Another Zippy Zapping!

On Monday of this week, I got home from work to discover I had received another large box of goodies from Kenny, better known in the collecting community as Zippy Zappy.  Kenny has been downsizing his card collection recently and there's been several other card bloggers who've done posts about the care packages they've received from him.  And you need to read Kenny's post about the absolutely incredible way he disposed of his largest player collection.

My box contained a couple binders and 800 count box of cards that was only partly full.  I was able to immediately put the binders to good use.  It's like Kenny was reading my mind because I was getting ready to order a couple small ones and now I don't have to.

Off hand, I'm not sure how many cards were in the box but it was probably in the neighborhood of 500 or 600.  What was amazing was that there were around 110 or so that I didn't already have.  I mean, I have a LOT of Japanese baseball cards so it's really hard for someone to gift me cards that I don't already have.  But once again, Kenny did it!

I'm not going to go over all the cards he sent but I do want to try to give a pretty good overview of what he sent that I didn't already have.  Kenny is a Dragons fan (like me) so a lot of the cards were Dragons related.  He is (or was) a fan of Hiroki Kuroda and (to a lesser extent) Masahiro Tanaka so you'll see all that reflected in the cards I'm going to show.

Let's start off with a couple vintage 1970's menko cards:

1975 Pepsi Menko (Osamu Hirose)

1976 Mitsuya Round Menko JRM 12 (Hiroaki Inoue)

There was also some Calbee's from the 20th Century:

1987 Calbee #166 (Sadaaki Yoshimura)

1997 Calbee #141

 And a bunch of 21st Century Calbee - heavy on the Kurodas:

2001 Calbee #169

2001 Calbee #091

2002 Calbee #030

2002 Calbee #AS-04

2003 Calbee #OP-03

2004 Calbee #064

2005 Calbee #062

2005 Calbee #IL-17

2006 Calbee #188

2007 Calbee #IL-11

2007 Calbee #T-15

2009 Calbee #239

2009 Calbee #142

2010 Calbee #TP-15

2012 Calbee #S-49

2014 Calbee #S-20

2015 Calbee #S-19

2016 Calbee #L-08

2018 Calbee #S-22

2019 Calbee #S-37

2020 Calbee #S-21

There were a bunch of cards from various BBM Dragons team sets over the years.  First up a card from the 1997 set:

1997 BBM Dragons #D36

A couple cards from the 2012 BBM The Master Of Dragons set - that's a /100 "Printed Autograph" card of Yudai Kawai:

2012 BBM The Master Of Dragons #18

A handful of cards from the 2014 Dragons set:

2014 BBM Dragons #D72

2014 BBM Dragons #D75

2014 BBM Dragons #D83

2014 BBM Dragons #D78 (Koji Fukutani)

A bunch of inserts from BBM Dragons sets between 2014 and 2019.  Most of these don't scan well and the ones that REALLY don't scan well are serially numbered:

2014 BBM Dragons #KR6

2015 BBM Dragons #RD03

2016 BBM Dragons #FS1

2017 BBM Dragons #AC1

2017 BBM Dragons #SM3

2017 BBM Dragons #HB2

2017 BBM Dragons #NM1

2017 BBM Dragons #TP2

2018 BBM Dragons #UN3

2019 BBM Dragons #BL1

There were some cards from some other BBM team sets as well (the Tigers card is a foil parallel):

2008 BBM Hawks #H18

2008 BBM Tigers #T-021

2007 BBM Card #C94,C95&C96

2007 BBM Carp Koibumi #15

2007 BBm Giants #G049

There were two "Rivals" insert cards from the 1997 BBM set.  These were diecut cards that paired two players from each team and could be put together to form a full photo of the team's ballpark:

1997 BBM #R17&R18

Kenny included some cards from BBM's high end set Genesis:

2014 BBM Genesis #082

2016 BBM Genesis #018

2016 BBM Genesis #093

The Tanishige card is a red parallel (/50) and the Ohno is a green parallel (/120).

There were some BBM promo cards - a couple of these are double sided so I scanned both sides:

Not all of the promo cards Kenny sent me were from BBM.  These two were from Epoch's "1987" from 2011:

Masaru Uno

Tatsuo Komatsu

There were also a couple of the Calbee-esque "mini" parallel cards from the 2010 Epoch "1977" set:

2010 Epoch "1977" #15 (Hiroaki Inoue)

2010 Epoch "1977" #06 (Kenichi Yazawa)

Some other cards from assorted Epoch sets:

2015 Epoch MVP Of The Year #P-11 (/30)

2016 Epoch Carp Stars & Legends #03

2016 Epoch Dragons Record Breakers #29

2016 Epoch Dragons Record Breakers #8

2018 Epoch Dragons Rookies & Stars #17

2018 Epoch Dragons Rookies & Stars #65 (Alternate Photo)

2019 Epoch Dragons Rookies & Stars #24 (Alternate Photo)

2019 Epoch Dragons Rookies & Stars #01

2019 Epoch Dragons Rookies & Stars #01 (Alternate Photo)

A couple cards from some collectible card game sets (I'm taking my best guess on the Konami sets):

2010 Bandai Owners League 01 #004

2008 Konami Baseball Heroes Power Up Version #C08S017

2009 Konami Baseball Heroes #B09G005

2011 Konami Baseball Heroes ShineStar Opening Version Black #B11RB103

2012 Konami Baseball Heroes Black #B12RB018

A couple cards from some other sets:

2016 Kabaya Central League Gum #05

2022 Bowman NPB #13

I saved the best for last - there were nine "Authentic Autograph" cards in the box, seven from BBM and two from Epoch:

2009 BBM Dragons

2011 BBM Dragons

2011 BBM Neo-Dragons

2013 BBM Dragons

2017 BBM Dragons Heat

2021 BBM Dragons

2017 BBM Time Travel 1975

2015 Epoch Chunichi Dragons X Mizuno

2016 Epoch Dragons Record Breakers

All the BBM autographs except for Tajima are sticker autographs.  Tajima and the two Epoch ones are on-card.

Thanks again, Kenny!