NPB Card Guy

@heavyjstudios.bsky.social Here are the photos I mentioned since I can’t attach them to a DM

1997 BBM card of Mike Greenwell

Entire career except the seven games he spent with the Hanshin Tigers in 1997

2013 BBM Deep Impact card of Joe Pepitone

Yakult Atoms legend

1997 BBM card of Mike Greenwell

Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate

Peoria Javelinas @ Scottsdale Scorpions

Last game of the year

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...

Card Of The Week - With Shingo Takatsu and Daisuke Miura stepping down, there’s a new manager who got the longest tenure in NPB japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/card...

Steady Eddie beer from Union Brewery in Baltimore

Lives on as a label for Steady Eddie beer from Union Brewery in Baltimore

Roundup of some KBO sets I missed (H/T @koreancardboard.bsky.social) and the latest NPB set announcements japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/kbo-...

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...

Zippy-Zapped yet again japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/anot...

2007 BBM SCM card of Masahiro Tanaka

2023 Topps Tribute WBC Edition card of Masahiro Tanaka

2023 Topps NPB card of Masahiro Tanaka

2024 Bandai Pro Baseball Deforme card of Masahiro Tanaka

Masashiro Tanaka finally got his 200th career win between NPB and MLB yesterday japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/masa...

2000 Power League Dream Stadium card of Hiroki Kuroda

2014 Bandai Owners League 01 card of Shohei Ohtani

2024 Bushiroad DreamOrder Pacific League Booster Pack Vol. 2 card of Takeya Nakamura

Finally getting around to doing the final post on "modern" collectible card game NPB cards japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-br...

2016 Bandai Owners League card of Seiya Suzuki

Closeup of portion of the concert ad that says that Dave Mathews Big Band appears every Monday night to play "Big Band Jazz"

Damn, Dave Mathews is older than I thought

2013 BBM Professional Baseball 80th Anniversary - Batters Edition card of Leron Lee

1979 Yamakatsu card of Leron Lee

Had an amazing 11 year career with the Lotte Orions in Japan. He has the highest career batting average in NPB history

2025 Calbee Series Two card of Taisei Ota

2018 Epoch One card of Raidel Martinez

2014 Bandai Owners League 04 card of Tetsuharu Kawakami

2007 Konami Baseball Heroes Power Up Edition card of Kyuji Fujikawa

Quick roundup of the latest cards I got from Kenny - aka Zippy Zappy japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...

2024 Topps NPB card of Yuto Kimura

2024 Epoch NPB card of Yuto Kimura

2024 BBM 1st Version card of Yuto Kimura

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 japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/card...

Post a TV theme you like youtu.be/VV_exixJm54?...

2022 BBM Fusion card of Masato Morishita

2023 BBM 1st Version card of Yuhei Nakamura

2020 BBM 2nd Version card of Yuki Nishi

2021 BBM 2nd Version card of Akira Neo

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. japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/secr...

Same. Had to go to New Mexico last year and had “Point me…in the direction of Albuquerque!” running through my head the whole time, thanks to the albums my sisters played over and over 50+ years ago

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...

RIP Yukihiko Machida japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/rip-...

Looks like Steve Landesburg

2014 BBM 1st Version card of Motonobu Tanishige

How about a catcher-manager?

Japanese baseball cards don’t specify infield positions. All of them are like this for infielders

Both Matt and his father Marty played in Japan - Matt with the Hanshin Tigers from 1987-90 and Marty with the Nankai Hawks in 1968

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 ...

It's the end of the 2025 season so it's time for a roundup of the 2024 BBM team sets japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/2024...

2005 BBM Giants card of Shigeo Nagashima

The late Shigeo Nagashima's position of "Lifetime Honorary Manager" or "LHM" of the Yomiuri Giants was reflected on this card

YouTube video by Robbie Robertson - Topic Soap Box Preacher

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

youtu.be/8CzBZ7_BiZ0?...

Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile

Another surprise form @wxpnfm.bsky.social - today’s headliner Courtney Barnett has been joined onstage by Kurt Vile

Jade Bird at the Xponential Music Festival

Holy crap, @wxpnfm.bsky.social had a surprise guest at the Xponential Music Festival - Jade Bird!