A thirty (no, make that forty....sigh) something rekindles his childhood interest in baseball cards on the other side of the world.
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Finally! My first bag of 2014 Calbees at lunch in the office
It has been more than a week since Calbee officially released its 2014 set. And we are already several days into the 2014 regular season. Until today, however, I have been completely unsuccessful in my efforts to obtain an actual bag of 2014 Calbee Yakyuu chips.
I have looked long and hard. Pretty much every conbini or grocery store I have passed by (and there have been a lot) I have gone in and taken a look through their snack sections. Every time it was the same: a bunch of bags of non-baseball-card-having chips.
Just when I was about to give up hope of ever getting a bag, however, today it started raining. This forced me to abandon my plans to have Chinese (long walk) and get lunch at the last place I would have thought to look for yakyuu chips: a university Co-op store.
The second I wandered in I did a double take: they had a rack full of 2014 yakyuu chips right there near the front entrance! I was so excited I almost forgot to buy my lunch.
Anyway, I bought the bag and went back to my office for lunch, which I am currently eating while writing this post. The sandwich I bought sucks, but the yakyuu chips are great. As has been usual in recent years, the 2014 Calbees come with 2 cards per bag:
Opening them up I am pleased to see that I got Yuya Hasegawa, who had a big breakout year for Fukuoka last year, winning the batting title and coming a hair shy of reaching the 200 hit mark:
The design of the cards on the front is basically identical to last year`s. The backs are slightly different from 2013, but I think they basically recycle the back design from another recent set that I can`t recall off the top of my head. Maybe 2012 or 2010? I know I have seen this type of card back before.
Anyway, I`m glad that my 2014 Calbee set has finally begun. I`ll see how far I get with the first series. Unfortunately the bags are a bit more expensive this year - 98 yen. The consumption tax just went up 3% on Monday, which probably contributed to that, so it might cost me a bit more than last year (which as usual I came nowhere near finishing)!
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