NPB Card Guy

Mavis Staples is a god damn national treasure

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...

Retirement post for Oh Seung-hwan japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/oh-s...

I think that was from the 80’s

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 ...

The Nittaku Home Flyers only existed for about ten months but left a uniform legacy that everyone seems to remember japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Five authors, at least five books:

Tim Powers
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social
Rob Fitts @banzaibaberuth.bsky.social
Rob Neyer @robneyer.bsky.social
Robert J Sawyer

Or not as many of the corner houses in my neighborhood will attest

I really miss the Japanese card companies and card shops that are only on the old site but I feel I stayed over there too long as it is.

Yeah, I was a little disappointed with it too

2003 BBM Fighters card of Isamu Kida

2003 BBM Fighters card of Yutaka Enatsu

2003 BBM Fighters card of Yukio Tanaka

Card Of The Week - Some Shukan Baseball cover baseball cards from the 2003 BBM Fighters set japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/card...

2025 BBM 35th Anniversary/Shukan Baseball 4000th Issue card of Katsuya Nomura

2025 BBM 35th Anniversary/Shukan Baseball 4000th Issue card of Shota Morishita

2025 BBM 35th Anniversary/Shukan Baseball 4000th Issue card of Tetsuto Yamada

2025 BBM 35th Anniversary/Shukan Baseball 4000th Issue card of Rui Muneyama

Some comments on the new BBM "35th Anniversary + Shukan Baseball 4000th Issue" set japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/2025...

Oh, that started a few days ago

Finished his career in Japan with the Yokohama Taiyo Whales in 1981

It’s scary that I recognized Kaptain Kool & The Kongs on the TV screen

All good - I found it!

Thanks! I had to scroll back - I had missed the Murakami

Thanks!

2025 Topps Stadium Club NPB card of Takahisa Hayakawa

New? The NPB version came out last September

Thanks!

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…

Wrote a post on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics Baseball "event" for the SABR Asian Baseball Research Committee's blog sabrasianbaseball.com/2026/02/20/b...

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...

My latest Zippy Zappy-ing japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/zipp...

Thought I heard Okamoto was having visa issues so he might not be in camp yet

Was going to ask about Imai, Okamoto and Murakami

Born in the town I went to high school in and finished his career as a 1b-of with the Chunichi Dragons in 1962. Unfortunately, I have no Japanese baseball cards of him as they’re rare and very expensive

That’s close to what one of my old co-workers used to say - there’s no such thing as the cloud, there’s just someone else’s computer

2013 BBM Legendary Foreigners card of George Altman

NLB to MLB to NPB

I take it you’re beginning to feel the heat…

Only guy to lose three games in a World Series without taking a bribe to do it

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...

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 japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/2017...

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...

Card Of The Week - the 1993 BBM Hideki Matsui and its "official" reprints japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2026/02/card...

2007 BBM card of Joe Valentine

2011 BBM Marines 20th Anniversary autographed card of Bobby Valentine