Japanese Baseball Cards

Stunning news out of Fukuoka yesterday - Saitama Seibu Lions pitching coach Shinji Mori has passed away from multiple-organ failure at the a...

Former Carp, Lions, Whales and Hawks pitcher Tamotsu Nagai passed away last week from liver cancer .  He was 63 years old.  Nagai was drafte...

A very sad story out of Japan last week - former Carp and Hawks pitcher Masato Kawano passed away suddenly from ischemic heart disease .  He...

Continuing my chronicle of Japanese players playing in the North American minor leagues... A couple of years when I was in high school, I ...

Interleague play wrapped up last week and for the third year in a row, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks were Interleague "Champions".  T...

A quick roundup of some new sets that will be released in the next month or so... - Information on the last two of BBM's pack based te...

Tomokazu "Tomo" Ohka, veteran pitcher from the Yokohama Baystars and several MLB teams, has announced his retirement .  Ohka was a...