One of the unexpected things that Ryan put in that box I got from him a few weeks back were a stack of oversized cards - called "mini-shikishi" or "mini colored paper" cards - featuring OB Carp players. They're from a set of 15 cards that an outfit called TIC (or "Hits" or "Produce 216") in conjunction with the Japan Retired Foreign Player Association (JRFPA) in 2022. This is the second of three card sets that the JRFPA has been associated with - the other two were box sets with Epoch that came out in 2021 and 2023 (although the set had a "cover date" of 2022).
Like the rest of TIC's "mini-shikishi" cards, these are blank backed and measure 5 1/2 inches wide by 4 3/4 inches high. Ryan sent me nine of them in all - here's seven of them:
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| #N-08 |
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| #N-13 |
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| #N-01 |
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| #N-07 |
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| #N-06 |
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| #N-09 |
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| #N-15 |
I actually didn't realize this until I was scanning the cards in for this post, but two of the cards are autographed! I'm pretty sure these are authentic autographs and not facsimile and I'm pretty sure they were issued by the manufacturer (as opposed to them being signed after-market) since they have a different prefix on their card numbers ("R" as opposed to "N" which I'm going to assume if for "rare" as opposed to "normal"):
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| #R-12 |
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| #R-05 |
The six players in the set whose cards I didn't get are Jim Lyttle, Marty Brown, Rick Lancellotti, Eddy Diaz, Luis Lopez and Randy Johnson.
I never think much about these cards when I see them advertised but I always think they're nicer than I expected when I get some of them. That said, I don't have any real plans to try to get the remaining six cards that I'm missing.
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