Cards From Korean Cardboard

Dan Skrezyna - aka Korean Cardboard - is selling his card collection.  He contacted me a few weeks ago about some cards on my KBO want list and we made a deal for nine cards.  He shipped them off and they showed up at my house today.

There are four KBO sets that I'm trying to complete - the 1999 Teleca base set, the 1999 Teleca Premium "Korea Dream Team" insert set, the 2000 Teleca base set and the 2000 Teleca "'99 Korea Japan Super Games" insert set.  The cards from Dan included two of the three "Korea Dream Team" cards I needed and just over half of the "'99 Korea Japan Super Games" cards.

I'll show off the "Korea Dream Team" cards first.  This insert set commemorated the Korean National Team that won the 1999 Asian Championship which was a qualifier for the 2000 Sydney Olympic baseball competition.  As far as I know, this was the first time the Korean National Baseball team was on Korean baseball cards and it didn't happen again until 2021.

1999 Teleca Premium "Korea Dream Team" #D-22

1999 Teleca Premium "Korea Dream Team" #D-15

Once upon a time, NPB and KBO made an agreement that they'd play a post-season All Star series every four years.  They only ended up doing it three times - 1991, 1995 and 1999.  The 1999 games were commemorated in the "'99 Korea Japan Super Games" insert set from the 2000 Teleca set.  There are 46 cards in this subset and I'm down to only needed six more of them - four of which feature Lee Seung-yeop.  Here are the seven cards I got from Dan:

2000 Teleca '99 Korean Japan Super Games #KJ03

2000 Teleca '99 Korean Japan Super Games #KJ13

2000 Teleca '99 Korean Japan Super Games #KJ14

2000 Teleca '99 Korean Japan Super Games #KJ25

2000 Teleca '99 Korean Japan Super Games #KJ31

2000 Teleca '99 Korean Japan Super Games #KJ34

2000 Teleca '99 Korean Japan Super Games #KJ39

I'm curious who the pitchers on the cards of Park and Lee are.  They both appear to be from the Baystars.  According to the Japanese Wikipedia page about the series, there were four Yokohama pitchers who appeared in the games - Daisuke Miura, Kazuo Fukumori, Yukiya Yokoyama and Takeo Kawamura.  All of them are right handed like the players on the cards so that doesn't narrow it down at all.  

The pitcher on Park's card is wearing an away uniform and Fukumori and Yokoyama were the only two who appeared in games where Japan was the visiting team.   The game Fukumori appeared in was in Gifu while Yokoyama's was at Tokyo Dome.  I think that looks like the Dome in the photo so I'm inclined to guess that it's Yokoyama.  It certainly looks like him:

1999 BBM #48

The pitcher on Lee's card is wearing the home uniform and you can probably guess that Miura and Kawamura pitched in games that Japan was the home team in.  Both of those games were inside - Miura was in Fukuoka and Kawamura was in Nagoya - and there's absolutely nothing in the photo that would distinguish one Dome from the other.  If I had to guess, I'd say it's Kawamura but only because I think it looks like him:

1999 BBM #42

Dan discovered that he had some more KBO cards from my want list and those are now on their way to me as well.  So there'll be another post like this in the next few weeks.

Thanks for selling me these cards, Dan!

UPDATE - I forgot to mention that I think that's Hideki Matsui playing center field in the background on Park's card