Checklist Translations: 1990-1992 Chiclets Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL)

     The inaugural season of the CPBL was accompanied by several different sets of baseball cards in various forms.  For the first three years of it's existence, the American Chicle Company (or their Adams subsidiary) produced sets of baseball cards for the CPBL under the Chiclets brand (芝蘭口香糖).  Technically this is a single set, spread across the first three seasons of the CPBL, and is numbered contiguously from 1-400.

     Slight digression - As with most CPBL sets, the cards were actually issued the year following the year they represent, so the 1990 was actually released in 1991  After all, there was no 1989 season, so it would have been very difficult for anyone to acquire all the photos necessary to produce a decent sized 1990 set during the 1990 season and still have it in stores before the year was out.  Today it could probably be done, but remember this was in the days before digital photography.  Aside from some small, team-based sets, this tradition has continued to the present.  Now the official CPBL sets tend to include a reference to the season number in the set names with 1990 being the first.  So the set that will be issued in 2015 will cover then 2014 season and probably have a "CPBL 25th" referenced somewhere.

     Chiclets cards were issued with the well-known candy-coated gum.  The first series of cards had a colorful design that was coordinated with each teams' colors and, as with almost all cards from the region, prominently featured the player's uniform number along with name, team and position.  Foreign players also had their names printed in English on both front and back.  The backs have the card number in the upper left corner, the usual player biographical details and a summary of their 1990 statistics.  The first series includes cards 1-118.  The first 17 cards feature a coloring variation on the back and can be found with both a much lighter border than the rest of the set, being more of a blue-gray as well as the richer blue of the remaining 101 cards.

     Most of the information in this post regarding the nature of the set is due to the detailed information posted on Jack Li's wonderfully detailed blog: 只送不賣的球員卡－話說芝蘭職棒球員卡(上)  This was the first of two posts about the Chiclets set, covering the first two sets.

    So far, 1990 is the only year for which I have been able to construct a complete checklist.  I  would have to assume that it being the first series, it was likely the most popular.  It is certainly the most prevalent on the various auction sites in Taiwan.  This checklist has been posted to both SportsCardForum.com as well as TradingCardDB.com.

1990 Chiclets CPBL First Series

Number	Chinese	English	Team
1	黃平洋	Ping-Yang Huang	Wei Chuan Dragons
2	林易增	I-Tseng Lin	Wei Chuan Dragons
3	馬斯	Matt Huff	Wei Chuan Dragons
4	鷹俠	Luis Iglesias	Mercuries Tigers
5	康明杉	Ming-Shan Kang	Mercuries Tigers
6	涂鴻欽	Hung-Chin Tu	Mercuries Tigers
7	謝長亨	Chang-Heng Hsieh	Uni-President Lions
8	呂文生	Wen-Sheng Lu	Uni-President Lions
9	曾智偵	Chih-Chen Tseng	Uni-President Lions
10	陳義信	Yi-Hsin Chen	Brother Elephants
11	王俊郎	Chun-Lang Wang	Brother Elephants
12	帝波	Freddy Tiburcio	Brother Elephants
13	職業棒球	Team Mascots
14	味全龍隊	Wei Chuan Dragons Team	Wei Chuan Dragons
15	三商虎隊	Brother Elephants Team	Brother Elephants
16	統一獅隊	Uni-President Lions Team	Uni-President Lions
17	兄弟象隊	Mercuries Tigers Team	Mercuries Tigers
18	吳復連	Fu-Lien Wu	Brother Elephants
19	王光輝	Kuang-Hui Wang	Brother Elephants
20	李居明	Chu-Ming Lee	Brother Elephants
21	黃世明	Chih-Ming Huang	Mercuries Tigers
22	宋榮泰	Jung-Tai Sung	Uni-President Lions
23	羅曼	Miguel Roman	Uni-President Lions
24	洪一中	Yi-Chung Hung	Brother Elephants
25	羅世幸	Shih-Hsing Lo	Wei Chuan Dragons
26	鄭幸生	Hsing-Sheng Chang	Mercuries Tigers
27	布朗	Darrell Brown	Brother Elephants
28	鄭百勝	Bai-Chun Chang	Uni-President Lions
29	孫昭立	Chao-Li Sun	Wei Chuan Dragons
30	林仲秋	Chung-Chiu Lin	Mercuries Tigers
31	陳金茂	Chin-Mao Chen	Wei Chuan Dragons
32	郭建霖	Chien-Lin Kuo	Wei Chuan Dragons
33	李安熙	An-Hsi Li	Wei Chuan Dragons
34	林振賢	Jun-Shien Lin	Mercuries Tigers
35	蔡生豐	Sheng-Feng Tsai	Mercuries Tigers
36	陳正中	Cheng-Chung Chen	Mercuries Tigers
37	吉彌	James Aylward	Wei Chuan Dragons
38	黃煚隆	Chiung-Lung Huang	Wei Chuan Dragons
39	陳政賢	Cheng-Hsien Chen	Uni-President Lions
40	涂忠男	Chung-Nan Tu	Mercuries Tigers
41	孫長川	Chang-Chuan Sun	Uni-President Lions
42	汪俊良	Chun-Liang Wang	Uni-President Lions
43	侯明坤	Ming-Kun Hou	Mercuries Tigers
44	余富誠	Fu-Chen Yu	Uni-President Lions
45	吳俊達	Chun-Ta Wu	Brother Elephants
46	瑞奇	Enrique Burgos	Uni-President Lions
47	霸多	Al Pardo	Mercuries Tigers
48	何良志	Liang-Chih He	Mercuries Tigers
49	史東	Joe Strong	Wei Chuan Dragons
50	游宗龍	Tsung-Lung Yu	Mercuries Tigers
51	陳琦豐	Chi-Feng Chen	Brother Elephants
52	大羅曼	Jose Roman	Brother Elephants
53	陳彥成	Yen-Chen Chen	Wei Chuan Dragons
54	徐整當	Chen-Tang Hsu	Mercuries Tigers
55	吳英偉	Ying-Wei Wu	Brother Elephants
56	賈西	Longo Garcia	Wei Chuan Dragons
57	林文城	Wen-Chen Lin	Brother Elephants
58	李文傳	Wen-Chuan Lee	Brother Elephants
59	陳明德	Ming-Te Chen	Mercuries Tigers
60	湯尼	Tony Metoyer	Uni-President Lions
61	陽介仁	Chieh-Jen Yang	Wei Chuan Dragons
62	郭進興	Chin-Hsing Kuo	Uni-President Lions
63	黃武雄	Wu-Shiung Huang	Mercuries Tigers
64	蕭浚濠	Jun-Hao Shiao	Wei Chuan Dragons
65	黃廣琪	Kuang-Chi Huang	Brother Elephants
66	洪正欽	Cheng-Ching Hong	Wei Chuan Dragons
67	張永昌	Yung-Chang Chang	Brother Elephants
68	李仲弘	Chung-Hung Lee	Wei Chuan Dragons
69	林琨瑋	Kun-Wei Lin	Wei Chuan Dragons
70	林光宏	Kuang-Jung Lin	Wei Chuan Dragons
71	張見發	Chien-Fah Chang	Wei Chuan Dragons
72	黃清文	Ching-Wen Huang	Wei Chuan Dragons
73	蔣坤珄	Kun-Shun Chang	Mercuries Tigers
74	翁豐堉	Feng-Yu Weng	Mercuries Tigers
75	劉義傳	Yi-Chuan Liu	Mercuries Tigers
76	藍文成	Wen-Chun Lan	Mercuries Tigers
77	塗永樑	Yung-Liang Tu	Mercuries Tigers
78	李杜宏	Tu-Hung Li	Mercuries Tigers
79	許錫華	Shi-Hua Shu	Mercuries Tigers
80	剛烈	Julian Gonzalez	Mercuries Tigers
81	賴崇光	Chung-Kuang Lai	Uni-President Lions
82	李坤哲	Kun-Che Li	Uni-President Lions
83	羅敏卿	Min-Ching Luo	Uni-President Lions
84	謝佳訓	Chia-Hsun Hsieh	Uni-President Lions
85	耿健輝	Chien-Hui Keng	Uni-President Lions
86	鄧耀華	Yao-Hua Teng	Uni-President Lions
87	杜福明	Fu-Ming Tu	Uni-President Lions
88	徐育鉉	Yi-Chen Shu	Uni-President Lions
89	吳林煉	Lin-Lien Wu	Uni-President Lions
90	廖照鎔	Chao-Jung Liao	Uni-President Lions
91	陳耿佑	Keng-Yu Chen	Uni-President Lions
92	童健勝	Chien-Sheng Tung	Uni-President Lions
93	葉福榮	Fu-Jung Yeh	Uni-President Lions
94	陳逸松	Yi-Sung Chen	Brother Elephants
95	陳憲章	Hsien-Chang Chen	Brother Elephants
96	強生	Dane Johnson	Brother Elephants
97	林百亨	Pai-Heng Lin	Brother Elephants
98	百漢	Leon Baham	Mercuries Tigers
99	武侯	Andy Araujo	Mercuries Tigers
100	艾波	Milton Harper	Uni-President Lions
101	凌森	Hugh Brinson	Uni-President Lions
102	麥克	Michael Bosco	Wei Chuan Dragons
103	孟雷	Jose Moreno	Mercuries Tigers
104	李偉	Elvin Rivera	Mercuries Tigers
105	曹清來	Ching-Lai Tsao	Mercuries Tigers
106	寶力	Julio Paula	Mercuries Tigers
107	瑞克	Rick Bernardo	Uni-President Lions
108	陳世龍	Shih-Lung Chen	Uni-President Lions
109	皮諾	Rolando Pino	Uni-President Lions
110	陳炫琦	Hsuan-Chi Chen	Uni-President Lions
111	江仲豪	Chung-Hao Chiang	Brother Elephants
112	周惠盛	Hui-Cheng Chou	Brother Elephants
113	努那	Dario Nunez	Brother Elephants
114	姚百川	Pai-Chuan Yao	Brother Elephants
115	彭裕國	Yu-Kuo Peng	Brother Elephants
116	牛復興	Fu-Hsing Niu	Brother Elephants
117	黃榮貴	Jung-Huei Huang	Brother Elephants
118	派瑞	Valerio Perez	Brother Elephants

     The second series picked up where the numbering of the first left off and covers cards 119-239.  The first eighteen cards feature the monthly MVPs for the 1990 season.

1991 Chiclets CPBL Second Series

Number	Chinese	English	Team
119	涂鴻欽	Hung-Chin Tu MVP	Mercuries Tigers
120	黃世明	Chih-Ming Huang MVP	Mercuries Tigers
121	黃廣琪	Kuang-Chi Huang MVP	Brother Elephants
122	鄭幸生	Hsing-Sheng Chang MVP	Mercuries Tigers
123	史東	Joe Strong MVP	Wei Chuan Dragons
124	杜福明	Fu-Ming Tu MVP	Uni-President Lions
125	鷹俠	Luis Iglesias MVP	Mercuries Tigers
126	王光輝	Kuang-Hui Wang MVP	Brother Elephants
127	黃平洋	Ping-Yang Huang MVP	Wei Chuan Dragons
128	陳金茂	Chin-Mao Chen MVP	Wei Chuan Dragons
129	帝波	Freddy Tiburcio MVP	Brother Elephants
130	曾智偵	Chi-Chen Tseng MVP	Uni-President Lions
131	羅世幸	Shih-Hsing Lo MVP	Wei Chuan Dragons
132	吳復連	Fu-Lien Wu MVP	Brother Elephants
133	陽介仁	Chieh-Jen Yang MVP	Wei Chuan Dragons
134	杜福明	Fu-Ming Tu MVP	Uni-President Lions
135	涂鴻欽	Hung-Chin Tu MVP	Mercuries Tigers
136	吉彌	James Aylward MVP	Wei Chuan Dragons
137	卡羅	Juan Castillo	Uni-President Lions
138	查維	Pedro Chavez	Brother Elephants
139	黃平洋	Ping-Yang Huang	Wei Chuan Dragons
140	史東	Joe Strong	Wei Chuan Dragons
141	湯尼	Tony Metoyer	Uni-President Lions
142	鷹俠	Luis Iglesias	Mercuries Tigers
143	吉彌	Jim Aylward	Wei Chuan Dragons
144	林仲秋	Chung-Chiu Lin	Mercuries Tigers
145	林易增	I-Tseng Lin	Wei Chuan Dragons
146	曾智偵	Chi-Chen Tseng	Uni-President Lions
147	羅世幸	Shih-Hsing Lo	Wei Chuan Dragons
148	郭建霖	Chien-Lin Kuo	Wei Chuan Dragons
149	帝波	Freddy Tiburcio	Brother Elephants
150	孫昭立	Chao-Li Sun	Wei Chuan Dragons
151	卡羅	Juan Castillo	Uni-President Lions
152	查維	Pedro Chavez	Brother Elephants
153	涂鴻欽	Hung-Chin Tu	Mercuries Tigers
154	黃世明	Shu-Ming Huang	Mercuries Tigers
155	黃廣琪	Kuang-Chi Huang	Brother Elephants
156	鄭幸生	Hsing-Sheng Chang	Mercuries Tigers
157	杜福明	Fu-Ming Tu	Uni-President Lions
158	王光輝	Kuang-Hui Wang	Brother Elephants
159
160	吳復連	Fu-Lien Wu	Brother Elephants
161
162	陳明德	Ming-Te Chen	Mercuries Tigers
163	賈西	Longo Garcia	Wei Chuan Dragons
164	陳逸松	Yi-Sung Chen	Brother Elephants
165	瑞奇	Enrique Burgos	Uni-President Lions
166	陳義信	Yi-Hsin Chen	Brother Elephants
167	謝長亨	Chang-Heng Hsieh	Uni-President Lions
168	林光宏	Kuang-Jung Lin	Wei Chuan Dragons
169
170
171	黃武雄	Wu-Shiung Huang	Mercuries Tigers
172	武侯	Andy Araujo	Mercuries Tigers
173	林文城	Wen-Cheng Lin	Brother Elephants
174	鍾斯	Al Jones	Brothher Elephants
175	鐘斯	Al Jones	Brother Elephants
176	將生	Dane Johnson	Mercuries Tigers
177	羅魁	Urbano Lugo	Mercuries Tigers
178	徐育鉉	Yi-Chen Shu	Uni-President Lions
179	張永昌	Yung-Chang Chang	Brother Elephants
180	劉義傳	Yi-Chuan Lu	Mercuries Tigers
181	剛烈	Julian Gonzalez	Mercuries Tigers
182	李仲弘	Chung-Hung Lee	Wei Chuan Dragons
183	凌森	Hugh Brinsen	Uni-President Lions
184	陳憲章	Hsien-Chang Chen	Brother Elephants
185	翁豐堉	Fong-Yu Ong	Mercuries Tigers
186	林琨瑋	Kun-Wei Lin	Wei Chuan Dragons
187	謝佳訓	Chia-Hsun Hsieh	Uni-President Lions
188	廖照鎔	Chao-Jung Liao	Uni-President Lions
189	強生	Dane Johnson	Brother Elephants
190	塗永樑	Yung-Liang Tu	Mercuries Tigers
191	張見發	Chien-Fa Chang	Wei Chuan Dragons
192	葉福榮	Fu-Jung Yeh	Uni-President Lions
193	霸多	Al Pardo	Mercuries Tigers
194	艾波	Milt Harper	Uni-President Lions
195	李坤哲	Kun-Che Li	Uni-President Lions
196	王俊郎	Chun-Lang Wang	Brother Elephants
197	羅敏卿	Min-Ching Lo	Uni-President Lions
198	布朗	Darrell Brown	Brother Elephants
199	鄭百勝	Pai-Sheng Cheng	Uni-President Lions
200	陳正中	Cheng-Chung Chen	Mercuries Tigers
201
202
203
204
205	洪一中	Yi-Chung Hung	Brother Elephants
206
207
208
209
210	陳彥成	Yan-Cheng Chen	Wei Chuan Dragons
211	林振賢	Jun-Shien Lin	Mercuries Tigers
212
213	汪俊良	Jun-Liang Wang	Uni-President Lions
214	李居明	Chu-Ming Lee	Brother Elephants
215	蔡生豐	Sheng-Feng Tsai	Mercuries Tigers
216	揚戈	Delwyn Young	Mercuries Tigers
217
218
219	徐整當	Chen-Tang Hsu	Mercuries Tigers
220
221
222
223	吳俊達	Te-Shen Wu	Brother Elephants
224
225
226
227
228	余富誠	Fu-Chen Yu	Uni-President Lions
229
230	侯明坤	Ming-Kun Ho	Mercuries Tigers
231	李安熙	An-Hsi Li	Wei Chuan Dragons
232	鄧耀華	Yao-Hua Teng	Uni-President Lions
233
234
235	何良志	Liang-Chih He	Mercuries Tigers
236
237
238
239

     The third series picked up where the numbering of the first left off and covers cards 240-400.  The first eight cards feature the monthly MVPs for the 1991 season.

     Most of the information in this post regarding the nature of the set is due to the detailed information posted on Jack Li's wonderfully detailed blog: 只送不賣的球員卡－話說芝蘭職棒球員卡(下)  This post was the second of two, and dealt with the 1992 set.

1992 Chiclets CPBL Third Series

Number	Chinese	English	Team
240	林易增	I-Tseng Lin (Monthly MVP)	Brother Elephants
241	謝長亨	Chang-Heng Hsieh (Monthly MVP)	Uni-President Lions
242	涂鴻欽	Hung-Chin Tu (Monthly MVP)	Mercuries Tigers
243	陳義信	Yi-Hsin Chen (Monthly MVP)	Brother Elephants
244	康雷	Angel Gonzalez (Monthly MVP)	Mercuries Tigers
245	陳政賢	Cheng-Hsien Chen (Monthly MVP)	Uni-President Lions
246	林仲秋	Chung-Chiu Lin (Monthly MVP)	Mercuries Tigers
247	陳憲章	Shien-Jong Chen (Monthly MVP)	Brother Elephants
248
249
250
251
252
253
254	孫昭立	Chao-Li Sun	Wei Chuan Dragons
255	羅敏卿	Min-Ching Luo	Uni-President Lions
256
257	勃朗	Darrell Brown	Wei Chuan Dragons
258
259	王光輝	Kuang-Hui Wang	Brother Elephants
260
261
262
263
264
265
266
267
268	李居明	Chu-Ming Lee	Brother Elephants
269
270
271	呂文生	Wen-Sheng Liu	Uni-President Lions
272
273	林克	Francisco Laureano	Uni-President Lions
274
275
276	曾智偵	Chi-Chen Tseng	Uni-President Lions
277	鷹俠	Luis Iglesias	Mercuries Tigers
278
279	帝波	Freddy Tiburcio	Brother Elephants
280
281
282	林仲秋	Chung-Chiu Lin	Mercuries Tigers
283	林仲秋	Chung-Chiu Lin	Mercuries Tigers
284
285
286
287
288
289
290
291
292
293
294
295
296
297
298
299
300
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324	藍文成	Wei-Chun Lan	Mercuries Tigers
325
326
327
328
329
330
331
332
333
334
335
336
337
338
339
340
341
342
343
344
345
346
347
348
349
350
351
352
353
354	廖敏雄	Ming-Hsiung Liao	China Times Eagles
355
356
357
358
359	王光熙	Kuang-Shih Wang	China Times Eagles
360	謝長亨	Chang-Heng Hsieh	Uni-President Lions
361
362
363
364
365
366	林仲秋	Chung-Chiu Lin	Mercuries Tigers
367
368
369
370
371
372
373
374
375
376
377
378	林朝煌	Chao-Huang Lin	Jungo Bears
379
380
381
382
383
384	愛快	Brian Giles	China Times Eagles
385
386
387
388
389
390
391
392
393
394
395
396
397
398
399
400

This post is somewhat incomplete, but I wanted to go ahead and get it online so I have it available to me for further research.  Details will be added for the 1991 & 1992 sets later, and the checklist will be populated as cards are discovered.