Sunday, January 3, 2016

Tigers Team issued Sets

I recently picked up some cards from two team issued sets for the Hanshin Tigers.  From looking at posts on The Hanshin Tigers English News website (a great site that I need to explore some more), it looks like these cards were distributed with the "Monthly Hanshin Tigers" fan magazine.  I've got some examples from both 2014 and 2015.  First the 2014's:



As you can see, each card is numbered on the back.  I have the following 14 cards from the set:

01 - Daiki Enokida
03 - Yuya Andoh
04 - Shintaro Fujinami
06 - Shinobu Fukuhara
07 - Randy Messenger
08 - Kosuke Katoh
10 - Takashi Shimizu
12 - Akihito Fujii
14 - Kentaro Sekimoto
16 - Mauro Gomez
20 - Katsuhiko Saka
21 - Yamato (Maeda)
22 - Kosuke Fukudome
23 - Matt Murton

The Hanshin Tigers English News has a little more information on the 2015 set.  Apparently the set was distributed five cards at a time in the June through November issues of the "Monthly Hanshin Tigers" magazine.  Each group of five included one OB player along with four active players.  There's 30 cards in all - 24 active and 6 OB.



I have the following 18 of these cards:

02 - Yuya Andoh
03 - Shintaro Fujinami
04 - Minoru Iwata
06 - Shinobu Fukuhara
07 - Randy Messenger
08 - Ryoma Matsuda
09 - Akira Iwamoto
10 - Suguru Iwazaki
12 - Akhito Fujii
13 - Takashi Toritani
14 - Kentaro Sekimoto
16 - Mauro Gomez
17 - Tsuyoshi Nishioka
19 - Yamato (Maeda)
20 - Kosuke Fukudome
22 - Hayata Itoh
23 - Shunsuke (Fujikawa)
24 - Keisuke Kanoh

Based on the posts on HTEN, the other six active player cards are Atsushi Nohmi (#01), Seung-Hwan Oh (#05),  Ryotaro Umeno (#11),  Hiroki Uemoto(#15), Ryota Arai (#18) and Matt Murton (#21).  (I'm guessing their card numbers based on the fact that the cards are numbered by uniform number group by pitchers first followed by catchers, infielders and outfielders),   The six OB players are Tomoaki Kanemoto, Akinobu Okada, Masayuki Kakefu, Randy Bass, Yutaka Enatsu,  and Koichi Tabuchi.

UPDATE - almost forgot I wanted mention that the backs for both sets are color coded - yellow for pitchers, red for catchers, green for infielders and blue for outfielders.

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