Konnichiwa, Collectors.
The baseball season is officially underway, with the Dodgers sitting at 2-0 after sweeping the Cubs in the Tokyo Series. The games, featuring Japanese MLB stars Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki for the Dodgers, and Shota Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki for the Cubs, was a huge success, with more than 25M fans in Japan tuning into the opening game.
The series was also closely followed by collectors, with Topps releasing a special set of Series 1 cards, Complex, Topps and artist Takashi Murakami collaborating on suite of cards and merch that had lines snaking around retail outlets, and even MLB auctioning off jerseys, balls and bases from the games.