NPB Card Guy
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American fan of Japanese Baseball cards. My blog is
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/
Mavis Staples is a god damn national treasure
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Retirement post for Oh Seung-hwan
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Oh Seung-hwan
I have a list of about eight or nine players who retired as of the end of last season that I've been meaning to get around to doing posts ab...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/oh-seung-hwan.html
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The Nittaku Home Flyers only existed for about ten months but left a uniform legacy that everyone seems to remember
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The Nittaku Home Flyers
2003 BBM Fighters #102 The NPB subreddit today had a post about the seven different uniforms that the Nittaku Home Flyers wore during the ...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-nittaku-home-flyers.html
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Five authors, at least five books: Tim Powers Harry Turtledove
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Rob Fitts
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Rob Neyer
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Robert J Sawyer
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Card Of The Week - Some Shukan Baseball cover baseball cards from the 2003 BBM Fighters set
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Some comments on the new BBM "35th Anniversary + Shukan Baseball 4000th Issue" set
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Wrote a post on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics Baseball "event" for the SABR Asian Baseball Research Committee's blog
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Baseball at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were the fifth time that baseball was included as a demonstration sport, following the 1912, 1936, 1952 and 1956 Olympiads.  The 1964 games, however, were different than the…
https://sabrasianbaseball.com/2026/02/20/baseball-at-the-1964-tokyo-olympics/
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My latest Zippy Zappy-ing
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Zippy Zapped Yet Again!
I arrived home from work Tuesday evening to discover another trans-Pacific delivery from Kenny (aka Zippy Zappy) . The brown envelope contai...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/zippy-zapped-yet-again.html
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I recently learned there were test events for Konami's Baseball Collection game with cards issued in 2017, early than the game's official release in 2018
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2017 Konami Baseball Collection Location Tests
Konami's most recent collectible card game was called Baseball Collection. Apparently the cards were won by playing an arcade game and were...
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Card Of The Week - the 1993 BBM Hideki Matsui and its "official" reprints
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Card Of The Week February 15
Someone on the Japanese Baseball Card Discord group  was showing off their recent card acquisitions a few weeks back and one of the cards th...
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17 days ago
RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
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Card Of The Week - Toyota's corporate league team will be playing a couple games in Alabama at the end of March/beginning of April
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Card Of The Week - there are four members of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame who played in NPB
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It's February 1st - training camps have opened in Japan and Epoch has released their first batch of the 2026 edition of their on demand Epoch One cards
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2026 Epoch One Cards
Today is February 1st which means that all the NPB teams opened their training camps today (although since it's already the 2nd in Japan, te...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/2026-epoch-one-cards.html
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Camps have opened in Japan
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Another round up of upcoming NPB card sets - including a new Collectible Card Game
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Spring Is Coming...Isn't It?
My part of the world got dumped on with a bunch of snow and ice on Sunday and the temperatures have dropped into the Arctic range so I want ...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/spring-is-comingisnt-it.html
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Got a RAK envelope from my friend Jason the other day that was filled with BBM "secret versions"
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More Secrets
I got a nice little envelope full of baseball cards out of the blue last week from my friend Jason who used to run an Ebay store called "JK'...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/more-secrets.html
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Card Of The Week - Takashi Ogino is headed for the Czech Republic
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Card Of The Week January 25
It was announced last week that former Chiba Lotte Marine Takashi Ogino had signed with Draci Brno of the Czech Extraliga baseball league . ...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/card-of-week-january-25.html
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Hall Of Famer Andruw Jones' tenure with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of NPB
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Andruw Jones
As you've no doubt heard by now, Andruw Jones was elected to the National Baseball Hall Of Fame in Cooperstown this past week. What you may...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/andruw-jones.html
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Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers: Oh He Dead Indigo Girls Sug Daniels & The Chosen Family Band Hurrah For The Riff Raff Blondshell
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Was contacted recently by someone trying to identify an oddball Ichiro card from 1995
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1995 Densho Ichiro "Big Card"
I got a message from someone recently, asking me if I could identify a card he had. He said he'd picked the card up in the early 2000s from...
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Just a quick reminder to everyone that new Hall Of Famer Andruw Jones ended his career with two seasons in Japan with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. He's the the fourth player enshrined in Cooperstown to have played in NPB after Larry Doby, Rich Gossage and Ichiro
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Quick roundup of some recently announced sets
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More 2026 Releases
There's been a couple new set announcement recently, with one of the sets actually being scheduled for release next week, so I figured it wa...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/more-2026-releases.html
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Takashi Ogino is joining Draci Brno in the Czech Extraliga league
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Card Of The Week - Takahiro Norimoto has a new team
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Card Of The Week January 18
Takahiro Norimoto is not coming to North America this year. He'd qualified for international free agency after being with the Eagles since ...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/card-of-week-january-18.html
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Long time KBO infielder Kim Min-jae passed away this week
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RIP Kim Min-jae
Long time KBO infielder Kim Min-jae passed away from cancer this past week at age 53. Kim was born in Busan and joined his hometown team, t...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/rip-kim-min-jae.html
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The Japanese Baseball Hall Of Fame has elected only one person on this year's ballot(s)
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2026 Hall Of Fame Class
The Japanese Baseball Hall Of Fame has announced its 2026 inductees and the only one elected was Hideki Kuriyama. Kuriyama had a seven yea...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/2026-hall-of-fame-class.html
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New Import post for Song Sung-mun of the Padres
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Song Sung-Mun Of The San Diego Padres
It kind of got lost among the other signings and the holidays but the San Diego Padres signed former Kiwoom Heroes infielder Song Sung-Mun t...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/song-sung-mun-of-san-diego-padres.html
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Card Of The Week - A "color variation" card of Cy Sneed
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Card Of The Week January 11
I have this list of possible "Card Of The Week" topics in case of a slow news week when I have to figure out something to write about. One ...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/card-of-week-january-11.html
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A second Zippy Zappy-ing
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New Import post for Kazuma Okamoto of the Toronto Blue Jays
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New Import post for Tatsuya Imai of the Houston Astros
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My latest Zippy-Zappying
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First Zippy Zappy-ing Of The New Year
Kenny - aka Zippy Zappy - had given me a heads up a few weeks back that there was a new envelope on its way across the Pacific to me and it...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/first-zippy-zappy-ing-of-new-year.html
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Card Of The Week - Kona Takahashi will return to the Lions for 2026 so one half of "Team Long Hair" will remain in Tokorozawa
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Card Of The Week January 4
Kona Takahashi's posting window closes this afternoon but apparently the Lions right-handed pitcher has been unhappy with the offers he's re...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/card-of-week-january-4.html
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It's National Science Fiction Day. Quote-post with one or more of your favorite books.
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SABR Baseball Cards
about 2 months ago
The SABR Baseball Cards and SABR Asian Baseball Research Committees are joining forces to bring you a biggie! Click the link for more info. cc:
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The Japanese Baseball Card Industry. January 28, 8:30 EST Zoom talk with Tatsuo Shinke, CEO of MINT Sports Cards in Japan
Please join SABR’s Asian Baseball and Baseball Card Research Committees as we host Tatsuo Shinke on Wednesday, January 28 at 8:30 pm EST. Mr. Shinke will discuss the current state of baseball…
https://sabrasianbaseball.com/2026/01/02/the-japanese-baseball-card-industry-january-28-830-est-zoom-talk-with-tatsuo-shinke-ceo-of-mint-sports-cards-in-japan/
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Munetaka Murakami's Samurai Japan cards
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Munetaka Murakami Samurai Japan Cards
I had mentioned when I did my "New Import" post for Munetaka Murakami that I had a lot of Epoch One and Samurai Japan cards for him. I did...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/01/munetaka-murakami-samurai-japan-cards.html
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No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet
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A thread of some of the concerts that
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and I were fortunate enough to attend in 2025. Here's James McMurtry and Betty Soo at Elkton Music Hall in March
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Didn’t start using StoryGraph until April but getting a graphic of what I read and then with them in 2025 is kind of cool
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In Memoriam 2025
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In Memoriam 2025
2000 BBM 20th Century Best 9 #T-06 I've seen a couple posts on Bluesky and other places, giving a list of the baseball players who passed ...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/12/in-memoriam-2025.html
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Last of the 2025 Reviews - all the NPB card sets that weren't from BBM, Calbee, Epoch or Topps plus some KBO issues
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2025 In Review - Everything Else (Including Korea)
I'm finishing up my review of 2025's card releases in Japan (and Korea) with everything that wasn't done by BBM, Epoch, Calbee or Topps. Bus...
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2025 In Review - Epoch
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2025 In Review - Epoch
There weren't many surprises with Epoch's card sets in 2025. They issued 18 sets, one fewer than they had in 2024 - although two of these s...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-in-review-epoch.html
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2025 In Review - Topps
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2025 In Review - Topps
It was pretty much business as usual for Topps with their NPB products in 2025. For the third straight year, they issued four sets but they...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-in-review-topps.html
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Card Of The Week - there will be three new managers in NPB in 2026
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Card Of The Week December 28
There will be three teams under new field management in 2026. The Chiba Lotte Marines will be managed by Saburo*, the Tokyo Yakult Swallows...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/12/card-of-week-december-28.html
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All of my Munetaka Murakami Epoch One cards
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2025 In Review - Calbee
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2025 In Review - Calbee
Calbee's 2025 output was unfortunately much the same as their 2023 and 2024 output. Once again, Calbee issued their "flagship" set in only ...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-in-review-calbee.html
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2025 In Review - BBM
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2025 In Review - BBM
BBM increased their number of baseball (or primarily baseball) sets from 27 in each of the past two years to 32 in 2025. It was the highest...
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Munetaka Murakami of the Chicago White Sox
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