Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

 I made another find of something I didn't know existed until I saw it for sale the other day: a set of Shonen Club baseball postcard...

I had one of the most satisfying moments of my Japanese card collecting career the other day.  I came across a seller on Yahoo Auctions ...

 Last weekend my wife and I took our son out to the above Book Off Bazaar way out in the southern suburbs of Nagoya.  It is by no means an...

One card that I have been hunting for a while is #416 from the 1974 Calbee set.  It first caught my eye when I saw it in an auction a few...

 I finally picked up my first card from the 1967 Kabaya Leaf set.  NPB Card Guy did a pretty good write up about the set a few years ago ...

 The 1987 Calbee set is getting closer and closer to completion.....yet despite years of effort the finish line remains frustratingly elu...

I have really been getting into the old menko cards from the 1940s-1960s era recently.  It is hard to resist their bold colors and simple ...