Japanese Baseball Cards

Like Yuta Shirahama , Kohei Miyadai might seem like an odd player to devote a retirement post to.  He only spent five years as a professiona...

Long time Carp farmhand Yuta Shirahama retired at the end of last season.  Shirahama was born in Sakai but went to high school at Koryo High...

The Hawks' 2010 NPB draft was probably one of their best ever.  They took a generational talent, Yuki Yanagita, with their second round ...

In honor of yesterday being Jackie Robinson Day,  Jim Allen's blog post today had a couple paragraphs on why Dragons' outfielder Ke...

Here's a quick retirement post for Lions pitcher Ken Togame.  He had spent a couple years playing for JR East of the corporate leagues a...

Another player who hung up his spikes after the 2022 season was pitcher Hiroyuki Fukuyama.  Fukuyama had played second base in high school b...

Former Eagles and Swallows catcher Motohiro Shima announced his retirement at the end of last season.  Shima was the third round pick of the...