In 1991, BBM revolutionized the Japanese baseball card industry by creating the first modern American style baseball card set. The 400 card set was the first to contain cards of virtually every current Japan Pro Baseball player. The card size was similar to the size of Topps baseball cards. The card layout, front and back, was reminiscent of American cards. The cards were sold in 10 card packs, with 30 packs in a box. There was a parallel team hologram insert set with a parallel card inserted into the occasional pack. 33 years later, BBM is still the leader in producing annual baseball sets featuring Japan Pro players.

The 1991 set was introduced at a propitious time, since it corresponded to the beginning of Hideo Nomo's career. Not only did BBM issue a regular issue rookie card of Nomo, but a special six card Nomo subset was included as well. The set also contains cards of several players who were among the vanguard of Japanese pitchers to play in the American major leagues, such as former A.L. ROY Kazuhiro Sasaki, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Hideki Irabu, Masato Yoshii, Masao Kida, Shingo Takatsu, etc.

Additionally, numerous Japan Hall of Famers/Golden players are included in the set, such as Kazuhiro Kiyohara, Koji Akiyama, Hiromitsu Ochiai, Tatsunori Hara, Hiromasa Arai, Yukio Tanaka, Masaki Saito, Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Tomonori Maeda, Hiromitsu Kadota, etc., etc. There are also 29 cards of North Americans who were playing in Japan at the time, including Orestes Destrade, Ozzie Canseco, Tom O'Malley, Ralph Bryant, R. J. Reynolds, Johnny Ray, and many more. To cap it off, there is an All Time Greats subset with cards of Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima, Minoru Murayama, Isao Harimoto, Kazuhisa Inao, etc.

All in all, this was quite the maiden effort for BBM, the company that has become the king of Japanese baseball cards. Upon opening the 300 cards in this lot, you should be well on your way to completing the 400 card set, and you will probably find a hologram.

1992 BBM baseball cards were issued in two series, with each series containing 250 regular issue cards. Each box contains 200 cards. Also included in every box is one of 12 special hologram cards (Nomo, Ochiai, etc.), Like the 1991 set, numerous Japan Hall of Fame members, North Americans playing in Japan, and Japanese who would go on to play in the U.S. Major Leagues including rookie cards of So Taguchi, Kaz Ishii and Takashi Saitoh are included in the set.

If you win this lot, you will likely be fairly close to completing a 1992 BBM set, and you'll also have a couple of hologram inserts.

There are a total of 700 cards in the three unopened boxes.

Size: Each card is 2 3/8" x 3 5/16".

Condition: Unopened Boxes--nearly all cards inside the packs should be Nm/Mt or Mint.