This latest envelope contained three cards. The first two were two more of the Calbee "Pro Yakyu Spirits A" cards like he had previous sent me. Both of these cards were from the set that came out at the end of January (as opposed to the beginning of last December):
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| 2025 Calbee Pro Yakyu Spirits A #PS-49 (Trey Cabbage) |
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| 2025 Calbee Pro Yakyu Spirits A #PS-68 (Kota Tatsu) |
The final card was from last year's Topps NPB set and is of Nikita Moiseev, the second pick of the Swallows in the 2024 draft. Moiseev is kind of an interesting story. My first thought when I saw this card was that, like Louis Okoye and other players with Western names, one of his parents must have been Japanese. That's not the case, though, Moiseev's parents are both Russians living in Aichi prefecture. I don't think he's a Japanese citizen, but because he attended a Japanese high school, he was subject to the NPB draft.
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| 2025 Topps NPB #197 |
Moiseev made his ichi-gun debut on Friday, the day before I got his card.
Thanks again for the cards, Kenny!
1 comment:
Okay that's the most dramatic breaking through the card borders treatment I've seen on the 2025 Topps design and I kind of dig it since it looks almost like a completely new design now.
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