Sunday, March 22, 2026

Card Of The Week March 22

A few weeks back, I was thumbing through my copy of the 1973 Calbee book, looking for cards depicting the Nittaku Home Flyers, when I came across a beautiful card of Dragons catcher Tatsuhiko Kimata (1973-74 Calbee #215), swinging a bat with the scoreboard from Nagoya Stadium behind him.  I found the card listed on Mandarake and grabbed a screen shot:


That link from Mandarake had a couple pieces of bad news with it, though.  The first was that the card was sold out and the second was that the price of the card when it was in stock was 25,000 yen which is about $150-ish.  Way too much for me to spend on a card, especially now that I'm not really collecting anymore.  I'll have to console myself with the other Calbee Kimata cards I have, like this one from the 1974/75 set (#39):



1 comment:

Nippon Baseball Retro said...

Great card. I have #213 from the same regional Nagoya series, another great swinging image. That one is also on Mandarake for 'only' 5,500. It's interesting how despite both being from the same short printed series, some of these are definitely more available and not as pricey as others. So many riddles and enigmas with theses sets.