Cards From Ryan

I wanted to do a post showing off some of the random cards I got from Ryan in this recent box.  Some of these were cards I specifically asked him to pick up for me while others were ones he surprised me with.

First up is a 1991 Calbee card of Motonobu Tanishige:

1991 Calbee #51

Here's a couple cards from the 1998 Future Bee set - that celebration card is for the Baystars winning the 1998 Central League pennant, not the 1998 Nippon Series:

1998 Future Bee #7

1998 Future Bee #C-2

Here's the front and back of the 1993 Tomy card commemorating the 1992 Nippon Series - that's Lions manager Masaaki Mori on the back of the card:

1993 Tomy #371

1993 Tomy #371

A 1994 Tomy card of Orix BlueWave manager Akira Ohgi:

1994 Tomy #101

Some of the cards he found for me completed projects of mine.  Here's the last three cards I needed for the 2004 BBM 1st Version insert set for the 2003 Asian Championship winning Japan National Team:

2004 BBM 1st Version #AJ16

2004 BBM 1st Version #AJ17

2004 BBM 1st Version #AJ14

This was the last card I needed to complete my 2001 BBM Tigers set:

2001 BBM Tigers #T83

I finished off two more BBM flagship sets with cards he found for me.  Here are the last two cards I need from the 1994 set and the last one I needed from the 2000 set:

1994 BBM #28

1994 BBM #19

2000 BBM #350

He picked up a bunch of cards towards completing a couple other projects.  I won't show all of these but here's some highlights from the 50-ish 1995 BBM cards he sent me:

1995 BBM #1

1995 BBM #358

1995 BBM #558

1995 BBM #585

1995 BBM #599

He found me about 15 cards from 1996, including the seven I needed to complete the Masaki Saitoh puzzle (again I'm not showing all of these):

1996 BBM #559

1996 BBM #595-603 fronts

1996 BBM #595-603 backs

He got me 12 of the 14 cards I needed from the 1999 BBM set, including ten cards from the Late Series Swallows cards.  Here's a couple of them:

1999 BBM #273

1999 BBM Late Series #616

1999 BBM Late Series #626

He found me yet another card from the 2009 Konami Baseball Heroes WBC set's insert set for the All Tournament Team:

2009 Konami Basebal Heroes WBC #W09A003

I've started trying to get all 30 of the serially numbered "Rising Stars" cards from the 2000 Upper Deck Ovation set and Ryan found the Kensuke Tanaka card from it for me:

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #19

Ryan also surprised me with a bunch of random Epoch cards from the last few years:

2014 JPBA 20th Anniversary Vol. 2 #74

2017 Epoch Tigers Glorious Players #11

2017 Epoch Tigers Glorious Players #03

2017 Epoch JBPA Title Holders #39

2018 Epoch Buffaloes Stars & Legends #18

Those last three cards are parallel versions.

Speaking of parallels, Epoch did a parallel version of their 2010 1977 set that looked like Calbee cards from the same era.  Ryan sent me the card of Kazuyuki Yamamoto:

2010 Epoch 1977 parallel #RP23

He also sent me two more promo cards for the 2019 Epoch NPB set - only 419 more to go!

2019 Epoch NPB Promo #398

2019 Epoch NPB Promo #003

He also sent me a couple promo packs for the 2020 Epoch NPB set but I haven't opened them yet.

Lastly he sent me a 2007 Calbee "Corocoro Comics" promo card of Hichori Morimoto:

2007 Calbee Corocoro Comics Promo #P-4