Last Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Queens defeated the San Francisco Firebells to wrap up the inaugural championship of the Women's Pro Bas...

I've been needing to write a round up of recently announce sets for a few weeks now but I kept either being to busy to write it or wanted to...

Earlier this week, I received the latest envelope full of baseball cards sent from Kenny (aka Zippy Zappy) in Japan.  Most of the cards in ...

Retired pitcher Brian Wolfe tragically passed away last week at age 45 after fighting leukemia.  Wolfe spent parts of nine seasons in NPB wi...

I had always been under the impression that the late Isao Harimoto was the only survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing that ever played pr...

Another Japanese baseball legend has died.  Isao Harimoto, NPB's career hits leader with 3085, passed away on the Wednesday of last week at ...

The Hawks were leading Nippon-Ham 4-1 going into the bottom of the eighth inning last Tuesday night in Fukuoka when the wheels fell off for ...

On Thursday of this week, Raidel Martinez of the Yomiuri Giants became the second pitcher this season to reach the 250 career saves mark.  M...

Harimoto, who finished his career with 3,085 hits and is the only player in NPB history to reach 3,000, died at a Tokyo hospital on Wednesday.

I mentioned in my post the other day about the new Topps Chrome Samurai Japan set that I had researched how many players on Japan's six WBC...

On Friday night at Jingu Stadium, Hiroki Fukunaga of the Chunichi Dragons led off the game against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows with a home run...

I feel like there's been a dearth of World Baseball Classic cards from Topps this year so I was intrigued when I heard that Topps was going ...

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Last Thursday saw the 2026 debut of another one of my favorite players, 46 year old Swallows pitcher Masanori Ishikawa.  To say it didn't go...

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Last week when I did my memorial post for Toshio Kanbe , I included a card that I thought was probably Kanbe from what I described as a set ...

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My favorite NPB player is slugger Takeya Nakamura of the Saitama Seibu Lions.  I had been tracking him as the NPB player most likely to reac...

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Former Kintetsu Buffaloes and Yakult Swallows pitcher Toshio Kanbe passed away at age 83 about a week ago.  Kanbe's path to professional bas...

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Former baseball player Baek In-chun passed away late last week at the age of 82 in Cheonan, South Korea .  Baek had a 20 year career in NPB ...

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I'm a little late getting to this since I was out of town for a bit but on August 4th, Naoya Masuda of the Chiba Lotte Marines became the la...

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Livan Moinelo of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks made his first start of the 2026 season last Tuesday.  The reigning 2025 Pacific League MVP had ...

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I got an email a few weeks back from Kenny (aka Zippy Zappy)  informing me that there were three(!) envelopes containing cards that were wor...

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