Japanese Baseball Cards

Takeya Nakamura of the Saitama Seibu Lions had a pretty good weekend. Yesterday he came up in the bottom of the ninth in a scoreless game ag...

I've been saying for a while now that one of the great unknowns of Japanese baseball cards are the cards that were issued with magazines...

I've had a busy couple of days lately.  We had some family in town and I've been running around doing local touristy things.  Today ...

Hall Of Fame pitcher and former Fukuoka Softbank Hawks manager Kimiyasu Kudoh was recently named to be the new manager for Samurai Japan , r...

I've been meaning for a while to do a post about a menko set that I really like - the 1962 Marukami "Cartoon Menko" set (JCM 1...

For years now I've been noticing an odd phenomenon in Calbee's annual baseball card sets - there will be several players each year w...

All eyes were on Osaka last Tuesday when the Marines took on the Buffaloes with Roki Sasaki facing off against his friend and Samurai Japan ...