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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 44m

My father was with me and had never heard of a player doing this before. I got Byington to autograph a baseball for him a few years later at an Atlantic League game. I made sure to tell him I had been at the game

NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 46m

Don’t remember if they promoted it. It was the last game of the first half of the season in 1996. I remember thinking it was odd he was announced as the starting pitcher because I thought he was a position player and then it dawned on me what was happening

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 2h

Jimmie Byington. Saw him do it for the Wilmington Blue Rocks in 1996. Second person is Hiroshi Takahashi, first player to do it in NPB

2010 BBM Memory Makers card of Hiroshi Takahashi

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 1d

Yomiuri Giants legend. (Spent two months of 2021 in Japan before leaving because his family was unable to join him overseas)

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure these are amazing but I found them after a quick look on the blog

1978 Calbee card showing catcher Tatsuhiko Kimata of the Dragons sliding into catcher Akihiro Yano of the Swallows

1978 Calbee card of Hisaaki Fukushima with a Hal Breeden cameo

1979 Calbee card showing the penultimate play of the 1979 Nippon Series when Shigeru Ishiwata of the Buffaloes attempted a suicide squeeze bunt with a runner in third. He missed the pitch and Carp catcher Shiro Mizunuma tagged out tge base runner. Ishiwata then struck out to end the game and give the Carp their first championship

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 2d

As I always say, I'll be perfectly happy to use the corporate name for a stadium as soon as I get paid by them to do it.

NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 2d

Every time you post something about Tokyo Stadium, I immediately think “But that ballpark’s been gone for 50 years!” The baseball stadium by that name was the home of the Daimai/Tokyo/Lotte Orions from 1962 to 1971.

2021 BBM Marins History 1950-2021 card depicting Tokyo Stadium

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 2d

People are strange

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Yoshihiro Itoh japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com/2025/10/rip-...

2008 BBM Rookie Edition card of Yoshihiro Itoh

2010 BBM Nippon Series card of Yoshihiro Itoh

2011 BBM 2nd Version card of Yoshihiro Itoh

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 3d

Fukuoka Daiei Hawks legend

1995 BBM Late Series card of Kevin Mitchell

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 3d

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 ...

japanesebaseballcards.blogspot.com

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 3d

Does MLB not know what country Toronto is in? 2/2

NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 3d

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

Screen shot of the MLB app saying game one of the World Series will take place in the US

Screen shot of the MLB app saying game three of the World Series will take place in the US

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Yomiuri Giants Elimination Day to all who celebrate!

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 5d

@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 · 6d

Entire career except the seven games he spent with the Hanshin Tigers in 1997

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 6d

Yakult Atoms legend

2013 BBM Deep Impact card of Joe Pepitone

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 6d

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 9d

Last game of the year

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NPB Card Guy @npbcardguy.bsky.social · 11d

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...