TYPE: Cards
DIMENSIONS: 3 X 5 in. (cards)
14 X 15 inch (playing board)
COMPONENTS: 75 cards; two unused die-cut player discs (9 players each); playing board sheet; directions.
CONDITION:
NOTES: Very early and rare.
LANGUAGE
Japanese
ITEM ID: 2174
Homma’s Baseball Cards
DATE
Year: 1910
Decade: 1910s
Century: 19th (1801-1900)
A pack of Homma’s Base Ball Cards from the Homma Brothers and Co., Tokyo, with playing board and directions included.
Scholar Andrew Gebert commented, “Together with your 1940s baseball memorabilia, this tracks a trajectory in Japanese popular culture: from a full embrace of English and things foreign in 1910, to their erasure and suppression in the wartime years.”
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