Thursday, April 26, 2018

Calbee was (almost) way ahead of its time: 1979 Calbee (not) Autographed Bats!

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The thing I love about collecting Calbee, and vintage Japanese baseball cards in general, is that every time you think you have already f...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

A guy with different names on cards in the same set: Koji (Kohji?) Akiyama's 1995 Tokyo Snack Saga

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One set I have been adding a few cards to recently is my 1995 Tokyo Snack set. 1995 is a confusing year in Calbee baseball card history...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Tough day for Cancer

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Its been a pretty lousy 24 hours in cancer related news around here.  Sachio Kinugasa, Japan's Iron Man who played 2215 consecutive g...
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Sunday, April 22, 2018

1993 Calbee Big Size Cards

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 I have added another oddball set to my collecting aims: 1993 Calbee Big Size cards.  I won three of them - Hideki Matsui, Tatsunori Hara ...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Catching the Calbee Pack Breakers: New Rite of Spring (and mid-late summer too)

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Its barely mid April and I have already completed the first series of this year's Calbee regular cards! Well, at least I have all t...
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Monday, April 16, 2018

JMC 1 Mr. Baseball NST Cards

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I just picked up a lot of cards from the 1975 NST Mr. Baseball set.  This is another one of my forays into oddball sets from the 70s, wh...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

These little Yamakatsu cards are just too cute to resist

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 I have a long distance card trading relationship with a collector in the US named Jay.  He sends me Expos cards from the 1970s and I send...