The box I got from Ryan a few weeks back included four Hawks team issued cards. Three of these I had expect. Ryan had given me a couple 2023 Hawks cards of Carter Stewart last year, one of which looked like an action figure still in the packaging. I had found three similar cards on Mercari and asked Ryan to grab them for me:
All three of these cards were from the 2023 Hawks Season Vol. 3 set.
The other card was another Carter Stewart card. It was apparently issued during Spring Training in 2024. Here's the front and back of it:
The QR code is a link to a webpage about the Hawks' Spring Camp which I think they update each year as it's currently about this year's (2025) camp but presumably was about the 2024 camp when the card was released.
Those action figure looking cards are awesome! Not sure if there's a market for them in Japan... but I know I'd be interested in collecting actual NPB action figures :D
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how much is out there in the way of action figures. I know Epoch and BBM did some figurines in the late 00's and Sean's got a couple of posts about some other ones. I don't think there was ever the NPB equivalent of the Starting Lineup figures but I could be wrong.
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