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All 67 Japanese MLB players rookie cards, from both America and Japan. There are also a few fun facts thrown in here as well about some of the players. Happy reading!

Many players have many, many rookies from the same year and other brands not listed here. My order of preference for choosing rookie cards were as follows:

Japanese rookies:
Year, BBM preferred (except for Murakami). Lowest card number chosen if BBM issued multiple cards of the player in the same set.

American rookies:
Topps base preferred, then bowman, then other major releases (Upper Deck, Donruss, Fleer/Fleer Tradition), then more minor sets released by the main companies (Topps Finest, Bowman's Best), and if no major releases exist for a player, then the earliest minor league card is selected.

All the key rookies from 1970-1995 Topps, plus a couple I added for personal reasons. This includes only Topps flagship/traded sets, and Bowman ONLY if no flagship/traded rookie exists from the same year for a player.