Getting Back into Baseball Cards....in Japan

 It looks like things are about to get bad in Tokyo.  We've been lucky so far in Japan, despite being one of the first countries outsi...

I picked up the above lot of vintage menko for a whopping 500 Yen (about 5$ US) a couple of days ago.  These are almost all cards from the...

Fortunately my recent decision to put a 1000 Yen cap on my baseball card purchases has not actually prevented me from buying stuff.  Yest...

So I picked up my first bag of 2020 Calbee chips yesterday.  Normally this is my favorite time of the year: the first bags of Calbee ch...

 Well that escalated quickly.  Looks like MLB is postponing its season too along with every other major sport.  This virus is everywhere n...

This is a complete set of 1949 JCM 111 menko baseball cards in uncut sheet form that I picked up a little while ago. When I saw them in ...

 These are my cards from the 1947 set catalogued as JDM 11, one of the first post-war die cut sets produced. Cool cards, eh? If you ar...