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NPB Card Guy
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American fan of Japanese Baseball cards. My blog is https://japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 8h
@heavyjstudios.bsky.social Here are the photos I mentioned since I can’t attach them to a DM
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 1d
Entire career except the seven games he spent with the Hanshin Tigers in 1997
1997 BBM card of Mike Greenwell
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 1d
Yakult Atoms legend
2013 BBM Deep Impact card of Joe Pepitone
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 1d
1997 BBM card of Mike Greenwell
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 2d
Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 4d
Last game of the year
Peoria Javelinas @ Scottsdale Scorpions
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 5d
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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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 7d
Lives on as a label for Steady Eddie beer from Union Brewery in Baltimore
Steady Eddie beer from Union Brewery in Baltimore
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 7d
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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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 8d
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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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 9d
Masashiro Tanaka finally got his 200th career win between NPB and MLB yesterday japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/masa...
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
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 10d
Finally getting around to doing the final post on "modern" collectible card game NPB cards japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-br...
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
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 10d
2016 Bandai Owners League card of Seiya Suzuki
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 11d
Damn, Dave Mathews is older than I thought
Closeup of portion of the concert ad that says that Dave Mathews Big Band appears every Monday night to play "Big Band Jazz"
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 11d
Had an amazing 11 year career with the Lotte Orions in Japan. He has the highest career batting average in NPB history
2013 BBM Professional Baseball 80th Anniversary - Batters Edition card of Leron Lee 1979 Yamakatsu card of Leron Lee
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 11d
Quick roundup of the latest cards I got from Kenny - aka Zippy Zappy japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...
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
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 12d
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...
2024 Topps NPB card of Yuto Kimura 2024 Epoch NPB card of Yuto Kimura 2024 BBM 1st Version card of Yuto Kimura
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 13d
Post a TV theme you like youtu.be/VV_exixJm54?...
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 13d
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...
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
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 13d
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
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 14d
RIP Yukihiko Machida japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/09/rip-...
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...
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 14d
Looks like Steve Landesburg
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 14d
How about a catcher-manager?
2014 BBM 1st Version card of Motonobu Tanishige
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 15d
Japanese baseball cards don’t specify infield positions. All of them are like this for infielders
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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 15d
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