1991 Tucson Toros Jones Photo set confirmed

     Based on the existence of a few other undocumented Jones Photo sets from the 1990s, I had theorized that there were likely Tucson Jones Photo sets issued each year from 1987-1999.  Beckett and SCD had previously catalogued parts of the sets from 1987-1989 and 1998.  I later found photos from the sets for 1993, 1997 and 1999.  This morning, a listing appeared on eBay of a lot of Tucson-related cards and photos (baseball and college basketball) and it included 8 photos from the 1991 set, including a very rare Kenny Lofton.  Here is a cropped version of the image from the listing, focusing on the Toros photos:

Checklist Translations: 1997 Taiwan Major League Power Cards

     So far I've been able to dig up very little information on the nature of this set.  It was issued for the 1997 Taiwan Major League season, and is apparently designed as some sort of card game.  All of the cards have standard poker suits in the upper left corner, as well as menko-style paper, rock, scissors icons in the lower right corner.  Each card has some sort of power value in bold letters under the player name. The main base set is comprised of 180 player cards, and there is also a 36-card, white-bordered insert set that includes 26 game actions and 10 players.

Here are some examples of the base cards:

Sam Horn

Chi-Yueh Li

Checklist Translations: 2008 TSC La New Bears

    Sometime in the mid 2000s, Taiwan Sports Cards (http://www.taiwansportscard.com.tw/), more commonly known as TSC, began producing baseball cards for the CPBL.  In 2008, very similar to how BBM releases sets for each of the teams every year, TSC released pack-based sets for the Brother Elephants, Sinon Bulls and the La New Bears.  The sets featured the full assortment of inserts to be expected from a BBM pack-based team set; autographs, memorabilia cards, photo cards, etc.

Checklist Translations: CPBL All-Star Players 1990-1994 ( 職棒五年明星賽球員卡 )

     In the early years of the CPBL, in addition to the main base sets, the league also issued sets for the annual CPBL All-Star series.  Similar to how the NPB does things, the CPBL often had multiple All-Star games each year, and each year the rosters were split into a Red Team and a White Team.  The team alignments for those would vary year to year so there wasn't really a set National League/American League style competition.

     I'm not entirely sure how these were issued, but there was typically a collector's album produced for the sets.  Below are the checklist as I've been able to construct along with the links to jackli7751's photo albums, the numbering is his, but is not actually on the cards.  Unfortunately, I don't think he has posted on his blog about the All-Star sets, yet.

1990 CPBL All-Star Players

Album: http://jackli7751.pixnet.net/album/set/16845472

Card front:

WANTED: Tuff(y) Stuff or My Tuffy Rhodes Want List

タフィ・ローズ

     I've begun updating this list to include images of as many cards as I can find in hopes that it might help out anyone with access to the Japanese cards, but perhaps not an encyclopedic knowledge of what they all look like.  Many thanks to those that have helped make this list smaller (or longer as the case may be).

Checklist Translations: 1996/97 ProCard Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) Series One

     While this set covers the 1996 season, and shows 1996 on the front, it was actually released in early 1997.  Roughly 25,000 boxes were produced with 36 packs per box and 10 cards per pack.  Of the two sets issued by the main manufacturer in 1997, this was the cheaper set.  The set consists of 258 cards.  The set is broken down as follows:

001-175 cover the base cards for each team
176-181 are the team logo cards
182-187 are the Team MVPs (limited to 5000)
188 is a redemption card for a gold version of the MVP of the Year (limited to 5000)
190-211 are the various statistical highlights and record breakers for 1996 (limited to 6000)
212-220 are the 1996 statistical leaders
223-229 are the die-cut Golden Glove Award winners
230-238 are the Best Nine selections (limited to 10,000)
239-246 are acetate cards of the monthly MVP award winners (limited to 10,000)
247-258 cover post season champs, CPBL HR milestones and the big yearly awards (mostly limited to 10,000)

     There was also an insert set, limited to 999 cards, covering the nine league leaders (effectively the same players as cards 212-220).  These have the look of a commemorative stamp, with a perforated color photo in the center of the card.

The set is described in this blog post:
http://jackli7751.pixnet.net/blog/post/27942109

The league leader and award winner subsets are shown here:
http://jackli7751.pixnet.net/blog/post/41480276

The die-cut Golden Glove Award cards can be seen here:
http://jackli7751.pixnet.net/blog/post/41827165

The cards can be seen in this album:
http://jackli7751.pixnet.net/album/set/16814906

The standard base card front and back:

Pascual Perez

Sheng-Feng Tsai