Saturday, April 25, 2015

Yamakatsu Taba - Star Wars, Voltron and Space Runaway Ideon

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 Japanese baseball card collectors will be familiar with the post-card sized Yamakatsu cards from the 1970s, which are among the more att...
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Friday, April 17, 2015

Fun Stuff: A big pile of 1985 Calbees

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Among my favorite recent purchases has been a stack of 52 cards from the 1985 Calbee set.  This is one set I only had a handful of cards ...
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Saturday, April 11, 2015

The New Holy Grail of my Collection: 1974 Calbee Frank Howard

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With the new season underway my enthusiasm for collecting has been taken to a higher level, buoyed in part no doubt by how well the Dragon...
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Saturday, April 4, 2015

Lights Out Meiji Jingu Stadium

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I am not sure if this has made the English language news or not, but there is some extremely disappointing news for Japanese baseball fan...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

2015 Calbees are here! And the set seems to consist of 2 cards.

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Spring is here, the season has begun and the Dragons just swept a series against the Giants.  I am a happy camper. And with the new seas...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Some Thoughts on the Unfortunate Demise of Kanji on the Front of Japanese Baseball Cards

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The first time I ever visited a baseball card store in Japan was in 2002.  It was a shop in Himeji which has long since gone out of busi...
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Friday, February 6, 2015

Nippon Ham Sausage Cards

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I picked up a couple of new cards for the collection this week, Nippon Ham Sausage cards of Isao Shibata and Kenji Awaguchi. According t...
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