Japanese Baseball Cards

Long time Carp catcher Yoshikazu Kura is yet another 2016 retiree .  Kura was drafted by the Carp in the fifth round of the fall 1997 draft ...

Another player who retired as of the end of the 2016 season was Saitama Seibu Lions pitcher Atsushi Okamoto.   Okamoto was a sixth round pic...

I received my box of the latest KBO set last weekend.  This is the third edition of the "Baseball's Best Players" set overa...

The Australian Baseball League kicked off its 2016-17 season last Thursday.  As usual there are a handful of former NPB and/or KBO players i...

A couple other upcoming releases of note: - BBM is not doing their traditional "Historic Collection" set this year but they are ...

Orix Buffalo pitcher Satoshi Komatsu is another retiring player who, like Yudai Kawai , had pretty much only one good season in their caree...

Hiroki Kuroda of the Carp is another player who hung up his spikes at the end of the season - his final appearance was his start in Game Th...