An excellent journalistic effort by NPBCardGuy can be found at the Japanese Baseball Card Blog.
He provides a great look at the beginnings of BBM through a first-hand interview and further research. Also very interesting information about how the late-80's baseball card boom in the U.S. influenced the creation of BBM cards and influenced Calbee and the other established card-makers at that time.
Great work, I encourage everyone to check it out.
2 comments:
Hey thanks for the plug! Glad you liked the post.
Thanks for putting it together, looked like a lot of work. I would have never guessed that the beginnings of BBM would have been influenced so much by Americans, much less by ones kind of out of the card making industry.
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