1959 JCM31c-2 Japanese Baseball MENKO Card~ HIROOKA YONAMINE NAGASHIMA ~3 HOFers

Description: 1959 JCM 31c type 2 (JCM-31-C-2) 'Marukami Cartoon Back' Color with Borders Baseball Menko CardType 2 with no Murukami Symbol on Back Shigeo Nagashima 長嶋Yomiuri Giants HOFer & Wally Yonamine 与那嶺要Yomiuri Giants HOFer nicknamed The 'Japanese Jackie Robinson'former San Francisco 49ers Running Back born and raised in Olowau, Maui Hawaii & Tatsuro Hirooka 広岡達郎Yomiuri Giants HOFer All 3 Players are Japanese Baseball Hall of Famers These Color Baseball Menko Cards were made in 1959. This set is Catalogued as JCM 31c type 2 in the Japanese Baseball Card Catalog. They are called 'Marukami Color Cartoon Back w/ Borders and w/o Marukami Symbol' Menko Cards.Examples from this set are Scarce overall. Shigeo Nagashima 長嶋茂雄is in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Nagashima was a player for 17 seasons between 1958-1974. 444 career Homeruns with a .305 Career Average. 11X Japan Series Champion (as a player) 3X Japan Series Champion (as a manager) 1994, 1996, 2000 1958 Central League Rookie of the Year 5X Central League MVP (1961, 1963, 1966, 1968, 1971) 4X Japan Series MVP (1963, 1965, 1969, 1970) Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize (1971) Yomiuri Giants #3 retired & Wally Yonamine 与那嶺要 is in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Wally was born and raised in Olowau, Maui Hawaii Yonamine was a player in NPL Pro Baseball from 1951-1962. Before that he briefly played for the San Francisco 49ers as a running back in the NFL Yonamine signed a $14,000 contract, playing running back for the San Francisco 49ers in their second season (1947). Doing so, he became the first Football player of Japanese American ancestry to play Professional Football. His football career ended during the off-season, when he broke his wrist playing in an amateur baseball league in Hawaii. In Baseball, Yonamine was the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II. A multi-skilled outfielder, Yonamine was also noted for his flexible batting style and aggressive baserunning during his career with the Yomiuri Giants and Chunichi Dragons. In Japan, Yonamine was a member of four Japan Series Championship teams, the Central League MVP in 1957, a consecutive seven-time Best Nine Award winner (1952–58), an Eleven-Time All-Star, a three-time Batting Champion, and one of the first foreigner to be a manager (Dragons, 1972–77). Yonamine attended Lahainaluna on Maui, and Oahu's Wallace Rider Farrington High School. The name of his high school was the origin of his nickname, originally Wallace, but quickly changed to Wally, which would later become his legal name. & Tatsuro Hirooka 広岡達郎 is in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Hirooka played his entire career, from 1954 to 1966, for the Yomiuri Giants. He was awarded the Central League rookie of the year award in 1954. From 1961 to 1966, Hirooka was a player-coach for the Giants. average wearback Prize ink stampcollector grade about 1-13/16" by 3" Great for the 'type card collector', or Japanese Card collector.... guaranteed authentic and unaltered. ~SHIPPING~  I have to start charging for shipping on items over $20.  On $20+, It cost me $4.36 to send a small 3oz USPS tracked envelope.  On mid-range items in the $20-$50 range  I need to charge for a part of this fee  so have a new $2 Shipping Charge on some items.   Mahalo

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Location: Keaau, Hawaii

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