2006 Seibu Lions

Alright! I didn’t get home until about 8pm today, went straight to the mail box and there they were in that fun filled bubble envelope. I bought a pack of 2006 BBM (baseball magazine) Seibu Lions Japanese Baseball cards off of eBay last week. Mostly, I was hoping for a Japanese Dice-K card, but I didn’t get one. I still love these cards though with those pizza advertisements on their helmets. They make a fun addition to my collection and you never know, maybe I’ll see one of these guys on this side of the pond one day.

Here’s what I got:

#L006 Hideaki Wakui
#L019 Minori Yamagishi
#L020 Junji Nishikawa [rookie]
#L053 Haruki Kurose
#L065 Takumi Kuriyama
#L097 Takeya Nakamura

Pack Stats:

What it cost me: $ 5.58
Beckett NM/MT worth: N/A
Insert odds I beat: N/A
Most valuable card: N/A

The only player I could find any info on was this guy, Hideaki Wakui. Last year he lead the Pacific League with 17 wins for his Lions at the age of 21.

Hoping for Monday

I was hoping this would come in the mail today. I bought one of these on eBay last week and I’m just waiting for it to show up. I like odd and unusual packs that aren’t your run of the mill cards. This is a 2006 Japanese BBM Seibu Lions foil pack which contains cards from that team only. There are 6 cards in the pack and 7 of the 100 cards in this set are of Dice’K! So.. hopefully Monday I’ll get this sucker.