1950 JBR2a 3X4 Baseball Bromide Card~ EDWARD EISHIRO YOSHIE ~Giants ~ CANADIAN

Description: 1950 JBR 2A (JBR-2-A) '3rd Prize' B&W Baseball Bromide Card 3" by 4" Edward Eishiro Yoshie Pitcher Yomiuri Giants Canadian Vancouver, BC born These medium-large B&W Baseball Bromide Menko Cards were made in 1950, and were the '3rd Prize'. This set is Catalogued as JBR 2a or JBR 2 'type A' in the Japanese Baseball Card Catalog. Examples from this set would be Scarce to Rare overall, They rank as R3, meaning est. 11-99 of ea. card known. Edward Eishiro YoshieYoshie was born in Vancouver, BC Canada on July 9, 1922 to parents from Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan.In 1938, at the age of 15, his parents sent him to their hometown in Japan. Yoshie would move in with his parents’ family and would attend Sendai Daiichi High School. By 1940, he had helped the school win the Miyagi Prefectural Tournament, then Tohoku Regional Tournament for just the second time in their history. This qualified them for the National High School Tournament, also known as the Koshien Tournament. This was no small feat. Tohoku, the northern region of the main island of Honshu, is made up of six prefectures: Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Yamagata, and Miyagi. Not only did Sendai Ichiko have to fight through the best teams in Miyagi, the region’s most populous prefecture, but then his team also had to defeat the best schools from the other five. Yoshie had gotten on to the radar of Waseda University. Waseda, a member of the Tokyo Big 6 League, is one of the most prestigious programs in Japan. Yoshie would pitch for them from 1941 until the Big 6 League was shut down by the government in 1943. During which time Waseda won two Big 6 Titles, in the fall of 1941 and the fall of 1942. Since Yoshie was not Japanese by birth and a university student, he would not get drafted into the military during WW II, but he would be monitored thoroughly by Japanese counterintelligence agents. In an attempt to get more playing time, Yoshie signed with the Yomiuri Giants for NPB’s inaugural season in 1950. However, the Giants had two workhorse Hall of Fame ace caliber starters in Takehiko Bessho and Hideo Fujimoto, so Yoshie was only able to pitch in 14 games, starting only six. Despite being very good in the 1950 season, it would be Yoshie’s last in Pro ball. He would soon move to Shizuoka and work for the Daishowa Paper Company. Daishowa had an elite amateur ball team and with them, Yoshie won the 1953 Japanese Inter-City Amateur tournament. Yoshie would pitch in their 4-1 quarter-finals win over the Toso Electric Railway Company.From there… Yoshie disappears off the map. Despite Daishowa making the Inter-City Tournament many times thoughout the 50s, Yoshie doesn’t appear on the tournament’s records after 1953. It is known that at some point he went back to Vancouver and passed away there on January 21, 1986. Larger Size Premium light wear and stainsback premium ink mark collector grade. 3-1/16" by 3-7/8" Great for the 'type card collector', Canadian or Japanese Card collector.... guaranteed authentic and unaltered. ~SHIPPING~  I have to start charging for shipping on items over $20.  On $20+, It cost me $4.36 to send a small 3oz USPS tracked envelope.  On mid-range items in the $20-$50 range  I need to charge for a part of this fee  so have a new $2 Shipping Charge on some items.   Mahalo

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