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The Intercity Tournament, the annual championship for the corporate/industrial leagues was held at the Tokyo Dome in late August and early September.  I'm not positive but I think that's when the Japan Adult Baseball Association (JABA) rolled out their 2026 card set.
This is the sixth year JABA has released a card set and, as usual, details about it are somewhat hard to com...

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I wanted to do a quick post to mark the passing of former Hankyu Braves pitcher Shoji Matsumoto.  He passed away on October 8th at age 67 but it wasn't announced by the Orix Buffaloes (Hankyu's successor) until the 14th.

As is the case with many Japanese baseball players, Matsumoto became well known because of his performance in the National High School Baseball Champio...


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The Final Stage of the Climax Series in each league wrapped up in the past few days.  On Friday, the Hawks completed their three game sweep of the Fighters (they only needed three games since, because they finished in first place in the regular season, they started the Series with a one game advantage).  On Saturday, the Baystars, the third place finisher in the regular seaso...


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I recently came across an article on SI.com's Collectibles web page entitled "The Top 4 Cards of Teruaki Sato, the Next NPB Superstar" and, I have to say, I was not impressed with it.  According to it, the top card of Sat...

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In March of 1975, the Yomuri Giants traveled to Vero Beach, Florida, as the spring training guests of the Los Angeles Dodgers.  It would neither be the first nor the last time the Dodgers would host the Giants for spring training - they had done so in 1961, 1967, 1971 and would do so again in 1981.  What stands out about 1975 is that Calbee devoted a number of cards in that y...


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