KuboTen package received!

I made multiple purchases on KuboTen the last few weeks and had them shipped together. They arrived yesterday (super fast too, 2 days?) and here are the pictures.

All together I think I bought 93 cards and about 58 are different.. all Lee Seung-yeop (이승엽 / 李承燁) cards. My plan is to submit these to PSA for a Master Set Registry. BBM, Calbee, Konami, and Yomiuri Giants. I don't believe I have any Owners League in this shipment. When I saw the large envelope I wondered what was inside. I didn't realize the folder was a folder, I thought it was a card so I was a little bummed but it's a cool piece to have.















Ryan, over at This Card Is Cool, is helping me acquire more Lee Seung-yeop cards, and I, helping him with Korean cards.

Lee Seung-yeop statue

I've been putting this off for some time but I finally purchased the Lee Seung-yeop statue that's been for sale for maybe two years now. I paid W59,000 won (~$54), a bit pricey, but that's what it costs. Initially I thought it was a bobblehead so I was surprised to realize it wasn't when I opened the box. It comes with a detachable stand. The likeness is one of the best I've seen in any statue/bobblehead. It's beautiful and well-detailed.

Added Lee Seung-Yeop cards

I've scanned and uploaded new Lee acquisitions to the Lee Seung-Yeop page. I am in the process of adding more cards to the PC using Buyee, KubeTEN and Noppin.

2004 BBM Marines Soul of Marines #SM13
2004 Calbee Newcomer #098
2004 Calbee Opening Game #OP-2
2005 Calbee #100
2005 Konami Baseball Heroes #B05W159
2005 Konami Baseball Heroes #B05S044
2005 Konami Baseball Heroes 2 #B06S044
2006 Calbee Top Player #TP20
2006 Konami Baseball Heroes 2 #B06S044
2007 Calbee #196
2007 Calbee Opening Game #0P-2
2008 Yomiuri Giants Players Day
2009 BBM 1st Version #238
2009 Yomiuri Giants Players Day
2010 Owner's League #008 Black
2010 Owner's League #008 White
2011 Owner's League #055 Black
2016 SMG Ntreev Baseball's Best Players - Forever Ace Gold Kira #SA002
2016-17 SMG Ntreev Super Star Black Edition #001-SS

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

Noppin Japanese Card Order

I just received my first order of Japanese cards from Noppin (dba Crescent Trading), a Japanese "middle man" company who places your bids and ships to you. I think you would need a Japanese Yahoo! Auction account which I don't think non-Japanese can get, otherwise I would attempt this myself.

When using this site, and others like KuboTEN, who I am awaiting an order from, they charge you 1000JPY (~$10) per seller you buy from. So if you want seven cards from seven different sellers, you are paying $70 off the bat. The good things is that they will hold all your packages and ship them all at once so you can save on shipping. These sites require you to deposit money ahead of time to bid on items, similar to COMC, and I use PayPal. Since they are in Japan, they charge you JPY (Japanese Yen) which is less than the U.S. dollar at the moment so I make a little more on the exchange; unlike my more important monthly exchange from Korean Won to US dollars.

I decided to take photos of the packaging received from Noppin. I ordered 17 different Seung-Yeop Lee (이승엽) cards from different sellers. Keep in mind, you have to go by the pictures unless you can read Japanese, which I can not, though I use bad Google translator for assistance. The auction sites also use the translator so you don't have to cut and paste everything to a translator, but it may not always give you what you need. I decided to pay the $14 to ship via EMS instead of Air Mail.













In this order, I received two Yomiuri Playing Day cards of Lee with the Giants which are packaged inside a Giants postcard, some Calbee, BBM and Konami. I did read on one of the auctions that it said the card was dirty, but it was cheap so I bought it anyway. Upon closer inspection, the holographic card has surface smudges that can't be removed so I probably won't submit it to PSA but will look for a new copy.

2000 Lotte Giants Phone Cards

With the help of Dave over at Japanese Baseball Cards, who also collects Korean cards, he pointed me in the direction to pick up my first phone cards. I just started looking at these closely and will try to find out which company released these. I'm leaning towards calling these "Seoul International Phone Call" because it's in bold on the back with a logo. These are super unique and I'm very happy to have these now. I appreciate Dave giving me a heads up.

I'm not sure when these were released, if these only came in Lotte Giants players, or how many there are. There are no names listed on the cards, only the player photo and a facsimile auto. The expiration date for these cards was 4/30/2000 so I wouldn't be surprised if these were released in 1999. I used my 1999 and 2000 Teleca set uploads at Trading Card Database to identify the players.


#12 Sung-Woo Kang


#3 Dae-Ik Kim


#28 Hyung-Kwang Joo


#27 Ki-Moon Choi


#75 Dong-Hwan Moon


#0 Pil-Sung Kong


#17 Weung-Kook Kim

Baseball's Best Players box breaks

I bought a box of each Baseball Best Players and tried to hit some of the inserts I needed to complete the sets.

2015 SMG Ntreev Baseball's Best Players Hell's Fireball box break


2016 SMG Ntreev Baseball's Best Players Diamond Winners box break


2016 SMG Ntreev Baseball's Best Players Forever Ace box break