Thursday, March 9, 2017

Nicaraguan (Correos '95) 1995 Korean Baseball Championship stamp set

I bought these on ebay last year for about $35USD and they appear readily available. These would look cleaner but my scanner needs to be replaced.

These were released by Correos of Nicaragua in 1995. All eight teams of the KBO in '95 make up this stamp set with 9 stamps per team (8 players, 1 mascot). For each team, players make up the outside border and the mascot is in the middle. The players name is in full Korean as well as the family name and first two initials in English. At the time of this post I have forgotten to scan the back. I will include one later. On the bottom of the sheet it says in Korean, Korea Pro Baseball (한국프로야구). The photos are of games played in Korea, during the season I'd assume.

I may consider breaking up a team set to get a player graded by PSA (maybe Jong-Beom Lee, Min-Tae Chung or Ki-Tae Kim). I have a Mattingly Grenada stamp graded so hopefully they will grade these as well. I will even see if I can add this to TCDB but I have a feeling it's not allowed since these are stamps. I added the checklist for this stamp set to TCDB located here. It is listed under Oddball (as is the Grenada), not Korean League.

Haitai Tigers
해태 타이그즈


Dong-Yeol Sun
Jong-Beom Lee
Jung-Soo Kim
Sung-Han Kim
Kang-Chul Lee
Gae-Hyun Cho
Sang-Hoon Kim
Soon-Chul Lee


Hanwha Eagles
한화 이글스


Jong-Hoon Jang
Yong-Duk Han
Kang-Don Lee
Ji-Sang Park
Min-Chul Jeong
Jin-Woo Song
Jung-Gil Kang
Dae-Sung Koo


LG Twins
LG 트윈스


Dae-Hwan Han
Yong-Su Kim
Ji-Hyun Yoo
Yong-Bin Seo
Jong-Ho Park
Sang-Hoon Lee
Dong-Soo Kim
Jae-Hyun Kim


Lotte Giants
롯데 자이언츠


Hak-Gil Yoon
Dong-Hee Park
Hyung-Kwang Joo
Eung-Kook Kim
Jung-Tae Park
Pil-Sung Kong
Jong-Suk Yeom
Min-Ho Kim


OB Bears
OB 베어스


Myung-Soo Lee
Chul-Soon Park
Hyung-Suk Lim
Kyung-Won Kim
Jong-Suk Kim
Tae-Hyung Kim
Hyung-Suk Kim
Sang-Jin Kim


Pacific Dolphins
태평양 돌핀스


Kyung-Won Jung
Kyung-Ki Kim
Hong-Jib Kim
Min-Tae Chung
Byung-Won An
Duk-Gyu Yoon
Sang-Duk Choi
Dong-Ki Kim


Samsung Lions
삼성 라이온즈


Jung-Il Ryu
Sang-Yeop Kim
Sung-Rae Kim
Bong-Chul Dong
Ki-Woong Kang
Choong-Sik Park
Joon-Hyuk Yang
Tae-Han Kim


Ssangbangwool Raiders
쌍방울 레이더스


No-Joon Park
Kyu-Jae Cho
Ki-Tae Kim
Won-Hyung Kim
In-Ho Baik
Sung-Ki Park
Kwang-Lim Kim
Jin-Suk Park

5 comments:

  1. These are way too awesome to break up to get one stamp graded.

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  2. I wouldn't break them up. I'd leave them intact - I'm not sure if PSA grades whole stamp sheets but that could be an option if you insist.

    I have a bunch of foreign baseball stamps from through the years. I think I have a few of these, but I don't know where I picked them up... possibly at a stamp shop in Korea.

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  3. I just called PSA and they do grade the Grenada stamp sheets so maybe one day I'll try to grade one of them. Jason told me TCDB was trying to get away from not adding anything other than cards but I will try to add the CL I made for these.

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