2011 BBM GPBL Cards

I had mentioned the other day that BBM had done cards for the Japan Women's Baseball League (JWBL) in 2010 and 2011 when it was still called the Girls Professional Baseball League (GPBL).  (The league changed its name after 2012).  Ryan included a handful of the 2011 cards with the stuff he sent me.

Pretty much everything I know about these cards is based on what Ryan has posted about them in 2015 and 2018.  The league only had two teams at the time - the Hyogo Swing Smileys (which are now Aichi Dione) and the Kyoto Asto Dreams (which are now Kyoto Flora).  There are at least 68 cards in the set and it looks like each player who is in the set has two cards - a regular one and a foil card.  Ryan's got a roster card from the set that implies that there are 20 or 21 cards of each type for Kyoto but it's not an actual checklist with card numbers - the players are listed by uniform number and the team manager is also listed (but I don't know if they have a card hence the uncertainty of how many cards on the team).  

Here are the cards he sent me:

#04

#08

#11

#13

#14

#23

#25

#32

#33

#35

#38

#54

#58

#59

#61

#62

#67

#68

I didn't recognize any of the players on these cards but over half of the fifteen players - Ikari, Kawasaki, Konishi, Miyahara, Nakamura, Niihara, Ohkura and Tomoko Tanaka - appear in one or both of the Epoch JWBL sets from 2016 and 2018.