Here's a card of Kawasaki from the 2006 BBM Hawks set (#H055):
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Card Of The Week August 30
The Tochigi Golden Braves of the independent Baseball Challenge (BC) League appears to have been the last professional stop for a number of notable players in the past few years including Eri Yoshida in 2017, Shuichi Murata in 2018 and Tsuyoshi Nishioka last year. This year Yoshihisa Naruse joined them as a player/coach and this past week the team announced the signing of former Hawk/Mariner/Cub/Blue Jay Munenori Kawasaki. Kawasaki last played in NPB in 2017 with the Hawks after returning from MLB. He sat out the 2018 season with an injury and spent some of 2019 apparently being a player-coach for the Wei Chuan Dragons of the CPBL. I think he had hoped to play with the Dragons this year but COVID-19 restrictions prevented him from being able to travel to Taiwan. His contract with Tochigi officially starts on Tuesday, September 1st.
Here's a card of Kawasaki from the 2006 BBM Hawks set (#H055):
Here's a card of Kawasaki from the 2006 BBM Hawks set (#H055):
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That is a pretty impressive roster of former greats for such a small team. Its nice to know Kawasaki is still playing, he was a favorite of mine when we lived in Fukuoka.
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