Ohtani, Oh!

Just heard that the Angels won the sweepstakes for the services of Japanese sensation Shohei Ohtani. I'm excited for that, but I'm usually reserved on the excitement of how good he'll be. I'm looking at the signing as more of a wait and see.

One thing I do need to get on though, is trying to find some of his cards.

I imagine they are over-priced right now with all the hype.

Maybe I'll wait.

We'll see.

Wait, What's This?

A friend of mine gave me a little stack of 80's and 90's baseball cards, typical junk wax except for this one card that was sandwiched in the middle.

1992 BBM Masayuki Dobashi #425

Looks like some sort of insert in a 1992 issue of Baseball Magazine?

Whether it was a single or part of a sheet I don't know.

On ebay I saw what I think was a Series 2 box of the same type cards.

Maybe Zippy can shed some light on this.

My First Japanese Angels

A reader named Kenny reached out and asked if I'd be interested in some Sega Japanese cards he had of some Angels.  We corresponded a bit since I didn't know what these cards were, and struck up a trade. Kenny collects Yankees so I sent him a stack and he sent the Japanese cards along with some other Angels cards.

Here's the first Japanese one:

2006 Konami Digital Entertainment

No idea what this is or how it was released.

Looks like a typical game-type card, Pokeman-ish.

Cute Japanese animation on the back.

I'm assuming that's Jarrod Washburn on the mound for the Mariners.

Then there were these cool Sega-Gens,

I don't know anything about these.

2012 Topps Sega Card-Gen

Different.

Nice looking cards.

Kenny was kind enough to write out the translations on the 4 cards above.

If anyone is curious I'll send you a scan.

Anyhow, pretty cool to get some Japanese cards, my first.