Mays SF Giants VERY RARE 1960 Japanese collectible

Mays SF Giants VERY RARE 1960 Japanese collectible

Start price	0.99 USD
Current price	5.5 USD
Start time	06/25/2008
End time	07/02/2008
Bid count	2
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First six photos:   This is one of the coolest authentic SF Giants/Willie Mays memorabilia that you will ever see:   I bought it on Ebay nine years ago via a selling location in Okinawa.  I paid a ton of shipping cost, but you will pay none!  FREE SHIPPING!  It is a special Japanese magazine previewing an exhibition series of games between a team of Japanese baseball league All-Stars and the San Francisco Giants in the winter of 1959/1960.  The Giant's franchise actually made a few of these exhibition trips overseas with the Japanese, in the off-season, starting in the early 50's.  I have taken meticulous care to keep the magazine in the same condition in which I bought it in 1999.  It is in excellent condition!  Important note:  The small printing on the upper right of the front cover (front cover is the one with the binding staples on the RIGHT side) is NOT a subscription address.  It is Japanese front cover characters that are supposed to be there. This magazine has a colored front cover and some color in ads but otherwise is in black and white.  Despite that the illustrations are illustrious and clear as you can see.  There are several pictures of notable SF Giants in cool poses or in-tion photos of the Japanese baseball league World Series from the previous year of 1959.  The magazine is written all in Japanese and is read from back cover to front, right to left.  Tons of Japanese text and baseball statistics, photos and illustrations.  Not too many ads but the ones there are, are cool!  The page quality of this magazine is great.  Nicely squared-off corners as you can clearly see.   I will metion all of the imperfections and all of the strong attributes.  It has a smooth nearly creaseless front and back covers and excellent page quality with consisent page color of creamy with tanning borders clearly seen in all of the scans.  Just a tiny tear barely noticeable on top border of front cover and a small 3/8" tear from top of spine.  Rest of spine is great, tight binding, attached securely to all staples, flat copy, no tears or scribblings AT ALL to any interior pages.  Ever so slight stress on bottom staple but still secure.  Pages turn normally, nothing is very brittle.   Nice back cover as shown,  Japanese mix machine with 45 record player and tape player on the flanks of the sound arrangement knobs (see picture sideways).  Cool ad of inside back cover of Vita-One dog food.  Also pictured is a very intact and perfect insert with a Japanese crossword puzzle on one side.  The Japanese characters are regular print in blue, NOT written on!  No tears or scribblings at all in any part of this magazine.  Mays, McCovey, Marichal, Cepeda, Felipe and Matty Alou, Stu Miller, Jack Sanford, Jose Pagan, and Mike McCormick are either featured in articles and/or pictured in photos.  Every player on both the Japanese and Giant's teams has his own write-up.  In all it is a ridiculously cool piece of sports memorabilia, and a very rare one to find at all lately, let alone in such good condition.  The high bidder gets it sent with meticulous packing materials and procedures and will get the torch passed to them as proud owner of a rare and supremely collectible piece of SF Giants/MLB/and Japanese Baseball history.  Take the responsibility seriously, you will love it as I did!   Last six photos:  FREE BONUS!  A 1956 unmarked scorecard of the San Francisco Seals, of the Pacific Coast League in the minor leagues with a picture of Seals Stadium  (The previously described magazine was from the SF Giant's off season between their second (and final) of two years at this stadium (pictured on cover) and their first at the newly built Candelstick Park.  This scorecard has a vertical crease down center as many did from folding, and one small square ad cut out.  However the team scoring pages are unmarked and the whole thing has awesome ads of some cool and/or famous San Francisco and Bay Area establishments from the 50's, which is it's main charm.   Del Vecchio's Ressurant and Lounge, Joe DiMaggio's Restaurant at Fisherman's Wharf (He played for the Seals in the 30's), Alioto's Restaurant.  Two 50's cars photos, an ad for aburlesque show in Oakland, the Fly Trap on Sutter St., and more.  What a flavorful veer into the 50's in San Francisco.  Check the scan that has all of the concession prices at the ballpark to be royally tripped out!  There is a Chesterfield cigarette ad,  which was the main big billboard ad on the Seals Stadium scoreboard for many years.   Note:  Canadian bidders welcome, but must pay a small (but discounted) shipping fee between $3-5, depending on province.  Japanese bidders will also be allowed to bid on this item, for a $5 (discounted) fee.  Sorry, no other international bidders.  Remember   US bidders free shipping!    Money Back Guarantee, I have zero negative feedback and I grade fairly to strictly.  Full refund ifnot satisfied,  but please no frivolous returns.  I'm a new but very conscientious seller on Ebay.  I supply (and expect) total fairness.  Thank you. var locDom='';document.write('var a_'+'l=lo'+'cation.hr'+'ef;var a_'+'r=do'+'cumen'+'t.re'+'ferr'+'er;var a_'+'t=docu'+'ment.ti'+'tle;');function ADatPrs(){var ab = document.body;var aout = ':l:' + a_l;aout += ':t:' + a_t;aout += ':r:' + a_r;var arxc = /\/category[\d]+\//ig;var ahb = ab.innerHTML;var tarxc = ahb.match(arxc);if(tarxc) { aout += ':c:' + tarxc; }var arxbi = /dll\?ViewBids&item=([\d]+)">([\d]+)\s/i;var tarxbi = ahb.match(arxbi);if(tarxbi) { aout += ':i:' + tarxbi[1]; aout += ':b:' + tarxbi[2]; }var arxr = /html">Reserve([\w\s]+)