1934 Japan Tour Uniform Coming to Auction

I usually don't care much about the big auctions where hundreds of high-dollar items change hands from one wealthy white man to another. Do you want to give me an authentic Babe Ruth-worn jersey from the 1927 season? Sure, I'll take it, only to sell it and buy a whole bunch of other stuff that means something to me.

Jimmie Foxx's jersey from the 1934 MLB tour of Japan is up for auction, and seeing how my baseball interests now include both leagues, this story piqued my interest.

I'm not sure about the "scrubs" on the all-star team, but Gehrig's jersey went for over $500,000, and Ruth's hat went for more than $300,000. They say this jersey could go for over $400,000. This is certainly out of my price range!

On the other hand, having at least a replica of this jersey would be really cool. The Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame has an exhibit about the US tours of Japan. The jersey is being sold through SCP Auctions but they don't have an auction catalog posted yet.

A Single Pack of Wafers

Huh? Wafers? In Japan, you can still find lots of non-sport cards and stickers packaged with food. A few sports licenses also exist (Calbee does baseball and soccer most notably). I haven't posted in quite a while so I thought I'd share a snack I bought after lunch today. 

Miku Hatsune is a vocaloid, or digital singer. You can find her stuff everywhere. I've never really heard anything she (it?) has done but I see the character everywhere and I have ended up with a couple goodies. 

The product is made by Lotte, a well known candy (mostly chocolate) company from Korea, which also owns a couple baseball teams (Chiba Lotte Marines here and a team in South Korea) and a chain of fast food burger restaurants (Lotteria). The wafer is decent, but the sticker beneath is what I'm after for this post. 

The fronts are holographic. There's only one sticker per pal with 14 in the set. I got Meiko Sakine. I have no idea who that is. 

The backs describe the character. This is sticker number 8, and there is some kind of game through the QR code. 

I certainly won't bother with a whole set, but it's another cool oddball to add to my collection!

New Release: 2015 BBM Buffaloes Achievement

The last BBM Achievement set to be released features the Kintetsu Buffaloes of 1979, 1980, and 1989. These were years the Buffaloes were league champions.

As with the other sets (Whales, Braves, and Hawks), the design is reminiscent of menko cards from the 1950s and 1960s. The Buffaloes design uses red for the front photo border and on the backs. There are 30 cards in the set.

Again, Printed Autographed Card partial parallels were included with quantities of 45-50 each. There are 22 cards in the set, uniquely numbered from the base set.

And autographs are again the main draw here, with 21 subjects inserted. One player has 35 copies, another has 62, and the remaining have up to 100 copies each. And like the Whales set, it's a bit difficult to find images; there aren't many of these posted out there. These are on-card signatures.

Like most other BBM box sets, 3000 sets were issued. One autographed or foil autograph card was found in each box. Suggested retail price is 4000 yen.