1998 Pro Baseball Stickers / 1998 프로 야구 스티커스

This post has been a long time coming because I picked up these stickers months ago. For those of you may not know, foreigners were first accepted into the league in 1998, so this may very well be the first appearance of them on any Korean sets. I do not know of any card sets in 1998, so the first actual foreigner cards appear in the 1999 Teleca set.

These are mini stickers that measure 6cm (2.36") on the long side. This complete set list is numbered to 289 but because some player stickers are paired with the same number, the set is actually 304 stickers. I uploaded the set, checklist and stickers (I have) to tradingcarddb.com here.

Each team has about 32 players, including any paired players. There are also five different symbols on some of the stickers. I am not positive what they mean but I can fathom some guesses. Those guesses are under each sticker image below.

I believe I'm missing some star players who may be on some of these variations. I will update this list as necessary.

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Base stickers - These make up the majority of the set. The player image, name (in Korean) and team logo
are represented.

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Backs - Each back has a baseball term in Korean, such as hook-sliding and double header, and all look the same.
Because the shiny stickers are made of a foil, the backs are darker and the sticker stiffer.

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Shiny stickers - I believe these might represent the best player on the team. Because of the foil material used to
make this sticker, the backs are generally darker and stiffer. These stickers are not paired players and are one
per team, so there should be eight in total.

6 49 217 262

Dae-Jin Lee Byung-Kyu Lee Jae-Hong Park Hyung-Gwang Joo

Haitai Tigers LG Twins Hyundai Unicorns Lotte Giants

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Gold Stars - Like the shiny, I think these also represent stars on the team but these are paired stickers,
with the exception of #289.

159a 159b 208a 208b 289

Soo-Keun Jung Min-Ho Kim Soong-Yong Lee Kwang-Lim Kim Ji-Chul Park

OB Bears OB Bears Hyundai Unicorns Hyundai Unicorns Lotte Giants

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Green Baseball - I believe these are for the best pitchers

34a 34b 147a 147b 181a 181b 193a 193b

Jung-Soo Kim Kang-Chul Lee Joong-Sik Park Sang-Yeop Kim Myung-Hwan Park Sang-Jin Kim Woong-Chun Cho Min-Tae Chung

Haitai Tigers Haitai Tigers Samsung Lions Samsung Lions OB Bears OB Bears Hyundai Unicorns Hyundai Unicorns

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Yellow Bat - I believe these are for the best hitters

21a 21b 62a 62b 122a 122b 269a 269b

Ho-Sung Lee Hoon-Jae Choi Jae-Hyun Kim Jae-Hak Sim Joon-Hyuk Yang Dong-Joo Shin Dae-Ik Kim Eung-Kuk Kim

Haitai Tigers Haitai Tigers LG Twins LG Twins Samsung Lions Samsung Lions Lotte Giants Lotte Giants

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Blue Glove - I believe these are for the best defensive players.

75a 75b 92a 92b

Ji-Hyun Yoo Myung-Suk Cha Won-Hyung Kim Sung-Bo Shim

LG Twins LG Twins Ssangbangwool Raiders Ssangbangwool Raiders

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