A huge thanks to Matt over at the Run-Fore!-Kellogg's Baseball Cards and Run-Fore!-Sportscaster Cards.  He sent me out of the blue two extremely rare and hard-to-find 1977 Sumo Sportscaster Cards: the German-language and Italian-language cards.  These are so cool and I never thought I would own one of them given how hard these "obscure" language ones are to find.  I am amazed at the language variety of these cards and how far reaching these were collected around the world. The sumo cards checklist is now at 9 (see below) with the ones in bold the ones I have in my collection.

Thanks again Matt and much appreciated!

Sportscaster cards are fascinating to me.  The rich checklist as well as the almost endless variations and languages make chasing parts, or all, of the set really fun and challenging.  The lone sumo wrestling card in the set also has fun variations to chase.  Right now, I know of at least 7 different cards that exist, but almost certainly my checklist is incomplete.

Much thanks is owed to Matt over at the Run-Fore!-Kelloggs Blog.  He sent me a care package with 5 Sumo Wrestling Sportscaster cards for my collection and I was able to knock two off my want list.  I don't have an accurate checklist of how many different ones they made of the Sumo, but right now I have 4 of the 7 that I know of.  Matt sent me an extremely cool one from Belgium as well!  Thanks so much Matt and totally unexpected, but much appreciated.  Here it the checklist and two of the cards Matt sent!

These 1977-1979 Sportscaster cards have always been fascinating to me.  A bit oversized for sure, but the variety of sports has been very intriguing.  They even managed to make a sumo wrestling one, although I am uncertain who the Yokozuna is.  Probably Wajima or Mienoumi.  What is even more interesting is they printed these cards in both Italy and Japan.  I own the Italian version and only recently picked up the Japanese version and am waiting on shipping.  There are a good handful of "foreign" sets (cards made outside of Japan) that have sumo wrestlers depicted and I plan on cataloguing all the ones I know about under a new "Foreign" heading in my book.