Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

 Happy 2016 everyone.  I didn`t post too often here during 2015 (having a baby will cut down on your blogging) but I actually did add q...

 It has been a few months since my last post, which is unusual given that it is the middle of the baseball season which usually coincides...

 When I look around baseball card websites, blogs and magazines I see a lot of pictures of baseball cards.  Pretty much any baseball card ...

Above is a 1964 Topps card of Ernie Banks, the great Cub who recently left us for that doubleheader in the sky. This is not a happy b...

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

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 ...

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...