BBM's effort for 1998 was a large set containing cards of every player in Japanese baseball that season. There are five cards of Ichiro Suzuki (HOF) in the set, along with cards of other former Japanese U.S. major leaguers, such as Hideki Matsui (HOF), Hiroki Kuroda (HOF), Kazuhiro Sasaki (HOF), Shingo Takatsu (HOF), Tadahito Iguchi (Golden Player), Kazuo Matsui (Golden Player), Norihiro Nakamura (Golden Player), Kenji Johjima, Hideki Okajima, Akinori Otsuka, So Taguchi, Kazuhisa Ishii, Kei Igawa (rookie), Keiichi Yabu, Masumi Kuwata, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Takashi Kashiwada, Takahito Nomura, Masao Kida, Kenshin Kawakami and Satoru Komiyama. There are also cards of 40 North Americans who played in Japan that year, including Julio Franco.

Size: 577 cards. Each card is 2 1/2" x 3 1/2".

Condition: All or nearly all cards should be Nm/Mt or Mint.