Regarded as the first Japanese "American style" baseball card effort, 1967 Kabaya-Leaf was offered in a slightly smaller-than-standard size of 2 3/8" x 3 3/8". It was the first set produced in Japan to include statistical information and bios of the players on reverse and the set featured two distinct front designs similar to both 1959 and 1963 Topps. Six of Japan's twelve teams of the era represented on the stunning cards, with a skip-numbering format likely due to a planned second series that never did come to fruition. Near-complete, and lacking only the four notoriously tough SPs, this mid-to-high-grade collection of 101 cards presents a model of consistency almost never seen in assembly of a vintage foreign set. Each example offers fantastic color and production quality, a testament to how seriously Japan regarded their professional baseball during the era. 

20 examples have been graded by PSA and range in technical grades from PSA EX 5 to PSA NM 7, including the key cards of Sadahru Oh and Shigeo Nagashimi both achieving grades of PSA EX 5. A complete condition breakdown of the graded cards is as follows: PSA NM 7: #111; PSA EX-MT 6: #55, #59, #68 Eto, #71, #103 Murayama, #104, #361; PSA EX 5: #6, #11 Oh, #12 Nagashima, #114, #115, #314, #319, #360, #352 Ohgi, #353, #362, #401 Mizuhara.

A complete condition breakdown of the ungraded cards would be 5% NM, 43% EX-MT, 46% EX, 6% VG-EX. The ungraded Japanese Hall of Famers include: #1 Kawakami (VG-EX), #4 Horiuchi (EX-MT), #51 Nishizawa (EX), #66 Gondo (EX-MT), #101 Fujimoto (EX), #113 Yoshida (EX-MT), $116 Yamauchi (EX), #301 Tasuroka (EX+), #304 Sagiura (EX+), #305 Minagawa (NM), #310 Nomura (EX-MT), #318 Hirose (EX), #351 Nakanishi (EX), #356 Inao (VG-EX), #409 Haricot (EX). A rare chance at this milestone in overseas card sets. 101 cards total.