2023 Topps WBC Team Samurai
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Description
2023 Topps WBC Team Samurai is a 33-card set produced and distributed exclusively in Japan to commemorate Team Japan's (a.k.a. the "Baseball Samurai") victory in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. The set was available for a four week period beginning April 6th on Topps' Japanese website. Each set will also include two parallels.
Distribution
Boxed set exclusive to jp.topps.com (MSRP: ¥7700)
Reviews
Insertion Ratios
| Cards | Total Cards | Numbered To | Odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base | 33 | - | SET |
| Rainbow Spectrum | 33 | - | PAR |
| Cherry Blossom | 33 | 150 | PAR |
| Blue | 33 | 88 | PAR |
| Green | 33 | 77 | PAR |
| Purple | 33 | 25 | PAR |
| Yellow | 33 | 10 | PAR |
| Red | 33 | 7 | PAR |
| Gold | 33 | one-of-one | PAR |
| Ichiro Celebration | 2 | - | 1:3 |
| Game-Used Baseball Relic | 1 | 10 | ? |
| Game-Used Baseball Relic Red | 1 | 5 | ? |
| Game-Used Baseball Relic Gold | 1 | one-of-one | ? |
SET: One 33-card base set per box.
PAR: Two parallels per box.
Checklist
NOTE: All cards are in Japanese.
Base Set
- 1 Team Japan
- 2 Taisei Ota
- 3 Yu Darvish
- 4 Kensuke Kondoh
- 5 Soichiro Yamazaki
- 6 Ryoji Kuribayashi
- 7 Shugo Maki
- 8 Sosuke Genda
- 9 Keiji Takahashi
- 10 Lars Nootbaar
- 11 Takumi Oshiro
- 12 Atsuki Yuasa
- 13 Hideki Kuriyama
- 14 Takuya Kai
- 15 Yuki Udagawa
- 16 Roki Sasaki
- 17 Shohei Ohtani
- 18 Takumu Nakano
- 19 Yoshinobu Yamamoto
- 20 Hiromi Itoh
- 21 Yuki Matsui
- 22 Yuhei Nakamura
- 23 Hiroya Miyagi
- 24 Hiroto Takahashi
- 25 Kazuma Okamoto
- 26 Tetsuto Yamada
- 27 Ukyo Shuto
- 28 Masataka Yoshida
- 29 Shota Imanaga
- 30 Munetaka Murakami
- 31 Shosei Togo
- 32 Taisei Makihara
- 33 Hotaka Yamakawa
Parallels
All 33 base cards are available in the following parallels.
- Rainbow Spectrum
- Cherry Blossom (serial-numbered to 150 copies)
- Blue (serial-numbered to 88 copies)
- Green (serial-numbered to 77 copies)
- Purple (serial-numbered to 25 copies)
- Yellow (serial-numbered to ten
Inserts
Ichiro Celebration
This two-card set features Ichiro playing in the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics.
- 2006 Ichiro
- 2009 Ichiro
Game-Used
Game-Used Baseball Relic
This card features a piece of a baseball thrown by Baseball Samurai pitcher Roki Sasaki in the Japan's semifinal victory over Mexico. This card is serial-numbered to ten and also available in the following parallels.
- Red (serial-numbered to five)
- Gold (one-of-one)
- Roki Sasaki
