All baseball memorabilia Japanese

[Kawika]

I always come away with something cool from Robert Klevens's booth at the National. Am sorry to miss out this year. Picked up some 1950 Shonen Club premiums from him last year. They are about T3 size on thickish paper. The writing on the back is different on each card so I am deducing that it is particular to the player (can't read a word of it).

Kaoru Betto HOF


Michio Nishizawa HOF

[sforaker]

From 1934 Tour of Japan.

[seattlerainiers]

Here are a few neat images from the thriving Japanese Industrial Leagues in Seattle in the teens:

1. The Mikado team shot is taken at Seattle's Woodland Park, now the site of Woodland Park Zoo. Northwest baseball stalwart George Engel is present (1911 Obak):

http://www.baseball-reference.com/mi...d=engel-002geo

2. The Mikasa and Cherry teams are pictures at Dugdale Park, home of the Northwestern League Seattle Giants.

Check out that super-cool banner!

[71buc]

Reviving an old thread for purely self serving reasons. Ben's recent 1934 Tour of Japan thread rekindled my passion for large Japanese baseball related advertising posters. I picked this one up in Prestigecollectibles' most recent auction. Why can't I seem to remain focused in my collecting efforts?? Nonetheless I can't wait to receive it and get it framed.

I can't read it but the auction description is as follows. "This poster was an advertisement for a film about the 1959 Japan Series between the Yomiuri Giants and Nankai Hawks, in which the Hawks completed a four game sweep. An image of the Series' MVP, Tadashi Sugiura, appears on the poster, along Mr. Giants, Shigeo Nagashima, who was Sugiura's teammate at Rikkio University. The two players had each been named Rookie of the Year for 1958 in their respective leagues, so the Series was billed as a matchup of these two future Hall of Fame members. The color movie was filmed in Premier Scope and was produced by the Premier Film Company. It is thought that this movie was a contemporary newsreel or documentary".

[JoeDfan]

Here are most of my Japanese items.
A circa 1951(?) Japanese card of DiMaggio and I think Lefty O'Doul. I think I got this one from Rob Fitts, but I cannot remember at the moment.
An unknown (unless one of you knows?) photo of a Giants player. I can't remember where I got that one (maybe Japan?).
And a magazine with Joe on the cover that I keep intending to frame and hang up, but keep forgetting to do.

[Mark70Z]

I picked up a Japanese magazine with Brooks Robinson and Shigeo Nagashima on the cover. In fairly nice shape as well...

[71buc]

Sean that's a very cool DiMaggio magazine cover. Sean congrats on finally finding the Robinson Japanese magazine. You've been looking for that one for awhile haven't you?