Monday, February 24, 2014

The Real Mr. Baseball?

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Mr. Baseball starring Tom Selleck has long been one of my favorite movies about both baseball and Japan.  I`m not sure why that is.  As a ...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

My 1987 Calbee Set and the Difficulty of Collecting Japanese Cards from the 80s

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Behold my partially complete set of 1987 Calbees.  It is the crown jewel of my Japanese baseball card collection and the only vintage set ...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Blog....ON! 2014 Baseball Card Collecting Season has Begun

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 The blog is back!  As always happens in about November I tend to put my baseball card collection to the side when the season ends and di...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

In my Mailbox: A Bunch of Calbee Baseball Cards

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 I love it when something nice arrives in the mail.  Yesterday I got the above package which contained this:  One of those Calbee Pro ...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

Just how Rare are Calbee Cards?

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I was intrigued to read this article in the Asahi Shinbun last year which stated that Calbee baseball cards had cracked the 1 billion ca...
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

A Pile of 1954 Bowman and Why I Collect VG-Ex Condition Baseball Cards

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I have a pretty decent sized collection of vintage (pre-1980) American baseball cards in addition to my Japanese ones.   Most of these I`...
Friday, September 6, 2013

The Literary Offences of BBM Copywriters

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One thing I like about Japanese baseball cards - and particularly BBM premium cards - is that some of them have a lot of broken English w...
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