You might not know this, but Japan loves baseball.  It is not a new fad either, Japanese have enjoyed baseball as a sport and past time for a long time.  In fact, I think that the sport still holds more popularity in Japan then it does in North America.  So it isn’t really a big shock that BAPE has teamed up with a Japanese baseball team, the Rakuten Eagles.  I am not sure what made then decide to go with that team only so I am going to go out on a limb and say that it is Nigo’s favourite Japanese baseball team (mine too!).

I am happy to mention that BAPE and Rakuten Eagles have come out with a pretty good amount of products with the latest release.  I think so far, the BAPE / Sanrio team up has been the largest amount of items released for a collaboration effort with A Bathing Ape but this is definitely a close second.