Up first is the 1995 pack. Come on Ichiro!!!! It says there are 10 cards inside and cost 200円.
#638 - Tomohiro Kuroki
#550 - Shinichiro Minami
#461 - Shinjiro Hiyama
#382 - Takayuki Murakami
#349 - Kazuhiko Ishimine
#272 - Masashi Arikura
#212 - Katsuhiko Yamada
#176 - Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi (Gold Facsimile Auto)
#152 - Hiroo Ishii
#92 - Hiroyuki Maehara
Alright, 1994 here we go. Looks like Matsui and Ichiro are the ones to get here. Engel also states that cards #1-42 are scarce. 10 cards in this pack as well No whammies!
Okay, another so-so pack. Card #553 looks to be my best card "Power Aplenty" (Bryant and Winters)
#553 - "Power Aplenty" Bryant and Winters
#533 - Shintaro Yoshitake
#505 - Jun Yamada
#477 - Yusuke Torigoe
#449 - Chihiro Hamana
#421 - Masao Yanada
#393 - Yoshinori Ueda
#365 - Norio Tanabe
#337 - Kiyoyuki Nagashima
#309 - Yasuaki Taihoh
Next up. 1993. 200円 for 10 cards. Hoping for an Ichiro, Matsui or Nomo.
#498 - Checklist
#473 - "Combination Card" Furuta and Okabayashi
#448 - Takahiro Ikeyama
#423 - Hideki Matsui
#398 - Akihito Kondoh
#373 - Tadaharu Sakai
#348 - Norihiro Akimura
#323 - Terumitsu Kumano
#298 - Kenji Tomashino
#273 - Shinichi Igarashi
Let's roll with 1992 Series 1. 200円 for 10 glorious cards. I'd love to pull a Nomo here.
#219 - Yoshihiko Takahashi
#182 - Kenji Horie
#157 - Kenji Furukubo
#132 - Satoshi Nakajima
#107 - Hiroshima Municipal Stadium
#82 - Hiroshi Yagi
#57 - Takahiro Ikeyama
#44 - Hiroaki Hirota
#7 - Tomio Watanabe
1992 Series 2. Hopefully I get at least a semi-star!
#472 - Yasuo Nagaike
#447 - Hiroshi Motohigashi
#422 - Kohji Ohtsuka
#379 - Atsunori Itoh
#372 - Shinichi Igarashi
#347 - Norihito Yamashita
#322 - Shinji Sasaoka
#297 - Yoichi Okabayashi
#272 - Masahiro Takahashi
Alright, last pack. 1991....Inaugural year for BBM baseball cards. Let's see what we get...would love a Nomo!
#384 - Tetsuya Iida
#344 - Shinichi Murakami
#304 - Tom O'Malley
#264 - Koji Maeda
#223 - Sadaharu Oh
#183 - Shinichi Igarashi
#143 - Koji Takagi
#103 - Kiyoki Nakanishi
#63 - Johnny Ray
#24 - Jim Paciorek
Well that was definitely fun and some great looking cards these early BBM releases are! A great way to spend an hour on a Saturday.
Congratulations on finding a Matsui and Oh! I recently picked up a bunch of packs of 1991 BBM, but ripped them all in hopes of finishing off my 1991 BBM set.
ReplyDeleteDo you need any of the ones from my pack? I have an unopened box and a complete set (looks like the American market version) I bought for $10 in a discount bin at a card shop. Would love to open the packs and pull a Nomo, but am too afraid to.
ReplyDeleteNo... I'm actually finished the set with the final pack. I was so bummed, because I was hoping I had a few packs leftover so I could add them with the two sets I made. If I were you, I'd keep that unopened box sealed. There are several (5 or 6) Nomos in the set and I'm sure they're only a few bucks each. Picking up the complete set for $10 was a great find. Congratulations!
DeleteThere's some guys of note in there. Atsuya Furuta is a Hall Of Famer. Shinji Sasaoka , Shinjiro Hiyama and Takahiro Ikeyama were all "minor stars". Norio Tanabe is the current manager of the Lions while Tomio Watanabe managed them a few years ago. You've also got Tomohiro "Johnny" Kuroki's rookie card - he was a very popular pitcher for the Marines.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info on the additional cards. They are all back in their packages so I can open them up in 20 years again! It seems boxes from these early BBM sets are really hard to come by.
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