Night Owl Cards

I've been sitting on an envelope from Billy for a little bit too long. Billy, who has crazy luck pulling cards, lately has been my regular supplier of two things: 1991 BBM Hideo Nomo rookie cards and 1975 Topps buybacks. If you're going to specialize in sending out two particular items, you cannot do better than that. Billy sent me another BBM Nomo rookie card a couple of years ago . I did a breakdown of the set and Nomo's relationship with it then. Suffice to say, Nomo doesn't just have a lot of rookie cards in 1995 American card products. He dominated the Japanese market in rookie cards a full four years earlier, possibly even earlier than that. So, Billy sent me two more of Nomo's 1991 rookies, the card above and this card here: Pretty cool. I now have three of the BBM Nomos. I think only two or three to go. Here are the backs of both recent pickups: I'm assuming the same text is on each card. Those most definitely are not Nomo's s...

(Hey, kids, we've arrived at my least favorite day of the whole year! Daylight Savings Time kicks in, we lose an hour, during one of the busiest sports weekends of the year! Where is the petition for me to sign? It's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 252nd in a series): I couldn't tell you off the top of my head how many rookie cards Hideo Nomo owns from U.S.-made card brands. Fourteen? Fifteen? Twenty? It's pretty ridiculous to me that a player would have a double-digit number of rookie cards. I grew up during the time when a player was given one rookie card and that was it. But beyond Nomo's U.S. rookie cards, he has even more rookie cards than that! Nomo pitched professionally in Japan for five years, from 1990-94 in the Nippon Professional Baseball league. And there are cards issued of him from that time period. In general, Nomo's Japanese rookie cards are considered to be 1991 BBM and Calbee cards. The card above is Nomo's 1991 B...