The Nittaku Home Flyers

2003 BBM Fighters #102

The NPB subreddit today had a post about the seven different uniforms that the Nittaku Home Flyers wore during the second half of the 1973 season.  The post featured the above photo that was immortalized in the 2003 BBM Fighters team set.  I wrote a post about this topic some years ago but, to be quite honest, I really had no idea what I was talking about at the time.  I will point out that my assertion that they wore different uniforms based on what position the players were playing is completely wrong.  I also didn't have any baseball cards showing these uniforms when I did that post so I thought I'd take a second shot at it now.  

My original post included some scans of pages from "History Of Uniform" which I could not read at the time.  I can read them now - not because I've learned how to read Japanese but because Google Translate has greatly improved in the past 12 years.

Let's start with a little background - Nittaku Home was a real estate company that bought the Flyers from Toei in early February of 1973.  Since training camp had already started, there wasn't time to design new team uniforms from scratch, so instead there were just minor modifications made to the Toei uniforms used the previous year.  The away jerseys were modified to say "Nittaku Home" instead of "Toei" and the Toei logo on the sleeve was changed to the Nittaku Home one.  These were the uniforms that the team wore until the All Star break in mid-July.

The new uniforms were unveiled with the assertion that "the Flyers would confuse opponents with their uniform color strategy".  How exactly that would work was never explained.  1973 was the first year of the Pacific League's ten year experiment with a split season and the Flyers had finished the first half in fifth place with a 25-37-3 record.  They improved to fourth place and a 30-32-3 record in the second half but I suspect that replacing manager Kenjiro Tamiya with Masayuki Dobashi was probably more responsible for that improvement than the uniforms.  

The four uniforms with a white base were home uniforms while the solid blue, yellow and black with yellow sleeves were away uniforms.

There apparently were some stories that the players were confused at all the uniforms and sometimes brought the wrong one to games and had to play in the wrong one but (if I'm understanding the Google translation correctly) that doesn't appear to be accurate.  "History Of Uniform" quotes outfielder Mikio Sendo saying that he didn't remember that happening and that the team always had spare uniforms so it's possible someone played wearing a different number than usual but not a different uniform than the others.

Following the season there was talk of the Flyers and Lotte Orions merging.  Tokyo Stadium, Lotte's home ballpark, had gone bankrupt, leaving the team without a home.  I think the plan was to get two more teams to merge, reducing the number of teams to ten and having all ten teams play in the same league.  It didn't happen and Nittaku Home ended up selling the Flyers to Nippon-Ham in November of 1973.  (Lotte was essentially homeless for five years, playing the majority of their games in Sendai while also hosting games in a number of different parks across Japan.  Kawasaki Stadium became available when the Taiyo Whales moved to Yokohama in 1978 and the Orions played there for the next 15 years.)

I took a look today to see how many baseball cards I had that depicted members of the Nittaku Home Flyers.  I have eleven, not including the card shown above.  I was kind of amused to discover that those eleven cards only feature three different players.  What's more, two of those players only appear in the less interesting uniforms from the first half of the season.  Here are the cards in the order that they were published:

1973/74 Calbee #317 (Satoshi Niimi)

2012 BBM No-hitters #56

2013 Epoch Rookies Of The Year #29

2016 BBM The Ballpark Stories #098 (Naoki Takahashi)

2019 BBM Fusion #44

2022 BBM Fusion #38

All three of the Naoki Takahashi cards commemorate the no-hitter he threw against the Kintetsu Buffaloes on June 16th.

The cards that I have that show the colorful uniforms from the second half of the season all feature Hall Of Famer Isao Harimoto.  Only four of the seven uniforms make an appearance on the cards (and two of the cards have the same photograph).  Again, these cards are presented in the order they were published:

1973/74 Calbee #316 (Isao Harimoto)

2004 BBM Baseball Magazine Insert #1-3/4

2015 BBM Memories Of Uniform #097

2017 BBM Fusion #050

2017 BBM Fusion #050 (Secret Version)

I am aware of additional four cards that show members of the team from the 1973/74 Calbee set.  I swiped the images of three of these from TCDB and the other from Mandarake.  Three of these cards show the same uniform that Harimoto is wearing in the Calbee card above while the other card shows Katsuo Ohsugi wearing the uniform from the first half of the season:

1973/74 Calbee #207 (Isao Harimoto)

1973/74 Calbee #208 (Katsuo Ohsugi)

1973/74 Calbee #209 (Mikio Sendo)

1973/74 Calbee #316 (Katsuo Ohsugi)

These sixteen cards are the only ones I know of that depict members of the Nittaku Home Flyers.  I'm not saying there aren't others, but I haven't seen them.

The players in the group photo at the top of this post are (from left to right) Isamu Nakahara (pitcher), Hideaki Watanabe (pitcher), Tsuyoshi Oshita (2b), Makoto Fujiwara (pitcher), Masatoshi Nakahara (SS-3b), Takeaki Yamazaki (pitcher) and Masaki Miura (pitcher).

Series MVP And Winning Manager

A year ago, I went down a rabbit hole based on something that NPB on Reddit had posted about how Daisuke Miura was the 25th player to win a Nippon Series as both a player and a manager.  This year, NPB on Reddit has provided a new rabbit hole to go down by reporting that Hiroki Kokubo of the Hawks was the the sixth person to win the Nippon Series MVP award as a player and the Nippon Series as a manager.  I, of course, had to go research this and figure out who the other five were.  Here they are, in order of when they achieved the feat (i.e. when they won their first Nippon Series as manager) along with a card of them as a player and as a manager.  Like last year's post, I tried to get cards from the years they won the MVP or managed the champions but it wasn't possible in a couple cases:

Tetsuharu Kawakami: Series MVP - 1953; Series Winning Manager - 1961, 1963, 1965-73

1958 "Who Am I?" JCM 54

1997 BBM Giants #89

Masahiko/Masaaki Mori: Series MVP - 1967; Series Winning Manager - 1986-88, 1990-92

1999 BBM Mr Giants #G21

1991 BBM Nippon Series #S1

Shigeo Nagashima: Series MVP - 1963, 1965, 1969, 1970;  Series Winning Manager 1994, 2000

1964 Marukami JCM 14g

1994 BBM Nippon Series #S1

Koji Akiyama: Series MVP - 1991, 1999; Series Winning Manager - 2011, 2014

1999 BBM Nippon Series #S64

2014 BBM 1st Version #082

Kimiyasu Kudoh: Series MVP - 1986, 1987; Series Winning Manager - 2015, 2017-20

1987 Calbee #130

2020 Epoch NPB #037

Hiroki Kokubo: Series MVP - 2011; Series Winning Manager - 2025

2011 BBM Nippon Series #S58

2024 BBM Hawks #H01

Kokubo, of course, has become the 26th player to win a Nippon Series as both a player and a manager.

I was a little surprised to discover that Sadaharu Oh never won a Nippon Series MVP award.

I got curious to see if anyone had ever done the equivalent in MLB - win a World Series MVP award as a player and the World Series as a manager.  Nope, it's never been done.  In fact, I could only find six World Series MVP winners who went onto manage in MLB at all - Frank Robinson, Pete Rose, Bucky Dent, Alan Trammell, Ray Knight and Paul Molitor.  And I could only come up with two league MVP award winners who had ever managed a World Series champion - Mickey Cochrane and Joe Torre - while the list of NPB MVPs who managed Nippon Series champions is quite long (not that I've made a list.  Yet).  The reason for this, of course, is that a star player in MUCH more likely to become a manager in NPB than MLB.

I was a little surprised to discover that the Nippon Series MVP Award predates the World Series MVP award.  The Nippon Series MVP has been award for every Nippon Series which started in 1950.  The World Series MVP award was first awarded in 1955, which means there's 50-ish World Series that do not have an MVP.

Hideki Irabu's Hanshin Tigers Cards

In December of 2002, the Hanshin Tigers made an announcement.  After spending the previous six seasons in MLB, Hideki Irabu would be returning to Japan and NPB for the 2003 season.

Tigers manager Senichi Hoshino had originally intended to use Irabu as his closer but Irabu convinced him to put him in the starting rotation.  It looked like a great move when the former Orion went 9-2 in the first half of the season and was one of the Central League's Monthly MVP in May.  He made the All Star team for the fourth time in his career (and first time since 1996, his last season with Lotte before signing with the Yankees).  He faltered some in the second half of the season, going 4-6, but his overall record was 13-8 with an ERA of 3.85.  He made 27 starts and threw 173 innings, striking out 164 while walking only 47.  The Tigers won the Central League pennant that year, their first one since their first Nippon Series championship in 1985.  His season ended on a sour note, however, as he was slapped around pretty well by the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks in two starts in the Nippon Series.  He gave up five runs in three innings (which included a solo home run by Kenji Johjima) in Game 2 and three runs in two innings (although I think only two of those were earned - both on a two run homer by Tadahito Iguchi) in Game 6.  He lost both games and the Tigers lost the Series in seven games.  Still, it had been a pretty good season for the 34 year old after several up-and-down seasons in MLB.

2004, however, was a disaster for him.  His performance against Daiei in the previous year's Series had revealed a couple of his weaknesses - lack of mobility in defending his position and an inability to hold runners on - and the other teams took advantage of it.  Hoshino had stepped down as manager due to health issues and new manager Akinobu Okada had a very short leash for Irabu.  He only made three starts with the top team, going 0-2 while only pitching 11 innings.  His ERA was a robust 13.11.  The Tigers released him at the end of the season and he announced his retirement due to a chronic knee issue shortly afterward.  He made a comeback with two independent league teams in 2009 - the Long Beach Armada of the Golden Baseball League and the Kochi Fighting Dogs of the Shikoku Island League - but that was the end of his playing days.  He tragically took his own life in 2011.

With that background, I want to talk about the baseball cards issued for Irabu during his two years with Hanshin because they're a bit odd.  Despite signing with the Tigers in plenty of time before training camp, he does not appear in the 2003 BBM 1st Version set.  Nor does he appear in the 2nd Version set.  Nor does he appear in BBM's "comprehensive" team set for the Tigers (which is not quite "comprehensive" without him in it).  He's also not in any Calbee set for 2003.  

What's weird is that he does appear in some BBM card sets for 2003.  He's got five cards across four different sets.  His first appearance is in BBM's All Star set - what was then an annual set that included cards of everyone who made the All Star teams.  He appears in two different box sets celebrating the Tigers championship run - one card in the "Victory Road Prologue" set and two cards in the "Victory Road" set.  His last 2003 card was in BBM's Nippon Series set - another then-annual set that featured all the players who appeared in each year's Nippon Series.  Here's all five of these cards (I don't have one of the "Victory Road" cards so I used an image of it I found on the internet):

2003 BBM All Stars #A19

2003 BBM Victory Road Prologue #14

2003 BBM Victory Road #17

2003 BBM Victory Road #49

2003 BBM Nippon Series #33

There were at least two oddball Tigers sets issued in 2003 that are listed in the older editions of Gary Engel's "Japanese Baseball Card Checklist and Price Guide".  Irabu is not in either of them.  The "Top Foods Hanshin Tigers Championship" set (JMC 516) appears to be a "comprehensive" team set in that it contains cards for all the players on the 70 man roster (except Irabu) plus the coaching staff.  The "Glico Chocolate Hanshin Tigers 1st Half Photo" set features highlights of the first half of the Tigers' season.  Both of these sets are ones that you'd expect Irabu to appear in but he doesn't.

Things improved a little bit in 2004.  He still didn't appear in the 1st Version set but he had two cards in the base set for the BBM Tigers set (and had a "Tigers Nine" insert card as well).  He also appeared in a subset in the 2004 Calbee Series One set that celebrated the monthly MVPs for the previous year.  Those would be his only 2004 cards, however.  I think being banished to the farm team after only three starts prevented him from appearing in BBM's 2nd Version set or any of the later Calbee sets.  Here's his 2004 cards (with the exception of the insert card):

2004 Calbee Series One #M-07

2004 BBM Tigers #T30

2004 BBM Tigers #T83

This is unusual but not completely unheard of.  Cuban legend Omar Linares spent three seasons with the Chunichi Dragons from 2002 to 2004 but almost all his NPB baseball cards are from 2004.  I'm not sure if there's another Japanese player of significance, however, who would have been expected to appear in BBM flagship sets when he was an active player but didn't.

2000 Upper Deck Ovation Rising Stars

I had mentioned a few months back that, thanks to Scott Kaneko, I had completed the "Rising Stars" subset from the 2000 Upper Deck Ovation set.  Now that I have the full subset, I decided to take a deeper look at who was in the set and decided to make a post out of the research.

The 2000 Ovation set was the one of the four NPB sets that Upper Deck did in 2000 and 2001.  It had a 60 card base set that was numbered from 31 to 90.  Why such an odd numbering?  Because cards 1 through 30 were the "Rising Stars" subset.  Each of these card was serially numbered to 2000 which seemed like a small number at the time (it was certainly less than the /150,000 for the 1990 Classic Draft Picks set).

I'm not going to lie - I'm not a big fan of this set.  It made my list of my least favorite sets a few years back.  I find it kind of ugly and, to be completely honest, I think the "Rising Stars" cards are kind of ugly as well.  I don't much like cards that have the player's photo superimposed over a background (as opposed to the original photo's background) and the player's name is difficult to read on the front of the card.  (I know I'm really selling you all on continuing to read this post, aren't I?)  But I think my OCD was bothered by the fact that my "complete" Ovation set was missing cards 1 to 30 so I decided to get all the cards.  (Which suggests that if Upper Deck had simply made this a separate insert set, I wouldn't have wanted them.)  I had considered not collecting them all a couple of times over the past few years but I kept at it until I was down to just the one that Scott sent me.

With all that said, let's take a look at who all is in this set.  Here's the list of included players with their team, draft position and career summary - at least all the NPB and MLB organizations they played in.

Card	Player	Team	Draft	Career
1	Daisuke Matsuzaka	Seibu Lions	1998 Lions 1st	Seibu Lions 1999-2006, Boston Red Sox 2007-12, Cleveland Indians 2013, New York Mets 2013-14, Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 2015-17, Chunichi Dragons 2018-19, Saitama Seibu Lions 2020-21
2	Koji Uehara	Yomiuri Giants	1998 Giants 1st	Yomiuri Giants 1999-2008, Baltimore Orioles 2009-11, Texas Rangers 2011-12, Boston Red Sox 2013-16, Chicago Cubs 2017, Yomiuri Giants 2018-19
3	Kosuke Fukudome	Chunichi Dragons	1998 Dragons 1st	Chunichi Dragons 1999-2007, Chicago Cubs 2008-11, Cleveland Indians 2011, Chicago White Sox 2012, New York Yankees 2012, Hanshin Tigers 2013-20, Chunichi Dragons 2021-22
4	Hidetaka Kawagoe	Orix BlueWave	1998 BlueWave 2nd	Orix BlueWave/Buffaloes 1999-2009, Chiba Lotte Marines 2010-11
5	Tomohiro Nioka	Yomiuri Giants	1998 Giants 2nd	Yomiuri Giants 1999-2008, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 2009-13
6	Shinobu Fukuhara	Hanshin Tigers	1998 Tigers 3rd	Hanshin Tigers 1999-2016
7	Yuhki Tanaka	Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes	1997 Buffaloes 5th	Kintetsu/Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes 1999-2001, Orix BlueWave/Buffaloes 2002-2008, Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2009-10
8	Ryota Igarashi	Yakult Swallows	1997 Swallows 2nd	Yakult Swallows/Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1998-2009, New York Mets 2010-11, Toronto Blue Jays 2012, New York Yankees 2012, Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 2013-2018, Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2019-20
9	Akihiro Higashide	Hiroshima Toyo Carp	1998 Carp 1st	Hiroshima Toyo Carp 1999-2015
10	Yoshihiro Tateyama	Nippon-Ham Fighters	1998 Fighters 2nd	Nippon-Ham Fighters/Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 1999-2010, Texas Rangers 2011-13, New York Yankees 2013-14, Hanshin Tigers 2014
11	Naoyuki Shimizu	Chiba Lotte Marines	1999 Marines 2nd	Chiba Lotte Marines 2000-09, Yokohama BayStars/DeNA Baystars 2010-12
12	Shogo Akada	Seibu Lions	1998 Lions 2nd	Seibu/Saitama Seibu Lions 1999-2009, Orix Buffaloes 2010-12, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 2013-14
13	Soji Tanaka	Fukuoka Daiei Hawks	1999 Hawks 1st	Fukuoka Daiei Hawks 2000-04
14	Naoki Matoba	Fukuoka Daiei Hawks	1999 Hawks 3rd	Fukuoka Daiei/Softbank Hawks 2000-09, Chiba Lotte Marines 2010-12
15	Hisashi Takayama	Seibu Lions	1999 Lions 1st	Seibu/Saitama Seibu Lions 2000-13, Hanshin Tigers 2013-14
16	Kazuo Yamaguchi	Orix BlueWave	1999 BlueWave 1st	Orix BlueWave/Buffaloes 1999-2009
17	Kaoru Takahashi	Chiba Lotte Marines	1999 Marines 1st	Chiba Lotte Marines 2000-03
18	Itsuki Shoda	Nippon-Ham Fighters	1999 Fighters 1st	Nippon-Ham Fighters/Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 2000-06, Hanshin Tigers 2007-08, Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2012-13
19	Kensuke Tanaka	Nippon-Ham Fighters	1999 Fighters 2nd	Nippon-Ham Fighters/Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 2000-12, San Francisco Giants 2013, Texas Rangers 2014, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 2015-19
20	Daisuke Miyamoto	Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes	1999 Buffaloes 1st	Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes 2000-04, Orix Buffaloes 2005-09
21	Fumitoshi Takano	Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes	1999 Buffaloes 6th	Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes 2000-04, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 2005-08
22	Kenta Asakura	Chunichi Dragons	1999 Dragons 1st	Chunichi Dragons 2000-15
23	Kenshin Kawakami	Chunichi Dragons	1997 Dragons 1st	Chunichi Dragons 1998-2008, Atlanta Braves 2009-10, Chunichi Dragons 2012-15
24	Hisanori Takahashi	Yomiuri Giants	1999 Giants 1st	Yomiuri Giants 2000-09, New York Mets 2010, Los Angeles Angels 2011-12, Pittsburgh Pirates 2012, Chicago Cubs 2013, Yokohama DeNA Baystars 2014-15
25	Kazunori Tanaka	Yokohama BayStars	1999 BayStars 1st	Yokohama BayStars 2000-06
26	Atsushi Kizuka	Yokohama BayStars	1999 BayStars 2nd	Yokohama BayStars 2000-10
27	Yoshiyuki Noguchi	Yakult Swallows	1999 Swallows 1st	Yakult Swallows/Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2000-14
28	Takaya Kawauchi	Hiroshima Toyo Carp	1999 Carp 1st	Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2000-15
29	Tetsuto Tomabechi	Hiroshima Toyo Carp	1999 Carp 6th	Hiroshima Toyo Carp 2000-06
30	Kanichi Matoba	Hanshin Tigers	1999 Tigers 1st	Hanshin Tigers 2000-05

30's kind of a weird number for an NPB set (or subset or insert set) since it's not a multiple of 12 and usually an NPB set has the same number of cards per team.  For this set, though, half of the teams (Dragons, Carp, Fighters, Buffaloes, Lions and Giants) have three cards while the other half (Marines, Hawks, Tigers, BlueWave, Swallows and Baystars) only have two cards.

It's a kind of interesting collection of players.  The first three cards were probably the biggest "prospects" in NPB in 2000 - Daisuke Matsuzaka, Koji Uehara and Kosuke Fukudome.  Matsuzaka and Uehara had been the 1999 Rookies of the Year for the Pacific League and Central League respectively.  Those three were the only players in the subset to also have "regular" cards in base set.  Kenshin Kawakami was the 1998 Central League Rookie Of The Year.  Oddly enough though, the 1998 PL Rookie Of The Year - Tatsuya Ozeki - is not in the subset.  Like any other old set of "prospects", it has guys who had really stellar careers, guys who were average players and guys whose careers were pretty short.

Eight of the players spent some time in MLB organizations - Fukudome, Matsuzaka, Uehara, Kawakami, Kosuke Tanaka, Hisanori Takahashi, Yoshihiro Tateyama and Ryota Igarashi.  That's not including Itsuki Shoda who went to spring training with the Red Sox in 2011 (and pitched in the Can-Am League for the Shikoku Island All Stars in 2015, 2016 and 2019) or Kazunori Tanaka who spent 2007-08 with the York Revolution of the Atlantic League.

The oldest player in the set was Hidetaka Kawagoe who was 26 when the 2000 season opened (and would turn 27 on June 8th).  The youngest player was Takaya Kawauchi who was about 18 and three months on Opening Day that year.  Fukudome was the last player in the set to be active in NPB - he retired after the 2022 season (although Shoda was active with the Ehime Mandarin Pirates of the Shikoku Island League the following season).  On the other end of the career length spectrum, arm injuries ended Kaoru Takahashi's career after just four years with him never making any appearances with the top team.

Eighteen of the players were "rookies" in the NPB card sense that year (as opposed to the "NPB rookie eligibility" sense), meaning that they had been drafted in the 1999 draft.  This includes all twelve of the first round picks that year.  Nine of the players had been taken in the 1998 draft, including four first round picks - Matsuzaka, Fukudome, Uehara and Akihiro Higashide.  The remaining three players were 1997 draftees although only one of them - Kawakami - was a first round pick.

Here's each "Rising Stars" card along with a card of the player from later in his career.  I tried to pick cards from the player's final season but it proved difficult in a couple cases since I didn't start getting the complete BBM team sets for all 12 teams until 2015.  And Kaoru Takahashi's final year corresponds to the first year that BBM did a comprehensive team set for the Marines so with the exception of his 2003 BBM Marines card (which I don't have), all his cards are from 2000.  So I picked cards from their last season when I could (or from the following year's BBM Retirement sets) and the latest cards I had for them otherwise:

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #1

2021 Epoch Lions Rookies & Stars #05

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #2

2019 Calbee Series One #053

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #3

2022 Topps NPB #158

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #4

2012 BBM Farewell #05

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #5

2013 BBM Fighters 10th Season With Hokkaido #17

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #6

2016 BBM Classic #051

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #7

2011 BBM Farewell #23

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #8

2020 Epoch Swallows Rookies & Stars #15

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #9

2016 BBM Farewell #18

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #10

2014 SCM #282/BBM 2nd Version #707

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #11

2012 BBM Baystars #DB09

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #12

2013 Bandai Owners League 02 #078

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #13

2002 BBM Hawks #101

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #14

2011 BBM Marines 20th Anniversary #23

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #15

2014 BBM Tigers #T65

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #16

2009 BBM 2nd Version #045

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #17

2000 BBM Late Series #585

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #18

2013 BBM Swallows #S29

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #19

2019 Epoch NPB #091

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #20

2006 BBM Buffaloes #Bs26

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #21

2008 BBM 1st Version #351

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #22

2015 BBM Dragons #D05

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #23

2015 BBM 25th Anniversary #099

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #24

2015 BBM Baystars #DB25

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #25

2005 BBM 1st Version #482

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #26

2010 BBM 1st Version #185

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #27

2015 BBM Farewell #28

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #28

2015 BBM Carp #C13

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #29

2003 BBM 2nd Version #570

2000 Upper Deck Ovation "Rising Stars" #30

2005 Konami Baseball Heroes Old White Edition #B05W090