More Epoch One Cards

Continuing my posts about the cards that I brought home from Japan...

As usual I asked Ryan if he wouldn't mind ordering some of the Epoch One cards as they became available.  If you're not aware, Epoch One is Epoch's version of on demand cards a la Topps Now although they are cheaper (500 yen) and are available for three days.

Ryan has requested a bunch of cards on my behalf so far this year but by the time I last saw him last weekend, he had only received ten cards.  I selected these either because I liked the photo or because it featured an alternate uniform (or both).   It's kind of a coincidence that there's so many Ryuki Watarai cards - I wanted cards highlighting his historic Opening weekend but I also liked the photos on the cards.

Here's all ten cards - note that the first one is actually from spring training:

2024 Epoch One #079

2024 Epoch One #118

2024 Epoch One #120

2024 Epoch One #145

2024 Epoch One #172

2024 Epoch One #215

2024 Epoch One #222

2024 Epoch One #255

2024 Epoch One #260

2024 Epoch One #271

The highest print run for any of the cards was 1011 for Watari's Opening Day home run (#118) while the smallest was for Takayuki Kajitani's catch (#145) - 39.

I made a point of getting Epoch One cards for the games I went to on my last trip to Japan but I was disappointed that there were only three.  So far there have been seven eight issued for the games I went to and I've asked Ryan to pick them all up.  

Older Epoch One cards were available in many of the stores I went to.  I resisted the urge to buy any of them with the exception of this one:

2018 Epoch One #423

I came across this card at Coletre and I had absolutely no memory of this player.  As it turned out, he played with Yomiuri in both 2018 and 2019 although the only card I have for him was from the 2019 BBM Giants set.