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American fan of Japanese Baseball cards. My blog is
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/
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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YouTube video by Robbie Robertson - Topic
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about 12 hours 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!
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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 ...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/card-of-week-september-21.html?m=0
2 days 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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4 days ago
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Round up of the latest upcoming NPB set announcements from BBM, Epoch and Topps
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7 days ago
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Share your favorite covers as a timeline cleanse This is so much fun
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8 days ago
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Card Of The Week - the Hanshin Tigers are the 2025 Central League champs with a rookie manager at the helm
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Card Of The Week September 14
I'm a little late in reporting this but a week ago on September 7th, the Hanshin Tigers clinched the Central League pennant. It was the ear...
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9 days ago
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The 2025 JABA set was released at this year's Intercity Baseball Tournament
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2025 JABA Cards
The 96th Intercity Baseball Tournament, which is basically the corporate league championship, was held at Tokyo Dome from August 28th until ...
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10 days ago
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RIP Jim Marshall and Brian Dayett
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13 days ago
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Card(s) Of The Week - each of the Orioles-Dodgers games this weekend had a former Samurai Japan pitcher as one of the starters
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15 days ago
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Ohtani’s day, not including his last plate appearance in which he walked again. Five plate appearances without involving the Orioles defense
16 days ago
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Ohtani’s second home run of the game
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16 days ago
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The Fighters top draft pick from 2011 pitching to their top draft pick from 2012. Spoiler alert - the 2012 one won
16 days ago
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RIP Davey Johnson
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17 days ago
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I opened a box of 2001 DigiCube Dragons cards
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2001 DigiCube Dragons Nine Box Break
In 2000 and 2001, an outfit called DigiCube issued sets for the Chunichi Dragons. These sets were somewhat mysterious to me as they were no...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/2001-digicube-dragons-nine-box-break.html
18 days ago
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Quick post about some oddball stickers that are probably from the 1970's
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70's Stickers?
I keep mentioning that there were things that Ryan included in the box he sent me back in July that I didn't expect. One of those things w...
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19 days ago
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Quick post about a striking Epoch One card that was issued last week
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2025 Takayuki Kishi Epoch One Card
I don't usually post about cards that I don't actually own but I saw this Epoch One card for Takayuki Kishi that I liked so much, I had to w...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/2025-takayuki-kishi-epoch-one-card.html
22 days ago
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Card(s) Of The Week - Munetaka Murakami's on a tear and a guy from an independent team won the Fresh All Star game's MVP award last month
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23 days ago
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Bandai's Pro Baseball Deforme cards are a lot of fun although I'm not real impressed with the food they were distributed with
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24 days ago
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A bunch of 2024 Epoch One cards
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26 days ago
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Card Of The Week - Koki Yamaguchi of the Marines had a couple good nights against the Eagles last week
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Card Of The Week August 24
Koki Yamaguchi of the Marines had a couple good nights last week against the Eagles. On Wednesday night, he hit a three run home run in the...
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30 days ago
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Quick post about some Epoch One promo cards
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about 1 month ago
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Congratulations to Okinawa Shogaku on winning their first ever Koshien tournament
about 1 month ago
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A post about some corporate/industrial league cards I got
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about 1 month ago
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Some comments about some 2022 TIC Carp Japan Retired Foreign Player Association (JRFPA) "mini-shikishi" cards
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about 1 month ago
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Quick post about a couple "color variation" cards in BBM team sets
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about 1 month ago
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Card Of The Week - Hanshin Tigers reliever (and former Kochi Fighting Dog) set an NPB record today with his 40th consecutive scoreless appearance
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Card Of The Week August 17
Hanshin Tigers relief pitcher Daichi Ishii entered today's game in the eighth inning against the Giants and didn't give up a run. It was Is...
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about 1 month ago
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Quick post about some Hawks team issued cards
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about 1 month ago
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Quick post about some cards of OB Swallows that the team gave away last year as part of the celebration of the 55th Anniversary of Yakult buying them
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Swallows OB Cards
I've mentioned before that there's usually some surprises in the boxes that Ryan sends me and this latest one was no exception. I found th...
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about 1 month ago
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Played three years in Japan and one year in Mexico after he “retired”. I don’t think that word means what you think it does
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about 1 month ago
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Bunch of cards from the big box from my friend Ryan - some of which completed sets and others that I just wanted
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about 1 month ago
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RIP Jitsuo Mizutani
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RIP Jitsuo Mizutani
Former Hiroshima Toyo Carp and Hankyu Brave Jitsuo Mizutani has passed away from heart failure in Nishinomiya after several months of poor h...
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about 1 month ago
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Some magazine cards I got in the big box from my friend Ryan
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about 1 month ago
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Card Of The Week - Masanori Ishikawa and Masahiro Tanaka both got hits Thursday night, three days after the Central League announced they were adopting the DH in 2027
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Card Of The Week August 10
Masanori Ishikawa started Thursday night's Swallows game against the Giants. He got a hit that night which was his first hit this season. ...
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about 1 month ago
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Some comments about the 2024 Epoch Career Achievements Japan National Team set
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about 1 month ago
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Beautiful evening to be sitting in a park in Bryn Mawr, listening to Darlingside
about 2 months ago
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Great “First Thursday” concert at the Canton Waterfront in Baltimore tonight. Sponsored by WTMD, it featured Plant Dad, Kashus Culpeper and Oh He Dead
about 2 months ago
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Topps Now Samurai Japan card for the 2024 Premier 12
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about 2 months ago
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I don’t know why, but it really bugs me that this account uses “retired” when it means “made last MLB appearance”. After 2010, Kaz Matsui returned to Japan and played for another eight years
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about 2 months ago
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My wife got a Steady Eddie IPA from Union Brewing Company in Baltimore that has a very 1985 Topps-ish label
about 2 months ago
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Out at the Aberdeen Ironbirds game for probably the last time while they’re an affliated team
about 2 months ago
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reposted by
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Jason Coskrey
about 2 months ago
Central League votes to adopt designated hitter rule from 2027
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Central League votes to adopt designated hitter rule from 2027
The change means NPB’s two leagues will operate under the same set of rules for the first time since the Pacific League adopted the designated hitter in 1975.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/08/05/baseball/japanese-baseball/central-league-designated-hitter/
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2024 Topps Now Samurai Japan "Global Games" team set
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about 2 months ago
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Getting caught up on the latest set announcements
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More New Releases
Maybe it was because we had a lot going on but I felt like last month lasted a long time. So I was surprised that it had only been a little...
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about 2 months ago
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Card Of The Week - the all time hits leader in the KBO got traded last week
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Card Of The Week August 3
There was a huge trade in Korea last week as the NC Dinos sent the KBO's all time hit leader Son Ah-seop to the Hanwha Eagles for a third ...
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about 2 months ago
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RIP former Kintetsu Buffalo(es) and Nankai Hawks player Jack Bloomfield
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RIP Jack Bloomfield
Long time scout and former Kintetsu Buffalo and Nankai Hawk Jack Bloomfield passed away this past week at an age of at least 92 *. Bloomfie...
https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/08/rip-jack-bloomfield.html
about 2 months ago
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A post about the 2022 Epoch One Dragons Signature set
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about 2 months ago
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Quick post about a couple NPB Topps Now cards from last year
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about 2 months ago
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