Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

  I've picked up a few more Isao Harimoto menko cards recently.  I'm a big Harimoto fan, for reasons I outlined in this post here so...

  Another interesting recent pick up (from my guy in Hiroshima with the shampoo from the 70s ) is this two card menko panel, featuring Hanky...

  I made another recent menko pick up (from the same seller where I got the cards in my previous post): four cards from the 1947 set Engel l...

  I stumbled across something interesting on Yahoo Japan Auctions a little while ago. There is a seller, not a guy who specializes in cards,...

  After a fairly lengthy drought I was finally able to pick up some cool vintage menko the other day, from the same seller in Hiroshima who ...

  A rather intriguing pair of uncatalogued baseball menko sold on Yahoo Auctions the other day.  They appear to depict an unidentified play...

  For the first time in a very long time I was able to add some new vintage menko to my collection. These cards are from the set that Engel ...

  I've been away from the blog for a few months.  Things have just been too busy for hobbies! In addition to that though, the sky-high p...

  I stepped away from the blog for three months there.  Everything is good!  Its just that my day job is one of those ones where after years...

  A few days ago I wrote a post about how certain hall of famers, particularly those with exclusively pre-war careers, have very few cards ...

These are ten cards from the 1948 set Engel calls "Baseball Source"  (JCM 103).  I think they are called that based on the text on...

  In my previous post I talked a bit about this pre war menko I recently acquired. I identified it as  Kenjiro Matsuki on the grounds that t...

  A couple of weeks ago I did a post about my big find of a menko from the 1931 Major League All Star tour of Japan.  In this post I'd l...

  I picked up a couple of cards of Yoshio Tanaka (from the 1958 JCM 54 set and  the1959 Yamakatsu set JCM 33g ).  Tanaka is an interesting f...

  I picked up another pile of late 50s menko the other day.  I got a little over 50 cards including the five above, which each feature one o...

  I think these are two of my favorite cards in my collection. They are from the 1949 set catalogued as JDM 2 in Engel and feature Hall of F...

  I have a few cards from the 1950 Kagome "Flying Bats" set (JCM 5).  It is so called thanks to the artwork on the card backs: I...

  I made a really major find the other day.  Probably the biggest find I will ever make. The above card featuring Hall of Famer Frankie Fris...

  I've been reading a lot about how baseball card prices in the US have exploded over the past year on various forums, blogs and social ...

  I added a couple of interesting new menko to my collection last week.  These are two cards from a previously unknown set featuring players...