Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

Baseball card collecting memes for those of us collecting Japanese cards.

This is another recent pick up: Minoru Murayama's 1959 Maruya JCM 69 Menko.  Murayama was one of the top pitchers in Japan in the 196...

 I haven't really been working on the 1977 Calbee set like I am with its predecessor, the 1975-76-77 Monster.   The 77 set is way mo...

I made another impulse purchase on Yahoo Auctions.  I'm way over budget and need to stop.  But these things keep popping up and I ca...

Voila!  I have a Sadaharu Oh rookie card! Since picking up the Engel guide a couple months back I've gotten a lot more into the ol...

Another day another Yahoo Auctions pick up. I got these four from the 1976 Pepsi Chunichi Dragons Round Menko set (JRM 13 in Engel).  I...

I picked up this postcard off of Yahoo Auctions last week.  It is a colorized photo of a scene from the 21st Japanese High School Baseba...