2023 Topps WBC Team Samurai

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)

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