Information on five new BBM sets hit the web this past week:
- Lasr year BBM did a box set called "Icons - Hope" that contained cards of what BBM felt were the most hopeful young players for each team (24 players in all - two per team). This year the "Icons" set is back with a new theme - "Big Guns". The box set features 28 cards (27 "regular" cards plus a "special" card - possible autograph or die-cut cards) showcasing power hitters for all the teams. If BBM puts it together like last year's set, the set will contain 24 single player cards (two per team) and three combination cards. It will be released in late March.
- BBM's latest single player set is for Shota Dobayashi of the Carp. The box set (entitled "Breakout") contains 28 cards - as usual this is 27 cards for the base set and one "special" card. The "special" card could be a foil autograph card, a bat card or I think a real autograph done a card that uses a "Carp design from yesteryear". I think the possibilities for that card design are the Carp sets from 2004, 2006 or 2007. The set will be out in late March.
- BBM announced the first team sets for the year - the Hawks, the Swallows and the Carp. At 90 and 81 cards respectively, the Hawks and Swallows base sets appear to be a little smaller than what's been the normal size of the non-Giants or Tigers team sets recently. The Carp base set is the expected 99 cards. The Hawks and Swallows sets will be out in late March. The Carp set will be out in mid-April.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Suk-Min Yoon of the Baltimore Orioles
Somehow in all the snow and everything in the last few weeks it kind of escaped my notice that Suk-Min Yoon, formerly of the Kia Tigers in Korea, had signed with the Baltimore Orioles. It's a little out of scope for me but I figured I'd do a quick post on what baseball cards there are out there for him.
Being as there don't appear to be many Korean baseball cards, that list is pretty short. He only has one card that I'm aware of depicting him with the Tigers - card #AL-005 from the 2010 KBO game set:
He played for the Korean national team in the 2008 Olympics and the 2009 and 2013 World Baseball Classics. He has several cards for the 2009 WBC - a Bowman Chrome card (and assorted parallels) and two cards from the Konami WBC Heroes set (a regular card and a "Special" card). He also had a card in the 2013 Topps Tribute WBC set. I don't have the "Special" Konami card but I have the other three:
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| #BCW51 |
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| #W09R122 |
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| #76 |
Monday, March 3, 2014
2014 BBM Farewell Set
One of the sets I got from Ryan the other day is my first BBM set for 2014 - the "Farewell" set. This is the fourth annual edition of this set which is dedicated to the players who retired at the end of the previous season. This used to be an annual subset in either the 1st or 2nd Version sets (or both) but BBM started doing a separate box set for this theme in 2011.
Ryan did a post on this set last month where he mentions that the set's official name is "Sekibetsu Kyuujin" which he says roughly translates to "Regret at Parting Ball Players". Maybe we should call this set "Sorry Goodbye" instead.
This year's edition features 21 players on 27 cards. Six players have more than one card in the set - Shijnjiro Hiyama, Kazuhisa Ishii, Tomonori Maeda, Shinya Miyamoto, Kazumi Saitoh and Takeshi Yamasaki. The picture used for the player may have been taken any time during his career - I think BBM tries to get the player shown with their most representative team. So Takayuki Shinohara is shown as a Fukuoka Daiei Hawk even though he played his last four years with the Baystars (and the Hawks haven't been owned by Daiei since 2004).
Here are some sample cards. As always, you can see the whole set at Jambalaya.
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| #14 |
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| #24 |
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| #06 |
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| #02 |
Sunday, March 2, 2014
2014 Epoch OB Club Shigeo Nagashima Memorial Treasures Set
I have not been a fan of Epoch's sets with the Japan Baseball Promotion/OB Club/All Japan Baseball Foundation sets from the past few years. Generally I've found their card designs unattractive and their player selection repetitive. So I wasn't real interested when I saw a few months back that they were doing a set dedicated to Shigeo Nagashima. Beyond my feeling towards their past sets, Nagashima's career has been mined a couple of times by BBM in 1999 (the Mr Giants set) and 2001 (a Memorial box set). But after taking a look at the cards on Jamabalaya, I thought it was a pretty nice looking set and asked Ryan to include it in the trade we were doing. (Ryan, by the way, not only did a post a few weeks back on the set just showing off a card but did another post today that shows all the cards.)
The set is a 31 card box set that includes 30 base cards and a potential memorabilia card. Ryan's first post goes into some detail about the possible memorabilia cards so I won't say much about them other than that I got an opened set (as usual) so I didn't get any of them.
The 30 base cards cover Nagashima's career from his debut in 1958 until his retirement as Giants manager in 2001. There's a separate card for each year of his playing career from 1958 to 1974 and eight cards that capture his managerial career (including ones for each Nippon Series and Central League pennant won). There's also cards for his retirement ceremony, his batting stance and number of home runs, the People's Honor Award ceremony last year and an ad for some sort of table top baseball game made by Epoch that he endorsed. The cards are really attractive. The design features an orange number "3" in the middle of the lower edge of the photo which really stands out when the photo is a black and white shot. Here's a couple examples - you can see all of them either at Ryan's post or Jamabalaya:
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| #1 |
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| #18 |
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| #22 |
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| #29 |
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| #30 |
Even the packaging was pretty attractive. The picture at the top of the post was the outer sleeve around the box containing the cards. The inner box looked like this:
I hope this means that Epoch will be doing more attractive sets in the future.
Iconic
The first card in the first Calbee set was Shigeo Nagashima. This should not be a big surprise as there was no one bigger in NPB in 1973 than Shigeo Nagashima.
The picture on that first card is a bit odd. It's a posed shot, as were many of the pictures used in the 1973 set (at least as far as I can tell) which differentiates itself from Calbee's later sets which mostly used action or candid shots. Nagashima is looking directly at the camera while smiling. He's got his glove on his left hand up on his left shoulder next to his head (which is where I'd suppose that you'd find something on someone's shoulder). He is pointing at the camera with his right hand (which is close enough to the camera to be out of focus). I don't have the original card, but I do have two reprints of it. One is from the Memorial card subset that Calbee did last year to celebrate their 40th Anniversary. The other is this reprint card that BBM included in an issue of Sports Card Magazine in 1999:
I was amused to discover that this pose has been emulated on a baseball card at least twice. The first time that I'm aware of is on this 2007 Calbee card (#085) of Shinnosuke Abe:
The second time is from last year's "Hideki Matsui Memorial" set that BBM did (card #26). Obviously the picture was probably taken before Abe's card but I don't know of any card that used the picture before last year:
Neither pose is an exact replica of Nagashima's but I still think it's pretty cool that Matsui and Abe did a tribute to him.
The picture on that first card is a bit odd. It's a posed shot, as were many of the pictures used in the 1973 set (at least as far as I can tell) which differentiates itself from Calbee's later sets which mostly used action or candid shots. Nagashima is looking directly at the camera while smiling. He's got his glove on his left hand up on his left shoulder next to his head (which is where I'd suppose that you'd find something on someone's shoulder). He is pointing at the camera with his right hand (which is close enough to the camera to be out of focus). I don't have the original card, but I do have two reprints of it. One is from the Memorial card subset that Calbee did last year to celebrate their 40th Anniversary. The other is this reprint card that BBM included in an issue of Sports Card Magazine in 1999:
I was amused to discover that this pose has been emulated on a baseball card at least twice. The first time that I'm aware of is on this 2007 Calbee card (#085) of Shinnosuke Abe:
The second time is from last year's "Hideki Matsui Memorial" set that BBM did (card #26). Obviously the picture was probably taken before Abe's card but I don't know of any card that used the picture before last year:
Neither pose is an exact replica of Nagashima's but I still think it's pretty cool that Matsui and Abe did a tribute to him.
Card Of The Week March 2
Mission Accomplished.
Almost a year ago when I traveled to Japan for the first time I was looking for (among other things) around 150 cards from BBM's 1st Version sets from 2004 and 2005. These were the last two of BBM's "flagship" sets that I was still trying to complete (of the ones issued after I started collecting Japanese cards in 2001). I returned from Japan only needed six more cards - four from 2004 and two from 2005. I was able to get five of those cards last spring from Scott Kaneko, leaving me with just one card left to get - the 2005 card of Hiroyuki Nakajima. I had hopes that I would be able to get the card off of Ebay since he was now playing in the US but it was not to be.
What I didn't know was that Ryan had continued to look for the cards on my want list and tracked down the card at some point last summer (along with a couple other cards). Those cards became part of a much larger trade as he was able to find some box sets I wanted and I had some assorted cards (Japanese and other wise) that he was looking for. I got a box in the mail yesterday from him containing all my goodies, including, finally, the Nakajima card:
There will be a number of posts over the next week or so (sooner depending on how much snow we get tonight) featuring many of the other cards. Thanks for trading with me, Ryan!
Almost a year ago when I traveled to Japan for the first time I was looking for (among other things) around 150 cards from BBM's 1st Version sets from 2004 and 2005. These were the last two of BBM's "flagship" sets that I was still trying to complete (of the ones issued after I started collecting Japanese cards in 2001). I returned from Japan only needed six more cards - four from 2004 and two from 2005. I was able to get five of those cards last spring from Scott Kaneko, leaving me with just one card left to get - the 2005 card of Hiroyuki Nakajima. I had hopes that I would be able to get the card off of Ebay since he was now playing in the US but it was not to be.
What I didn't know was that Ryan had continued to look for the cards on my want list and tracked down the card at some point last summer (along with a couple other cards). Those cards became part of a much larger trade as he was able to find some box sets I wanted and I had some assorted cards (Japanese and other wise) that he was looking for. I got a box in the mail yesterday from him containing all my goodies, including, finally, the Nakajima card:
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| 2005 BBM 1st Version #23 |
There will be a number of posts over the next week or so (sooner depending on how much snow we get tonight) featuring many of the other cards. Thanks for trading with me, Ryan!
Saturday, March 1, 2014
2006 BBM 2nd Version
2006 BBM 2nd Version Set Summary
Size: 311 cards (numbered 502-812)
Cards Per Team: 16 (team card + 15 players)
Team Card Theme: Game Action/Candids
Number Of Leader Cards: N/A
Checklists: None
Subsets: 1st Version Update(20), Youth Explosion (24), Cool And Tough (24), Great Footprint (10), Ceremonial First Pitch (15), Interleague Topics (26)
Inserts: Star Of My Team, I Am Ace, Swing For The Win, MVP ("Light" packs only)
Memorabilia Cards: 10 different - see below
Parallels: 72 cards have either a gold or "hologram" facsimile autograph. The gold were serially numbered to 100 while the "hologram" were numbered to 50. 108 cards have a "kira" version that was only available in the "Light" packs. Each of the regular issue inserts had a serially numbered (to 100) parallel. For the Star Of My Team it was gold leaf text, for I Am Ace and Swing For The Win it was blue foil text.
Notable Rookies: None
In response to the drop off in size between the 2005 and 2006 1st Version sets, the 2006 2nd Version set actually grew in size a little. The growth was only about 35 cards so overall 2006 had about 20 fewer cards than 2005.
The number of "regular" player cards in the 2nd Version set rose from 9 to 15. There were eight players who had cards in the 2nd Version set who did not appear in the 1st Version set - Hayato Terahara (Hawks), Masaki Hayashi (Carp), GG Satoh (Lions), Hisashi Aikyo (Eagles), Teppei Tsuchiya (Eagles), Hiroki Yamamura (Eagles), Tomohito Yoneno (Swallows) and Yuki Yoshimura (Baystars).
Instead of doing parallels of all the player cards as in 2005, this time BBM only did a subset. There are 72 cards (six per team) that have either a gold (numbered to 100) or hologram (numbered to 50) facsimile autograph. There's also a "kira" version of 108 cards (9 per team) that appeared only in the "Light" packs (that were not serially numbered). As I didn't open any packs of this product, I don't personally own any of the parallel cards. However, I found some images on Yahoo Japan Auctions to show:
BBM once again included a subset that was a "1st Version update". The size of this subset rose to 20 cards this time. These cards used the same design as the 2006 1st Version cards except that they said "2nd Version" on them. Three of the players had switched teams from the team they appeared on in the 1st Version set - Ryotaro Doi and Rysuke Minami both moved from the Baystars to the Marines and Takuya Kimura moved from the Carp to the Giants. The remaining players apparently were all late signing players - Justin Miller (Marines), Ken Shinzato (Marines), Matt Watson (Marines), Michitaka Nishiyama (Hawks), Yusuke Kosai (Hawks), Kazuki Fukuchi (Lions), Wes Obermueller (Buffaloes), Hideki Okajima (Fighters), Takashi Kawai (Eagles), Ryan Glynn (Eagles), Eric Valent (Eagles), Claudio Galva (Dragons), Shigetoshi Yamakita (Baystars), Shawn Sonnier (Baystars), Kazunari Sanematsu (Giants), Shigeyuki Furuki (Giants) and Tatsuya Ozeki (Giants). As usual, I have no idea why BBM included some players in the 1st Version update rather than having a "regular" 2nd Version card.
In contrast to the 2005 2nd Version set, the 2006 edition featured team cards. These cards apparently were included at the expense of cards for each team's manager. This is the first BBM "flagship" set to not include cards of the managers. The team cards featured a variety of action and candid shots.
Once again there was a subset devoted to young players - Youth Explosion. The subset contained 24 cards (2 per team). There were at least a couple players - Takehiro Shoda and Kazuya Fujita - who appeared in this subset but did not have a "regular" player card in either the 1st or 2nd Version sets this year. In other words, the "Youth Explosion" cards were their only BBM "flagship" cards in 2006. The other 22 players included were Koji Aoyama, Atsushi Fujii, Yoshiaki Fujioka, Satoshi Fukuda, Yoshihisa Hirano, Yasuhiro Ichiba, Yasushi Iihara, Yoshiyuki Kamei, Daiyu Kanemura, Mamoru Kishida, Nobuhiro Matsuda, Kosuke Matsui, Shoitsu Ohmatsu, Mitsuru Satoh, Eishin Soyogi, Masafumi Suenaga, Ginjiro Sumitani, Kazuya Takamiya, Shinya Tsuruoka, Tatusya Uchi, Hideaki Wakui and Tomoya Yagi.
The set included a second 24 card subset which once again featured two players from each team. The set was called "Cool & Tough" and all the players in the subset were foreign players - Benny Agbayani, John Bale, Alex Cabrera, Jolbert Cabrera, Tom Davey, Sean Douglass, Jose Fernandez, Matt Franco, Karim Garcia, Chris Gissell, Marc Kroon, Greg Larocca, Seung Yuop Lee, Jose Macias, Alex Ochoa, Chris Oxspring, Jeremy Powell, Alex Ramirez, Fernando Seguignol, Andy Sheets, Rick Short, Shawn Sonnier, Tyrone Woods and Julio Zuleta. This is the only subset that I can think of that BBM's ever done exclusively of gaijin players other than the "Nostalgic Stars" subset in the 1994 set.
The cards in the "Great Footprint" subset celebrate accomplishments by players in April and May of 2006. Eight of the cards show milestones reached by players - Akira Etoh's 350th home run, Kei Igawa's 1000th strikeout, Takuro Ishii's 2000th hit, Ken Kadkura's 1000th strikeout, Kazuhiro Kiyohara's 1500th RBI, Hiroki Kuroda's 1000th strikeout, Fumiya Nishiguchi's 1500th strikeout and Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi's 500th game. One of the other cards celebrated Tomoaki Kanemoto's 904th consecutive game in which he played all the innings, breaking Cal Ripken's record. The final card celebrated Tomohiro Nioka's "back-to-back" grand slams - he was the first player to ever hit grand slams in consecutive at bats.
The "Ceremonial First Pitch" subset grew to 15 cards in this set. Only one former baseball player, the recently retired Kazuhiro Sasaki, was included. The other cards were for figure skater Shizuka Arakawa, actor Lily Franky, comedian and Ibaraki Golden Golds manager Kinichi Hagimoto, sumo wrestler Hakuho, Kochi prefecture governor Daijiro Hashimoto, professional wrestler Razor Ramon HG (real name Masaki Sumitani), model Aki Hoshino, sumo wrestler Kyokushuzan, actress Mao Miyaji, kick boxer Musashi, speed skater Tomomi Okazaki, comedy duo Ungirls and golfer Sakuro Yokomine. There was also a card featuring Ultraman Mebius.
There were two subsets in the 2005 edition of the set that spotlighted highlights for each team during the first half of the season - the "Early Season Highlights" (2 cards per team) and the "Interleague Game" (6 cards per team) subsets. For the 2006 set, BBM eliminated the "Early Season Highlights" subset altogether and dropped the size of the other subset (now called "Interleague Topics") to two cards per team. Each card shows a game during interleagure that was significant for some reason. For example, one of the cards shows Rick Guttormson's no-hitter for the Swallows against the Eagles.
In addition, this subset also includes cards for the "Interleague Champion" and MVP which were (more or less) a separate subset in the 2005 set. The Marines were the winners again (and Masahide Kobayashi was MVP).
There were three 12 card insert sets available with the regular packs of cards. Each had a parallel version that were serially numbered to 100 each. The "I Am Ace" cards featured a pitcher for each team. The parallel version had blue foil text. The "Swing For The Win" cards featured a batter from each and its parallel version also featured blue foil text. The "Star Of My Team" cards featured a star player (either batter or pitcher but one who was not in the other two insert sets) from each team. The parallel version used gold foil text.
I did some searching on Yahoo Japan Auctions but all I found was one example of a parallel version of an insert:
BBM did "Light" packs again for this set but I don't know a whole lot about what was in them. There was the traditional "kira" parallels for the player cards (108 cards in all or 9 cards per team) and the usual MVP insert cards. I do not know how many of the base cards in the set were available in the "Light" packs - it wouldn't surprise me to learn that only the player cards were available.
There were 10 different memorabilia cards available in the regular packs of cards - autographs of Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Yasuhisa Hirano, Ryota Igarashi and Kenta Kurihara; jersey cards of Michihiro Ogasawara, Kazuo Fukumori, and Kenshin Kawakami; bat cards for Andy Sheets and Takayuki Shimizu and an undershirt card for Hiroyuki Nakajima.
This was the first BBM set that I ever purchased as a complete set so I don't have any wrappers or boxes to show.
Size: 311 cards (numbered 502-812)
Cards Per Team: 16 (team card + 15 players)
Team Card Theme: Game Action/Candids
Number Of Leader Cards: N/A
Checklists: None
Subsets: 1st Version Update(20), Youth Explosion (24), Cool And Tough (24), Great Footprint (10), Ceremonial First Pitch (15), Interleague Topics (26)
Inserts: Star Of My Team, I Am Ace, Swing For The Win, MVP ("Light" packs only)
Memorabilia Cards: 10 different - see below
Parallels: 72 cards have either a gold or "hologram" facsimile autograph. The gold were serially numbered to 100 while the "hologram" were numbered to 50. 108 cards have a "kira" version that was only available in the "Light" packs. Each of the regular issue inserts had a serially numbered (to 100) parallel. For the Star Of My Team it was gold leaf text, for I Am Ace and Swing For The Win it was blue foil text.
Notable Rookies: None
In response to the drop off in size between the 2005 and 2006 1st Version sets, the 2006 2nd Version set actually grew in size a little. The growth was only about 35 cards so overall 2006 had about 20 fewer cards than 2005.
The number of "regular" player cards in the 2nd Version set rose from 9 to 15. There were eight players who had cards in the 2nd Version set who did not appear in the 1st Version set - Hayato Terahara (Hawks), Masaki Hayashi (Carp), GG Satoh (Lions), Hisashi Aikyo (Eagles), Teppei Tsuchiya (Eagles), Hiroki Yamamura (Eagles), Tomohito Yoneno (Swallows) and Yuki Yoshimura (Baystars).
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| #582 |
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| #664 |
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| #676 |
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| Back of #540 (Tsuyoshi Wada) |
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| Gold Parallel version of #696 |
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| Gold Parallel version of #696 back |
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| Hologram parallel version of #610 |
BBM once again included a subset that was a "1st Version update". The size of this subset rose to 20 cards this time. These cards used the same design as the 2006 1st Version cards except that they said "2nd Version" on them. Three of the players had switched teams from the team they appeared on in the 1st Version set - Ryotaro Doi and Rysuke Minami both moved from the Baystars to the Marines and Takuya Kimura moved from the Carp to the Giants. The remaining players apparently were all late signing players - Justin Miller (Marines), Ken Shinzato (Marines), Matt Watson (Marines), Michitaka Nishiyama (Hawks), Yusuke Kosai (Hawks), Kazuki Fukuchi (Lions), Wes Obermueller (Buffaloes), Hideki Okajima (Fighters), Takashi Kawai (Eagles), Ryan Glynn (Eagles), Eric Valent (Eagles), Claudio Galva (Dragons), Shigetoshi Yamakita (Baystars), Shawn Sonnier (Baystars), Kazunari Sanematsu (Giants), Shigeyuki Furuki (Giants) and Tatsuya Ozeki (Giants). As usual, I have no idea why BBM included some players in the 1st Version update rather than having a "regular" 2nd Version card.
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| 1st Version #298 and 2nd Version #502 |
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| 1st Version #420 and 2nd Version #521 |
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| #812 |
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| #809 |
Once again there was a subset devoted to young players - Youth Explosion. The subset contained 24 cards (2 per team). There were at least a couple players - Takehiro Shoda and Kazuya Fujita - who appeared in this subset but did not have a "regular" player card in either the 1st or 2nd Version sets this year. In other words, the "Youth Explosion" cards were their only BBM "flagship" cards in 2006. The other 22 players included were Koji Aoyama, Atsushi Fujii, Yoshiaki Fujioka, Satoshi Fukuda, Yoshihisa Hirano, Yasuhiro Ichiba, Yasushi Iihara, Yoshiyuki Kamei, Daiyu Kanemura, Mamoru Kishida, Nobuhiro Matsuda, Kosuke Matsui, Shoitsu Ohmatsu, Mitsuru Satoh, Eishin Soyogi, Masafumi Suenaga, Ginjiro Sumitani, Kazuya Takamiya, Shinya Tsuruoka, Tatusya Uchi, Hideaki Wakui and Tomoya Yagi.
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| #719 |
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| #707 |
The set included a second 24 card subset which once again featured two players from each team. The set was called "Cool & Tough" and all the players in the subset were foreign players - Benny Agbayani, John Bale, Alex Cabrera, Jolbert Cabrera, Tom Davey, Sean Douglass, Jose Fernandez, Matt Franco, Karim Garcia, Chris Gissell, Marc Kroon, Greg Larocca, Seung Yuop Lee, Jose Macias, Alex Ochoa, Chris Oxspring, Jeremy Powell, Alex Ramirez, Fernando Seguignol, Andy Sheets, Rick Short, Shawn Sonnier, Tyrone Woods and Julio Zuleta. This is the only subset that I can think of that BBM's ever done exclusively of gaijin players other than the "Nostalgic Stars" subset in the 1994 set.
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| #741 |
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| #728 |
The cards in the "Great Footprint" subset celebrate accomplishments by players in April and May of 2006. Eight of the cards show milestones reached by players - Akira Etoh's 350th home run, Kei Igawa's 1000th strikeout, Takuro Ishii's 2000th hit, Ken Kadkura's 1000th strikeout, Kazuhiro Kiyohara's 1500th RBI, Hiroki Kuroda's 1000th strikeout, Fumiya Nishiguchi's 1500th strikeout and Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi's 500th game. One of the other cards celebrated Tomoaki Kanemoto's 904th consecutive game in which he played all the innings, breaking Cal Ripken's record. The final card celebrated Tomohiro Nioka's "back-to-back" grand slams - he was the first player to ever hit grand slams in consecutive at bats.
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The "Ceremonial First Pitch" subset grew to 15 cards in this set. Only one former baseball player, the recently retired Kazuhiro Sasaki, was included. The other cards were for figure skater Shizuka Arakawa, actor Lily Franky, comedian and Ibaraki Golden Golds manager Kinichi Hagimoto, sumo wrestler Hakuho, Kochi prefecture governor Daijiro Hashimoto, professional wrestler Razor Ramon HG (real name Masaki Sumitani), model Aki Hoshino, sumo wrestler Kyokushuzan, actress Mao Miyaji, kick boxer Musashi, speed skater Tomomi Okazaki, comedy duo Ungirls and golfer Sakuro Yokomine. There was also a card featuring Ultraman Mebius.
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| #766 |
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| #771 |
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| #795 |
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| #784 |
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| #777 |
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| #778 |
There were three 12 card insert sets available with the regular packs of cards. Each had a parallel version that were serially numbered to 100 each. The "I Am Ace" cards featured a pitcher for each team. The parallel version had blue foil text. The "Swing For The Win" cards featured a batter from each and its parallel version also featured blue foil text. The "Star Of My Team" cards featured a star player (either batter or pitcher but one who was not in the other two insert sets) from each team. The parallel version used gold foil text.
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| #IA04 |
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| #SW02 |
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| #WT01 |
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| #IA03 |
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| Back of #IA03 |
BBM did "Light" packs again for this set but I don't know a whole lot about what was in them. There was the traditional "kira" parallels for the player cards (108 cards in all or 9 cards per team) and the usual MVP insert cards. I do not know how many of the base cards in the set were available in the "Light" packs - it wouldn't surprise me to learn that only the player cards were available.
There were 10 different memorabilia cards available in the regular packs of cards - autographs of Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Yasuhisa Hirano, Ryota Igarashi and Kenta Kurihara; jersey cards of Michihiro Ogasawara, Kazuo Fukumori, and Kenshin Kawakami; bat cards for Andy Sheets and Takayuki Shimizu and an undershirt card for Hiroyuki Nakajima.
This was the first BBM set that I ever purchased as a complete set so I don't have any wrappers or boxes to show.
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