2008 Yomiuri Giants Players Day Cards

I was poking around Akihabara recently and came across a couple baseball cards from a Yomiuri Giants giveaway from 2008. I've seen these before and I have one in my collection already, but they're very attractive and these two were inexpensive.

 The cards come in a large holder with a photo of the player.

Inside is a facsimile signature and the card itself, similar to the way collectible phone cards are sold here.

 The fronts have a holographic foil of sorts that looks very nice; backs include the usual details. You can see that the date of the Seung Youp Lee event was May 25, 2008.

 Here is Yoshitomo Tani's card. I'm not sure exactly how one gets these cards.

Tani's Players Day was on June 8th. I'm assuming that they are given away at the gate to a certain number of fans; it could be that all fans who attend the game that day get a card. This year's Players Day events were spread out over nine dates, though two of those dates included two players. It looks like the two players shared a card.

I can't verify the 2008 events, but the 2014 sets have print runs of 40,000 cards, and it looks like they were given out to the first 40,000 attendees. The 2014 dates included special jerseys and "sheets" on sale; the sheets look like decent-sized banners and should be pretty big for the nearly $40 price tag they carry.