NPB Card Guy
@npbcardguy.bsky.social
American fan of Japanese Baseball cards. My blog is https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/
Quick roundup of the latest NPB card set announcements from BBM, Epoch and Topps japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/endi...
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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November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Quick roundup of the latest NPB card set announcements from BBM, Epoch and Topps japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/endi...
Card Of The Week - former Hawk and Tiger Robert Suarez led the National League in saves this past season. japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/card...
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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November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Card Of The Week - former Hawk and Tiger Robert Suarez led the National League in saves this past season. japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/card...
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
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 @wxpnfm.bsky.social played Sug Daniels’ “Brand New Day” and I feel so much better now. Thanks, Sug. See you in Arden youtu.be/xJoBmocD5vg?...
Sug Daniels - Brand New Day (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Sug Daniels
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November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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 @wxpnfm.bsky.social played Sug Daniels’ “Brand New Day” and I feel so much better now. Thanks, Sug. See you in Arden youtu.be/xJoBmocD5vg?...
A quick post about a new rabbit hole that @npb-reddit.bsky.social 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? japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/seri...
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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November 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
A quick post about a new rabbit hole that @npb-reddit.bsky.social 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? japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/seri...
Card Of The Week - The championships of the top three professional baseball leagues all wrapped up last week and here are the MVPs japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/card...
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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November 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Card Of The Week - The championships of the top three professional baseball leagues all wrapped up last week and here are the MVPs japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/card...
Quick post about the All Star game MVP inserts from the 1994 and 1995 BBM All Star sets japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/1994...
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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November 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Quick post about the All Star game MVP inserts from the 1994 and 1995 BBM All Star sets japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/11/1994...
Quick post about a Discord server someone's started for Japanese baseball card collectors japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/disc...
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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October 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Quick post about a Discord server someone's started for Japanese baseball card collectors japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/disc...
More than you ever wanted to know about the 1999 BBM Mr Giants set japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/1999...
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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October 28, 2025 at 2:43 AM
More than you ever wanted to know about the 1999 BBM Mr Giants set japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/1999...
Card Of The Week - Ukyo Shuto set a record in Game Two of the Nippon Series today japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/card...
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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October 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Card Of The Week - Ukyo Shuto set a record in Game Two of the Nippon Series today japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/card...
My annual NPB draft post listing which players already have baseball cards japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
October 24, 2025 at 2:34 AM
My annual NPB draft post listing which players already have baseball cards japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/2025...
Card Of The Week - Some great performances in each league's Climax Series Final Stage this past week japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/card...
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Card Of The Week - Some great performances in each league's Climax Series Final Stage this past week japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/card...
Me hearing @kristenkurtis.bsky.social morning show promo on Sunday evening
October 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Me hearing @kristenkurtis.bsky.social morning show promo on Sunday evening
Quick post showing all five cards distributed in a mook celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Yomiuri Giants in 2004 japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/2004...
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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October 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Quick post showing all five cards distributed in a mook celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the Yomiuri Giants in 2004 japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/2004...
RIP Yoshihiro Itoh japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/rip-...
October 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
RIP Yoshihiro Itoh japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/rip-...
Card Of The Week - been busy lately so just a quick post about a Nagashima rookie card I picked up a few months back japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/card...
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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October 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Card Of The Week - been busy lately so just a quick post about a Nagashima rookie card I picked up a few months back japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/card...
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
October 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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
Happy Yomiuri Giants Elimination Day to all who celebrate!
October 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Happy Yomiuri Giants Elimination Day to all who celebrate!
@heavyjstudios.bsky.social Here are the photos I mentioned since I can’t attach them to a DM
October 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
@heavyjstudios.bsky.social Here are the photos I mentioned since I can’t attach them to a DM
Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate
October 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate
Last game of the year
October 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Last game of the year
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...
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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October 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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...
Roundup of some KBO sets I missed (H/T @koreancardboard.bsky.social) and the latest NPB set announcements japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/kbo-...
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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October 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Roundup of some KBO sets I missed (H/T @koreancardboard.bsky.social) and the latest NPB set announcements japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/kbo-...
Zippy-Zapped yet again japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/anot...
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...
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October 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Zippy-Zapped yet again japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/anot...
Masashiro Tanaka finally got his 200th career win between NPB and MLB yesterday japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/masa...
October 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Masashiro Tanaka finally got his 200th career win between NPB and MLB yesterday japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/masa...