I keep mentioning that there were things that Ryan included in the box he sent me back in July that I didn't expect. One of those things was an odd batch of stickers:
These basically look like the nameplate and number from the uniforms of Hal Breeden, Takenori Emoto and Mike Reinbach of the Tigers, Clarence Jones of the Buffaloes and Clyde Wright of the Giants. Ryan thinks he picked these up at Kinkys in Osaka.
Assuming that they were issued while the players were still active, I reckon that they had to have been published in either 1976 or 1977. Breeden, Reinbach and Wright didn't arrive in Japan until 1976 (and Emoto was a member of the Nankai Hawks before being traded to Hanshin for Yutaka Enatsu in the 1975-76 off season) so they can't be from earlier than that. Jone left Japan after 1977 so they're unlikely to be from after that. Ryan independently reached the same conclusion.
I have no idea who issued these or what they really were. The backs of the Wright and Jones stickers are blank but the back of the three Tigers players each have text stamped on them (this is the back of Breeden's sticker):
I think this text says "Please try again" but I don't know that for sure.
So now you know everything that I know about these.
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Actually, the stamp on the back basically means you win. You could redeem that sticker for one more taba pack. The shop clerk usually scribbled or maybe stamped over it to show it had been redeemed so you could keep the original sticker.
Thanks! So it was similar to the "winner" cards in the menko, bromide and Yamakatsu sets (among others). What does the text actually say?
These are super cool. I wish Topps would bring back Opening Day or a product like Topps Kids. They could insert stickers of current MLB players and I'd be all over them.
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