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Posted By: Paul

These were issued in a place called Manama, which is now part of the United Arab Emirates, near Saudi Arabia. I don't think anyone knows why they chose to include U.S. and Japanese players. That's always seemed odd to me. Maybe those were the two most prominent baseball countries worldwide at the time.

My mistake. Manama is the capital of Bahrain, another small country located near Saudi Arabia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manama