Sadaharu Oh

[Jeff Alcorn]

Hi again,

After seeing Sean's post that appeared after I hit send on mine, I checked my 2 encyclopedias of Japanese baseball. One of them lists his name as Seiji Shibuya and the other has his name as Seiji Shibutani. The second kanji can be Tani or Ya. There were 3 players that had that last name from 1936 - 2004 (the years covered in my encyclopedias), and one lists all 3 as Shibuya and the other lists 2 as Shibuya and 1 - the Swallows pitcher as Shibutani. I would go with Shibutani since that comes from the Official Encyclopedia while the other with Shibuya is from a fan produced book.

It looks like (from the front of the card) that it is from the 1962 set JCM14e in Gary Engel's book. The checklist lists him as Shibuya.

Sorry for the confusion,

Jeff

[seanofjapan]

Originally Posted by Jeff Alcorn

Hi again,

After seeing Sean's post that appeared after I hit send on mine, I checked my 2 encyclopedias of Japanese baseball. One of them lists his name as Seiji Shibuya and the other has his name as Seiji Shibutani. The second kanji can be Tani or Ya. There were 3 players that had that last name from 1936 - 2004 (the years covered in my encyclopedias), and one lists all 3 as Shibuya and the other lists 2 as Shibuya and 1 - the Swallows pitcher as Shibutani. I would go with Shibutani since that comes from the Official Encyclopedia while the other with Shibuya is from a fan produced book.

It looks like (from the front of the card) that it is from the 1962 set JCM14e in Gary Engel's book. The checklist lists him as Shibuya.

Sorry for the confusion,

Jeff

Yeah, that is an easy mistake to make. Those are the same characters for famous Shibuya area in Tokyo so I think everyone reads them that way at first glance. For an online source, his NPB lists him as Shibutani:

https://npb.jp/bis/players/31033825.html

And since his name came up, here are some Masaichi Kaneda cards (Japan's only 400 game winner) from my collection (I have no idea how to make them appear right side up).

[Casey2296]

1964 Fujiya Gum
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[Kevin]

Absolutely fantastic

[itjclarke]

I've been accumulating Ohs over the past several years. Love the variaty, and loved that most could be purchased raw in "collector grade".

[itjclarke]

My signed ball, English and Japanese... And his partner in crime, Shigeo Nagashima, 2nd from top left and top right.
Sadaharu Oh signed ball.jpg1958 Menko Mitsua Uncut Nagashima and Kineda.jpg

[Exhibitman]

There are some beautiful post-war Japanese baseball cards. I am partial to the 1949 and 1951 cards related to the tours of the Seals and the all stars that Lefty O'Doul put together. I have a nice group of Seals bromides from 1949 of O'Doul and Arky Vaughan, who was in his final go-round as a player. I also have, somewhere in the mess at home, cards of Isao Harimoto (only 500HR 3000 hit guy), Masaichi Kaneda (400 game winner), Katsuya Nomura (the greatest catcher), Tetsuharu Kawakami (The God of Batting), Victor Starffin (Russian 300 game winner) and Nagashima. Plus, because it caught my eye years ago at a National, a giant bromide of Dom DiMaggio.

[Frankish]

Sean, Jeff, and Nat: thank you very much. I learn something here every day!