Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

As I've detailed in earlier posts, I'm working really hard on the 1975-76-77 Calbee "Monster" set of 1472 cards.   I...

 As I’ve been documenting on this blog over the years, my main (though not exclusive) collecting interests are Japanese Calbee sets from ...

Today's collecting hobby is pretty extreme.  I don’t mean “extreme” in a bad way, but more in the way it is used in phrases like “extr...

I picked up another card I had been hunting for a while last week.  Its not one I need for a set I'm working on, but rather one tha...

After years of collecting vintage Japanese cards using mainly Japanese language resources as a guide, I finally splurged on a copy of the ...

Over the past few weeks there have been some really interesting listings on Yahoo Auctions for Calbee cards that I didn't know exi...

During my visit to Mint Ponyland with Dave last week I noticed there was a bit of an odd language gap between Dave and the owner.  It isn...