Sadaharu Oh

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Originally Posted by Frankish

Also, I'd been considering making a post to get some help identifying a few Sadaharu and other cards. Hope you don't mind if I just stick the pictures in here. Maybe some Sadaharu experts could steer me in the right direction?

The other card looks like Kaneda (actually, I can't imagine who else it would be), but I don't know the issue....

You've got a really good Sadaharu Oh card there. The round one on the right is from the 1965 Giants Furikake menko set. Its extremely rare, fewer than five copies are known to exist. I have one too, I wrote a bit about it here:

http://baseballcardsinjapan.blogspot...-oh-cards.html

The pitcher card you have is of Seiji Shibutani, who was a team mate of Kaneda's on the Kokutetsu Swallows. Not sure what set it is from without seeing the back.

The other circular Oh card you have on the left I think is uncatalogued. I remember bidding on one on Yahoo Japan Auctions a few months ago, I think it sold for about 7000 or 8000 Yen (like 75$ or so).

The rectangular Oh card I'm not sure what set its from, probably a 1970s issue (very cool artwork on it)!