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American fan of Japanese Baseball cards. My blog is
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/
RIP Yoshinori Hirose
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RIP Yoshinori Hirose
Longtime Nankai Hawks star and Hall Of Famer Yoshinori Hirose passed away earlier this month from heart failure at age 89. Hirose originally...
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I got Zippy Zapped again and dove probably way too deep into the background of the guy whose cards Kenny sent me
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Zippy Zapped Once More
On Tuesday of this week, I was pleasantly surprised to discover an envelope in the mail from Kenny - aka Zippy Zappy  - in Japan. It'd been...
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Oh, wow. Four pitchers (including two with NPB experience) combined to throw a no-hitter for the Mid-East Falcons against the Karachi Monarchs today in Baseball United.
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How many NPB cards of Shohei Ohtani listed him as an "outfielder"?
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Ohtanis In The Outfield
2013 Calbee Series Three #AS-22 I saw a question asked both in comment in an old post here on the blog and over at NPB Reddit  about whet...
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Card Of The Week - A couple of the heroes of this weekend's friendly matches between Samurai Japan and Korea
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Card Of The Week November 16
Samurai Japan played two friendly matches with Team Korea over the weekend in Tokyo and things went pretty well for them. They won the game...
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A post about the Japanese players in Baseball United
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Japanese Players In Baseball United
Baseball United , a winter league with four teams representing Middle Eastern and Asian countries - India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the UA...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/japanese-players-in-baseball-united.html
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Repost with an iconic fictional band:
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Six NPB teams have dispatched players to five teams in two Winter Leagues this fall
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Japanese Players Playing In Winter Leagues Abroad
The 2025-26 Caribbean Winter Leagues are already underway and the Australian Baseball League will be starting their season later this week. ...
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Quick roundup of the latest NPB card set announcements from BBM, Epoch and Topps
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Ending 2025 On A (Mostly) High (End) Note
It's been a bit since my last round up of the upcoming card releases so I thought I should get caught up. I suspect that these are the las...
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Card Of The Week - former Hawk and Tiger Robert Suarez led the National League in saves this past season.
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Card Of The Week November 9
I noticed the other day that Robert Suarez of the San Diego Padres had led the National League in saves this past season. Suarez had spent ...
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13 days ago
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
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14 days ago
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Been sitting here feeling melancholy about tomorrow being my last day at the company I’ve worked for for 29 years and starting somewhere new on Monday when
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played Sug Daniels’ “Brand New Day” and I feel so much better now. Thanks, Sug. See you in Arden
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Sug Daniels - Brand New Day (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Sug Daniels
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16 days ago
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A quick post about a new rabbit hole that
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sent me down - Hiroki Kokubo was the sixth player to win a Nippon Series MVP as a player and manage a Nippon Series winning team, so who were the first five?
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Series MVP And Winning Manager
A year ago, I went down a rabbit hole based on something that NPB on Reddit had posted about how Daisuke Miura was the 25th player to win a ...
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19 days ago
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Card Of The Week - The championships of the top three professional baseball leagues all wrapped up last week and here are the MVPs
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Card Of The Week November 2
It was a busy week last week, with the three top professional baseball leagues in the world completing their championships. On Thursday, th...
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20 days ago
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Quick post about the All Star game MVP inserts from the 1994 and 1995 BBM All Star sets
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1994-95 BBM All Star MVP Inserts
BBM issued an annual All Star set in conjunction with NPB's All Star series each year from 1991 to 2012. When I was first learning about Ja...
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21 days ago
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Quick post about a Discord server someone's started for Japanese baseball card collectors
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Discord Server
I was contacted a few weeks ago by someone who had just gotten into collecting Japanese baseball cards and wanted to know if there was any s...
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24 days ago
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More than you ever wanted to know about the 1999 BBM Mr Giants set
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1999 BBM Mr Giants set
I had mentioned a while back that among the cards I got from Ryan in that big box in July were the last cards I needed to complete the 1999 ...
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Card Of The Week - Ukyo Shuto set a record in Game Two of the Nippon Series today
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Card Of The Week October 26
The Tigers and Hawks split the first two games of the 2025 Nippon Series this weekend in Fukuoka, with the Tigers eking out a 2-1 victory in...
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27 days ago
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My annual NPB draft post listing which players already have baseball cards
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30 days ago
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Card Of The Week - Some great performances in each league's Climax Series Final Stage this past week
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about 1 month ago
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Me hearing
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morning show promo on Sunday evening
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about 1 month ago
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Quick post showing all five cards distributed in a mook celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Yomiuri Giants in 2004
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2004 BBM Giants 70th Anniversary Magazine Cards
Now that I have all of them, I wanted to do a quick post showing the cards that were distributed in the mook (magazine/book) that BBM publis...
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about 1 month ago
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RIP Yoshihiro Itoh
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about 1 month ago
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Card Of The Week - been busy lately so just a quick post about a Nagashima rookie card I picked up a few months back
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Card Of The Week October 12
Sorry for the lack of posts lately - I was out of town on vacation all last week and spent most of today getting caught up on things around ...
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about 1 month ago
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Toronto will potentially host either Games 1,2,6&7 of the Series if they play LA and Games 3-5 if they play Milwaukee. I bring this up because I checked the MLB app today to see when the Series starts and saw that it gave the location of all the games as “TBD, United States, USA”. 1/2
about 1 month ago
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Happy Yomiuri Giants Elimination Day to all who celebrate!
about 1 month ago
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Here are the photos I mentioned since I can’t attach them to a DM
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Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate
about 1 month ago
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Last game of the year
about 2 months ago
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Card Of The Week - With Shingo Takatsu and Daisuke Miura stepping down, there’s a new manager who got the longest tenure in NPB
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Card Of The Week October 5
Shingo Takatsu and Daisuke Miura have both announced in the past couple weeks that they'd be stepping down as manager of the Swallows and Ba...
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about 2 months ago
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Roundup of some KBO sets I missed (H/T
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) and the latest NPB set announcements
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KBO Catchup and End Of The Year Releases
It's only been a little over two weeks since I last did a round up of newly announced releases but Dan Skrezyna - aka Korean Cardboard - c...
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about 2 months ago
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Zippy-Zapped yet again
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Another Zippy Zappy-ing
Earlier this week, I finally got around to writing about some cards that Kenny (Zippy Zappy) had sent me a month or so ago . He left a comm...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/another-zippy-zappy-ing.html
about 2 months ago
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Masashiro Tanaka finally got his 200th career win between NPB and MLB yesterday
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about 2 months ago
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Finally getting around to doing the final post on "modern" collectible card game NPB cards
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about 2 months ago
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Quick roundup of the latest cards I got from Kenny - aka Zippy Zappy
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about 2 months ago
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Card Of The Week - Yuto Kimura's complete game shutout last week gives me an opportunity to illustrate the differences in the rookie cards in the 2024 flagship NPB sets
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about 2 months ago
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Post a TV theme you like
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about 2 months ago
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A roundup of some cards my friend Jason has sent me recently. They're mostly BBM's "secret" version cards - short-printed photo variant parallels.
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about 2 months ago
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RIP Yukihiko Machida
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RIP Yukihiko Machida
This past Monday former Kokutetsu Swallows slugger Yukihiko Machida passed away from bile duct cancer at age 91. Machida had signed with th...
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about 2 months ago
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It's the end of the 2025 season so it's time for a roundup of the 2024 BBM team sets
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2024 BBM Team Sets
It's the last week of the 2025 regular NPB season so, of course, it's time for a post about the 2024  BBM team sets. For over twenty years ...
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about 2 months ago
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In those proud shoes coming on up the alley In those proud shoes walks all over the sky Then he tipped his hat just like Don Quixote And said don't let the rapture pass you by
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Soap Box Preacher
YouTube video by Robbie Robertson - Topic
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2 months ago
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Another surprise form
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- today’s headliner Courtney Barnett has been joined onstage by Kurt Vile
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Holy crap,
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had a surprise guest at the Xponential Music Festival - Jade Bird!
2 months ago
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Card of the Week: The Buffaloes-Lions game on Thursday had a couple interesting events
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Card Of The Week September 21
Shunpeita Yamashita of the Buffaloes had a really good first couple innings against the Lions on Thursday evening in Tokorozawa. He struck ...
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2 months ago
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Holy crap, what a finale to the first night of
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Xpontential Music Festival! War brought out members of both the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and SNACKTIME to do “Low Rider”
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Got a boatload of Baystars fan club/team-issued cards recently
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2 months ago
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Round up of the latest upcoming NPB set announcements from BBM, Epoch and Topps
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Share your favorite covers as a timeline cleanse This is so much fun
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