his NPB career, possibly with a different team than he was on when the card was produced.
I've got about a third of the 36 cards in the series (and by the way, don't assume that because there's 36 cards that there are three per team - the even division of cards between teams didn't really start until a lot later and keep in mind that there's almost no Calbee cards for the Lotte Orions until 1985). Here are the cards I have and my best guess to the background of the old photos:
#299 Taira Fujita (Hanshin) |
#321 Isao Harimoto (Namihana Commercial High School?) |
#292 Masaji Hiramatsu (Okayama Prefectural Okayamahigashi Commercial High School) |
#293 Senichi Hoshino (Meiji University) |
#317 Tatsuhiko Kimata (Chukyo Commercial High School?) |
#313 Toshiyuki Mimura (Hiroshima Prefectural Hiroshima Commercial High School?) |
#294 Atsushi Nagaike (Hosei University?) |
#295 Shigeo Nagashima (Rikkio University) |
#290 Sadaharu Oh (Waseda Jitsugyo Gakko High School) |
#323 Tsuyoshi Ohshita (Toei Flyers) |
#302 Yoshiro Sotokoba (Hiroshima Carp) |
#320 Koichi Tabuchi (Hosei University) |
#297 Tsutomu Wakamatsu (Hokkai High School?) |
5 comments:
1472 cards? Gotta wonder how many completed sets were ever built. Very cool cards.
Just think how many potato chips it would have taken!
I know... right?
Isao Harimoto's high school is usually referred to as "Namisho". The word 浪華 actually translates as "naniwa" and means basically the Osaka area.
I love that subset, I have a few of them in my collection too.
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