Japanese Baseball Cards

I'm a little late in reporting this but a week ago on September 7th, the Hanshin Tigers clinched the Central League pennant.  It was the...

Each of the three games between the Dodgers and Orioles in Baltimore this weekend featured a Japanese starting pitcher.  On Friday, Shohei O...

I have two things I want to mention this week, one being something I should have noticed a few weeks back. First of all, Munetaka Murakami o...

Koki Yamaguchi of the Marines had a couple good nights last week against the Eagles.  On Wednesday night, he hit a three run home run in the...

Hanshin Tigers relief pitcher Daichi Ishii entered today's game in the eighth inning against the Giants and didn't give up a run.  I...

Masanori Ishikawa started Thursday night's Swallows game against the Giants.  He got a hit that night which was his first hit this seaso...

There was a huge trade in Korea last week as the NC Dinos sent the KBO's all time hit leader Son Ah-seop to the Hanwha Eagles for a th...

Four* former NPB players (including three former Hanshin Tigers) have been signed by Japanese teams over the past few weeks.  The Yokohama D...

Last Thursday night the Hawks were hosting the Marines at Kitakyushu Municipal Stadium.  This was one of NPB's "countryside" g...

Yudai Ohno of the Dragons pitched a complete game against the Carp yesterday, throwing 108 pitches while giving up four hits and only one ru...

Kento Inoue of the Baystars hit his first career home run at the ichi-gun level last Wednesday and he made it count.  It was a grand slam o...

Interleague play wrapped up this past week with a makeup game on Tuesday between the Giants and the Marines.  The Hawks were the interleague...

Thursday night in Tokyo, Koki Kitayama of the Fighters came close to making history.  Pitching against the Giants in the ballpark that Nippo...

There was kind of an interesting story that came out a couple weeks ago - former MLB player Eric Anthony, who was raised by a single mother ...

Koji Chikamoto of the Hanshin Tigers got his 1000th career hit yesterday.  I was thinking to myself that that was pretty impressive as Chika...

Two of hot rookies this year in the Pacific League are Rui Muneyama of the Eagles and Seiya Watanabe of the Lions.  Muneyama has gotten more...

Teruaki Sato of the Tigers is leading the Central League in home runs right now and it's not a close race at the moment.  Sato has 12 ho...

Last Tuesday night in Inchon, Choi Jeong of the SSG Landers became the first KBO player to hit 500 home runs .  Choi had become the all time...

There was a no-hitter in Japan last Monday but you may not have heard much about it.  There's two reasons for that.  The first is that i...

2004 BBM Golden Arms #008 I came across the above card of Masaaki Koyama when I was preparing  the memorial post I did for him last week  an...