I wanted to do one more post on cards I got from
Ryan last week. These are just some random cards he found for me.
I spent most of my recent Japan trip thinking that the only card I need to complete the 1998 BBM set was Hirokazu Ibata's rookie card (it turns out I also need the Hawks team card). I went through card shops from Tokyo to Fukuoka but I could not find one. After i got home I found one offered for 200 yen on Yahoo! Japan Auctions and I asked Ryan to pick it up for me:
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1998 BBM #389 |
Another card that I search for unsuccessfully was the final "secret" version card I needed from the
2017 BBM 2nd Version set - the one for Ami Inamura. I found this on Yahoo! Japan Auctions as well but it was much more expensive - 1600 yen! I justified the high price to myself for a couple reasons - I wasn't able to find the card anywhere and it was the final "secret" version card I would ever go out of my way for. I now have 14 "Ceremonial First Pitch" cards of Inamura - 3 cards from 2nd Version sets, 3 cards from Fusion sets, 2 cards from Epoch JWBL sets and six SCM cards.
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2017 BBM 2nd Version #FP05 (Secret Version) |
I've been pretty much ignoring Epoch's "comprehensive" team sets this year except for when they feature either players or coaches not in BBM's team sets. Their Dragons set this year (
like last year) included a card for farm team manager Michihiro Ogasawara:
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2019 Epoch Dragons Rookies & Stars #08 |
I had written before about an oddball
1998 Yoshinobu Takahashi card I'd gotten at Mint Ponyland in Nagoya. It was part of a four card set that appeared to be a combination of a celebration of the Tokyo Dome's 10th Anniversary and an ad for a card show at the Dome in December of 1998. I found a complete set on Yahoo! Japan Auctions for something like 480 yen so I asked Ryan to pick it up for me:
The box from Ryan also included the remaining six BBM team sets that I didn't get while I was in Japan - either from Ryan directly or by buying in a card store. I'll be covering them in my usual BBM team set round up in the next week or so.
1 comment:
That first pitch card is fantastic!
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