Last 2024 Sets?

Time to do a quick listing of the baseball cards sets that have been announced in the last month or so.  I suspect that these will be the last sets for 2024, unless Topps finally decides to put something else out.

- Epoch is releasing another of their ultra high-end active/OB player "Stars & Legends" team sets.  The "Giants Stars & Legends with Memorabilia" set will hit the streets on November 30th.  Boxes of this product retail for 22,000 yen (about $144 and I think contain just four cards - although two of them are likely "special insert cards".  The base set has 57 cards - 16 active and 41 OB players (although those numbers may change) - and there's a serially numbered parallel version of each base set card.  There's Epoch's usual collection of insert cards, five different types of autographed cards and seven different types of memorabilia cards.  All the memorabilia cards appear to be fragments of bats.  I'm not sure who all has autographs in the set - typically the Giants don't allow their active players to have autographed cards and at least one of the OB players (Tetsuharu Kawakami) isn't around to sign anymore.

- The 2024 edition of "Career Achievement", one of Epoch's annual collaborations with the Japan Baseball Promotion Association (aka the OB Club), is schedule for release on December 28.  It's another ultra high-end set with six card boxes retailing for 18,150 yen (~$118) - I think two of the cards are guaranteed to be autographs.  The base set has 56 cards and there's a Hologram parallel of each card.  There's apparently five possible autograph cards - "Authentic" (53 cards), "Tribute To The Past" (24 cards), "Baseball Greats" (14 cards), "Baseball Autographs (White)" (25 cards) and "Baseball Autographs (Black)" (25 cards).  I again can't say for sure who has autographs in the set although it appears that all the players in the set are living.  The biggest names in the checklist are Sadaharu Oh, Ichiro and Hideki Matsui.

- BBM's annual ultra high end set - Glory - will be released in late November.  Boxes of this will retail for 25,300 yen (~$165) and will contain six cards.  The base set will contain 36 cards (three players per team I assume) which all have multiple serially numbered parallels.  There are two serially numbered insert sets - "Miyabi" (36 cards serially numbered /50 with a parallel version) and "Glorious 3D" (12 cards that I assume are serially numbered but I don't know the count).  There are a plethora of autograph and memorabilia cards.  The memorabilia cards include both patch cards and bat knob cards.

- BBM is also releasing a box set for the Lions that is the one set I'm listing here that's not super expensive.  Each Lions Collection box will contain 43 cards - the 42 card base set plus one "special insert card".  The set apparently commemorates the "New Yorker Tartan" uniforms that the team wore last summer.  I'm guessing that the 30 "regular" cards in the base set will feature members of the team wearing these uniforms.  I think that the other 12 cardsin the base set - labeled "Lions-Collection Outfit" - will feature players wearing casual clothes.  The possible "special insert cards" include foil signature parallels, autographs and exchange cards for an autographed memorabilia card featuring (I assume) a swatch of the uniforms in question.  Unopened boxes will retail for 4,940 yen (about $33) although opened boxes will be available on the resell market for a lot less than that.  The set will be in stores at the end of November.