Japanese Baseball Cards: SCM Cards From Ryan

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

SCM Cards From Ryan

One of my on-going projects is attempting to get every baseball related card that was given away in issues of Sports Card Magazine (SCM). Or at least get every baseball related card that was not simply a promo for a BBM set. I haven't put together an actual want list or anything and I haven't quite determined all the cards that aren't promos so the project is kind of vague right now. However, a while back I saw someone selling a bunch of SCM cards on Yahoo! Japan Auctions for about 100 yen apiece so I asked Ryan to pick them up for me. It was 29 auctions in all so I'm very grateful to Ryan for being willing to bid on all of them for me. Here are all the cards in chronological order with minimal comment from me:

I didn't realize until I got it that this Kazuyoshi Tatsunami card was actually a promo for the 1997 BBM Dragons set.

This 1998 card shows a cover of Shukan (Weekly) Baseball from October 9th, 1961 with Hiroshi Gondoh and Shigeo Nagashima.

BBM didn't start numbering the SCM cards until 1999 so this card of Koji Akiyama celebrating his MVP award from the 1999 Nippon Series is the first of these cards to have a number.

1999 SCM #6

2003 SCM #23

2003 SCM #25

2003 SCM #30

2003 SCM #31

The back of this 2004 card of Daisuke Matsuzaka shows him holding a bat for some reason.

2004 SCM #35

2004 SCM #42

2005 SCM #44

2005 SCM #45

2005 SCM #46

2005 SCM #54

I thought it was interesting that this 2005 card of Norichika Aoki says that the photos on it were selected by Aoki.

2005 SCM #55

2005 SCM #60

These two 2006 cards feature each league's batting monthly MVPs for May and June of 2006. The May winners are on the fronts while the June winners are on the backs.