Is anyone else collecting these Sportscaster cards?
Japanese Sumo Wrestling Cards and Menko
Monday, July 2, 2018
1977 Sportscaster Card - Sumo Wrestling
These 1977-1979 Sportscaster cards have always been fascinating to me. A bit oversized for sure, but the variety of sports has been very intriguing. They even managed to make a sumo wrestling one, although I am uncertain who the Yokozuna is. Probably Wajima or Mienoumi. What is even more interesting is they printed these cards in both Italy and Japan. I own the Italian version and only recently picked up the Japanese version and am waiting on shipping. There are a good handful of "foreign" sets (cards made outside of Japan) that have sumo wrestlers depicted and I plan on cataloguing all the ones I know about under a new "Foreign" heading in my book.
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I love Sportscasters! When I was a kid, I wanted my parents to subscribe to these so bad. They never did :(
ReplyDeleteThey are very intriguing to me now, but I only have vague memories of them while growing up. A lot of really interesting subjects!
ReplyDeleteI am working on them. Nothing in bulk has come up for sale in a long time.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, I wonder why that is? High demand for them at the moment?
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