Two Way Ohtani Cards

I was having a conversation via Reddit with a collector who was on a trip in Japan recently.  He was telling me about his experiences at some of the Mint stores.  One of the things he mentioned was picking up the Shohei Ohtani card from the "'16 Crowns" subset of the 2017 BBM Fighters card.  He mentioned that it was really cool that it not only showed Ohtani both batting and pitching on it, it also showed both the Fighters' home and away uniforms.  He thought it might be the only one like that.

As you can probably guess, a statement like that gets me thinking that that's something that might make an interesting post.  So I decided to do some research to see if I could figure out what were all of Ohtani's Japanese cards that showed him as both a batter and a pitcher.  I was a little surprised that there appear to only be six and, luckily, I had five of them.

Here's all six, in roughly chronological order - I swiped a scan from Jambalaya for the card I didn't have:

2013 Calbee Series Two #D-07

2013 BBM Young Fighters #YF01

2014 Shukan Baseball Season Memorial #1/2

2016 BBM Fighters Autographed Edition Climax #01

2017 Calbee Series One #T-01

2017 BBM Fighters #F70

As you can see, he was right - the 2017 BBM Fighters card is the only one showing both a home and away uniform.

I will give an honorable mention to the "Two Sword Player" puzzle cards from the 2013 BBM Fighters set as the backs show him both hitting and pitching (and there's at least one card showing him pitching with the batting photo in the background):

2014 BBM Fighters #F93

There's also a promo card for the 2013 BBM Fighters set that combines the images on the two versions of his base set card onto one card.  I don't have this card but I swiped a screen shot of it a while back and I'll reuse it here:

I tend not to count promo cards but I could be convinced to include this one too.  Someone could argue that the Shukan Baseball card above should be considered a promo card too.

I am not including the Kamagaya promo version of his 2013 BBM 1st Version card because while it has photos of him pitching and hitting, they're not on the same side of the card.

These are pretty much all the Japanese cards I could find that show him both as a pitcher and as a batter.  I expect that he has a plethora of MLB cards like that but I don't have any of them, other than this one:

2013 Topps Now WBC-8