Cards from overseas

Ryan over at “This Card is Cool” and “Cardboard Zoo” who is currently working in Japan decided to share his love for Japanese baseball cards with some of those in the states.  I’ve seen other bloggers post their packages and since I’m a little slow, here is mine.

These are pretty cool and they do a good job with everything.  I like the looks and backgrounds.  I guess I always though cards from over there would be cheap looking and that is so not the case.  Good cardboard stock and design as well.  So I’m definitely glad he sent these.

For the record the top row is 2005, 2000 and then a stack of 2012 Calbee.  And the bottom cards are 2008-2010 Baseball Magazine

I guess I should have shown a standard card besides these so you could see they are a little smaller than most but not by much.  With the stuff listed at the bottom, I wonder if they aren’t game pieces of some kind.  Like the MLB Showdown cards were.  And they are all from Konami, I’m not big into video games but I want to say they make games.  The ones above are from 2007-2009.

I really like these and think it’s a great idea for set.  Olympic posters.  The top left one seems to be a Worlds Fair poster so I’m not sure if it comes from the same set.  The scan doesn’t justify the one on the bottom right.  It’s very shiny and reflective.  These were really cool.

And I really liked this card, does anyone recognize the player?  Tadahito Iguchi was the Chicago White Sox 2nd baseman in their championship year of 2005  This card is a 2009 so he didn’t last long in the MLB but he was instrumental to that championship and the Sox don’t win it all without the 1-2 punch of Scott Podsednik and Iguchi.

Thanks Ryan for the cards, they were very educational and fun to go through.

Trade with Ryan

It seems that I only like to take the time to scan cards on the weekend which is why all my trade posts tend to come out then.  Ryan of “This Card is Cool” and the new “Cardboard Zoo” also requested some of my trade bait cards and after an email or two, he sent me these.

Love the two 1980’s Topps and the 1981 Fleer.  And the 1984 Donruss as far as that goes.  Not a big fan of the 1987 Topps (but really, who is) but I did use to have a crap load of these and had only 1 other so they are still welcome in this household.  I’ve never seen the yellow Toys “R” Us, I used to have the black set, don’t remember the year of it but I assume the yellow ones are just a different year.

I like the looks of the Leaf Limited on top, and the Topps Flashback Friday of Jermaine Dye was a new insert set for me, hadn’t seen those before.  Mark Buehrle’s Perfect game savior, DeWayne Wise in Gold.  Plus a couple of cool Frank Thomas cards.

A couple Topps Attak and four Gypsy Queens that I didn’t have.

And a couple of Tom Seaver’s.  I had forgotten about the American Pie cards.  All these cards are a welcome addition to my PC.  Big thanks to Ryan, be sure to check out his blog “This Card is Cool” and his very informative “Cardboard Zoo”.  Thanks again, Ryan!