Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Choi Jeong

Today Choi Jeong of the SSG Landers hit his 468th career home run, pushing him past the legendary Lee Seung-yuop to become the all time home run leader in the KBO.  This is Choi's 20th season and he's spent all of them with the SK Wyverns/SSG Landers franchise.

His first baseball card is from Japan, not Korea - he's in the 2009 Konami Baseball Heroes WBC set (he played for the Korean team in the 2009, 2013 and 2023 tournaments as well as the 2019 Premier 12).  His first Korean baseball card was from the 2010 KBO Game Set but his first LICENSED Korean baseball card was from the 2014 Ntreev Duael Super Star Baseball Season 1 set.  Here's an assortment of his cards:

2009 Konami Baseball Heroes WBC #W09R129

2010 KBO Game Set #AW-007

2014 Ntreev Duael Super Star Baseball Season 1 #SBC01-071

2015 Ntreev Duael Super Star Baseball Season 2 #SBC1502-101-N 

2016-17 SMG Ntreev Superstar Black Edition #SBCBK-049-AS

2017 Vittum Home Run Kings #1

2018 SCC KBO Collection 2 Black #SCCR-02B/079

2019 SCC Regular Collection 2 - All Star #SCCR2-19/013

2020 SCC KBO League Premium Collection #SCCP1-20/S13

2021 SCC KBO Golden Premium #SCC-21/S12

He has cards from the last couple years but I don't have any KBO cards later than 2021.

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