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I'm on the road this weekend so instead of posting about something that happened in this past week, I thought instead I'd highlight a book I recently finished reading - "The Wax Pack - On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife" by Brad Balu...

The NPB All Star games were this past week.  Game One on Tuesday in Tokyo Dome saw the Pacific League defeat the Central League 7-5.  Chusei Mannami of the Fighters was the MVP of game, getting four hits and two RBIs and finishing the game a home run short of a cycle (which I think would have only been the second cycle in All Star history after Atsuya Furuta's in 1992). The ...

I wanted to do a quick post on recent set announcements.  There haven't been a lot and I'm a little worried that I haven't heard about when Calbee's Series Two will be released.  Last year it came out in August but I've yet to see anything about it this year.

- I should mention that the Topps Finest set that was released in the US earlier this month included

The big news this past week is that Samurai Japan has picked their new manager - former Fukuoka Daiei Hawk and Chiba Lotte Marine Tadahito Iguchi.  Iguchi was also the manager of the Marines from 2018 to 2022 and is the first manager of the National Team to have won a World Series title - in fact, he's the first Samurai Japan manager to have ever played in MLB.  He belongs to...

I was browsing Ebay recently, looking to see what was available from the Hawaiian Winter League, when I came across an interesting item.

Of course, before I get into that, I should probably quickly explain what the Hawaiian Winter League was.  It was a four team league in Hawaii that existed from 1993 to 1997.  Games were played each year between October and December. ...