Card Of The Week August 11

The 106th National High School Baseball Championship (aka 2024 Summer Koshien) kicked off this past week and I thought it'd be a good time to show off this 1977 Calbee card of Sadaharu Oh that I got recently:

1977 Calbee #85

It's from the "Path To Stardom" series (Series 3 in the 1977 "Grey Back" set) and shows Oh marching with his Waseda Jitsugyo teammates at the 1957 Spring Koshien tournament.  Waseda won that tournament with Oh pitching a complete game victory over Kochi Commercial High School.  I initially thought this was from the Opening procession for the tournament but if I'm understanding the Google translation of the back of the card, it's actually from the celebration after they won.  Here's the back of the card:

That's next to impossible to read so here's a version where I really turned up the contrast:

Besides making the text more readable, it really enhanced the crease running through the cards.

Waseda Jitsugyo is in this year's tournament and defeated Naruto Uzushio in their first game yesterday.