I've got the magazine Shukan (Weekly) Baseball on my mind right now, due to having picked up the new BBM 35th Anniversary + Shukan Baseball 4000th Issue set recently (and finally doing the post about it earlier today). I thought I'd do a quick addendum to a post I did a few years ago about baseball cards depicting the covers of Shukan Baseball as I had forgotten a couple cards.
In 2003, BBM issued their first "comprehensive" team set for the Fighters. The 126 card set included a number of subsets dedicated to the history of the team - or at least their history since they were bought by Nippon-Ham before the 1974 season. One of the subsets featured three cards showing Fighters players on the cover of Shukan Baseball - Isamu Kida (#106), Yutaka Enatsu (#107) and Yukio Tanaka (#108):
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| 2003 BBM Fighters #106 |
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| 2003 BBM Fighters #107 |
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| 2003 BBM Fighters #108 |
Kida and Tanaka both appear in the...takes a deep breath...BBM 35th Anniversary & Shukan Baseball 4000th Issue set. Kida's card features the photo from a different Shukan Baseball cover - the one from May 25th, 1981 while the one from the team set is from the September 8th, 1980 issue.
Tanaka's card, on the other hand, is one of the odd ones that features a photo on the front that is different from the one shown on the cover of the magazine on the back of the card. The photo on the front looks like it was taken at the same time as the one on the magazine cover. The magazine selected, though, is the same one that was shown in the team set:
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| BBM 35th Anniversary & Shukan Baseball 4000th Issue #086 |
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| BBM 35th Anniversary & Shukan Baseball 4000th Issue #086 |
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