I'm going to wrap up my posts about the cards I got from Ryan last month in the traditional manner: writing about BBM's team sets. A large fraction of all the cards he sent me were the twelve "comprehensive" team sets from last season. A "comprehensive" team set is one that has all the players on the team's 70 man roster at the time it was printed (which is usually less than 70 players). BBM issued these sets between April and July of last year.
Each set had a base set of 81 cards which included 62 to 69 "regular" cards featuring the players on the 70 man roster along with the team's manager. Each set also had a single card dedicated to its mascot or mascots and then the remainder of the set was made up of three to five subsets containing one to six cards. Some of the mascot cards double as a checklist for the set. Here's the break down for each set:
| Team |
Player/Manager Cards |
Mascot Cards |
Subsets |
| Chiba Lotte Marines |
68 |
1 |
Spark (4), Hot Topic (5), Gifted (3) |
| Chunichi Dragons |
65 |
1 |
Top Prospects (3), Over The Top (6), Pride & Passion (6) |
| Fukuoka Softbank Hawks |
68 |
1 |
Newcomer (4), Dominators (4), Go For It (4) |
| Hanshin Tigers |
69 |
1 |
Newcomer (4), All My Heart (3), Smash & Crash (4) |
| Hiroshima Toyo Carp |
68 |
1 |
Geneology of Uniform Numbers (3), Special Delivery (4), Now Or Never (5) |
| Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters |
67 |
1 |
Top Prospects (3), Polar Star (4), Batter Up (6) |
| Orix Buffaloes |
66 |
1 |
Fireballers (4), Inner Steel (3), Horn Attack (4), Buffaloes Mountains (1), Love Chara (2) |
| Saitama Seibu Lions |
67 |
1 |
Born In 99 (5), Smash Hit (4), Uplift (4) |
| Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles |
68 |
1 |
New Dimension (3), Tohoku Roots (4), Daybreak (3), Landmark (2) |
| Tokyo Yakult Swallows |
67 |
1 |
Flagship (4), Take Over (2), Accelerator (3), Stay Tuned (4) |
| Yokohama DeNA Baystars |
67 |
1 |
Mighty Lefty (3), Spring Fever (6), Lock On (2), Enhance (2) |
| Yomiuri Giants |
62 |
1 |
Giant Potential (6), Strings Of Giants (6), Changes Of Giants (6) |
There's a total of 802 individual "regular" cards in all of these sets - 790 players and 12 managers. As you might guess, there's a lot of players who show up in the team sets who did not appear in BBM's flagship sets - 1st Version, 2nd Version or Fusion. This includes foreigners like Freddy Galvis, Kyle Keller, Drew Anderson, Robert Corniel, John Gant, Conner Menez, Jacob Nix, Chris Gittens, Nienting Wu and Tyler Austin along with somewhat big named players who maybe in a rough stretch or past their prime like Yasunobu Okugawa, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Naomichi Donoue, Shota Dohbayashi, T-Okada, Yusuke Nomura, and Kazuki Tanaka. Here's a card of a player from each set who was not in any of BBM's flagship sets:
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| 2023 BBM Marines #M51 |
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| 2023 BBM Dragons #D46 |
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| 2023 BBM Hawks #H56 |
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| 2023 BBM Tigers #T07 |
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| 2023 BBM Carp #C36 |
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| 2023 BBM Fighters #F10 |
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| 2023 BBM Buffaloes #B54 |
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| 2023 BBM Lions #L19 |
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| 2023 BBM Eagles #E64 |
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| 2023 BBM Swallows #S08 |
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| 2023 BBM Baystars #DB40 |
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| 2023 BBM Giants #G27 |
2 comments:
I like giants and really wish they'd include real autos. Doesn't feel right to pay the same price as other team sets.
You're paying for the Giants' prestige!
I agree, it's really weird they don't do autographs.
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