Sunday, December 6, 2020

Card Of The Week December 6

A while back I learned about a 10 card set that BBM had done back in 2004 for the Marines that was given away with packages of Toppo, a chocolate candy made by Lotte.  The cards were only given away in AM/PM convenience stores in Kanto and are relatively rare.  The original post goes into the detective work that Dan (who had picked up the Seung-Yeop Lee card from the set), Ryan and I went through to find the details about the set.

I recently picked up my own card from this set from a seller on Ebay - it's one of the the six cards in the set for Bobby Valentine.  2004 was the first year of Valentine's second stint as Marines manager so I guess BBM felt they should include a bunch of cards of him (funny - it was Lee's first year with the team as well but they only gave him one card).  Anyway, here's the front and back of the card (#MP3) - the photo on the back looks like it's from his introductory press conference:



1 comment:

SumoMenkoMan said...

Oh cool! Love seeing Bobby V make an appearance. Interesting how difficult it is to find this set.