Recent BBM and newer Korean released Lee Seung-yuop pickups

This year has been a slow progression as I havent been able to find a lot of older Lee cards. In the last few months I have picked up some 2022 releases from the Bucky Nine Legend of Heritage and SCC Legend sets, but only the bases and parallels, still needing most of the expensive low serialed cards. There is a SCC Legend Galactic /10 for sale but the seller is wanting about 380,000 won ($293) for it, a bit more than I want to pay. I think I also saw the SCC Legend /1 for 1,500,000 won ($1,150).

Here are the 2022 Bucky Nine Legend of Heritage and SCC Legend base and parallels:











The reason I'm writing this post is for the following cards. BBM, the Japanese card company that established itself in 1991, often has facsimile signature parallel cards of a few different designs/colors. These are usally numbered /100, /50 and /25. The parallels can be Holo Foil Signature (usually /50), Red Signature (usually /25), Silver Signature (/100 or unnumbered) and Gold Signature (usually /100). As I mentioned, I havent seen these for sale, until last week. I did a search for Lee cards on Korean cafes and found one sale post that had multiple facsimile autos I needed. These were sold in lots, some of the cards I didnt need, some had one or two facsimile autos I needed, so I jumped on them RIGHT AWAY. What's strange/ironic is that the seller is someone who bought Lee cards from me before, I just didnt realize it was him until I messaged him with my interest and saw our previous conversation pop up. Here are the facsimile autos I needed and will be subbed to PSA for the Master Set Registry. They are from 2007, 2008 and 2010, all on the Yomiuri Giants.


2007 BBM Gold Signature #343 /100


2007 BBM Silver Signature #343


2008 BBM Yomiuri Giants Red Signature #G049 /25


2010 BBM Yomiuri Giants Gold Signature #G047 /100


2010 BBM Yomiuri Giants Red Signature #G047 /25




I'm thrilled to have picked up these 5 facsimile autos but there are still several more I need to buy that I didn't realize were made. I am working on a want list for that and will post it on my Instagram and Twitter to hopefully find someone who would sell me what I need.



Lastly, there are three Samsung Lions Lee Seung-yuop 3D cards were also in this purchase but I dont have their front and backs in an image together at the moment. They arent in the best condition but I had never seen them for sale, which was another reason I had to jump on this sales post. Maybe I will share them in another post later.

JCM 61: 1948 Young Player Back menko

For the illustrated menko sets released between 1947-1950, this might be my favorite. I love the art on both the fornt and backs. I love the different poses for the "young player" on the backs.


1234 Tokuji Iida

1844 Shigeyoshi Morishita


1905 Noboru Aota


2003 Tadayoshi Kajioka


2008 Kaoru Betto


2082 Torui

2663 Hiroshi Oshita


3602 Tamaichi Yasui

3608 Masayasu Kaneda


4001 Kazuto Tsuruoka (Yakamoto)


4019 Home Run


4378 Auto

5001 Masayasu Kaneda


5042 Zenzo Hasegawa


5302 Tetsuharu Kawakami

5555 Michinori Tsubouchi


5678 Nobuo Nakatani

6500 Jiro Noguchi


6519 Noboru Aota


6524 Seikan


7047 Seifu (safe)

7056 Takeshi Doigaki


7613 Tetsuharu Kawakami


8071 Michinori Tsubouchi


8507 Takao Misonoo


9001 Bozo Wakabayashi


9105 Tokuten


9199 Haruyasu Nakajima

9403 Kaoru Betto


9731 Fumio Fujimura

Newest Lee Seung-yuop card received today

When I spotted the card online I had to have it right away. I overpaid for it for what it is but it's rare because I had never seen it before. The card I am sharing with you today is a 2005 Konami Prime Nine insert card called Super Player. This is different from every other Prime Nine card I have because this one does not have a generic logo back. In 2004 and 2005 Lee played for Chiba Lotte Marines of the Nippon Professioanl baseball (NPB/Japan). I believe Lee 's only Prime Nine cards are from those two years.

Here are some examples of the Prime Nine cards I already have. As you can see they all have the Prime Nine logo on the back.








Here is the 2005 Konami Prime Nine Super Player insert. As you can see it has images on both sides. As I mentioned above, I was very excited to pick this one up because I had have never seen it. This will get sent to PSA with many other cards I need to get graded for the Lee Master Set Registry.



One problem, I can't find any other 2005 Konami Super Player insert cards online to make a checklist to add to TCDB for PSA to see for ID purposes. UPDATE: Jason had already added these insert sets to TCDB. Here is the Second Edition CL

Purchased some menkos yesterday

Yesterday I purchased single lots of menkos of both Shigeo Nagashima and Masaichi Kaneda. They were a little more than I felt comfortable paying but because I needed most of them I didn't mind. These cards will be added to their respective pages once I receive them. I also won a single 5-card lot of Katsuya Nomura, one of which I already have. I will be having these cards sent to Ryan who will then ship to me. Usually when I bid on individual menkos of these players they end up not being too affordable so I feel better about these lot buys. What I enjoy most about buying menkos is adding them to the site and researching them (from Gary's guide) so I know what I have and what I still need. A few of these will be available for trade (for other menkos) or purchase.



Shigeo Nagashima


Katsuya Nomura


Masaichi Kaneda