I trying to decide on a topic for this week's "Card Of The Week" and I noticed that Chusei Mannami had hit his league-leading eight home run today. Mannami always seems to have good looking cards so I did a quick search on Jambalaya to pick out a good one (and one that I've hopefully not shared before). While doing so, I discovered something kind of interesting - his cards in the 2024 Topps NPB and Epoch NPB sets used the same photo:
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| 2024 Topps NPB #106 |
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| 2024 Epoch NPB #331 |
While I would like to use this as an opportunity to slam Topps, their set was out first. The 2024 edition of their set was released in late May of that year while the Epoch set didn't come out for another month or so.
I've seen a couple instances of this in the past but I don't know how often it happens. While I'm curious, I can't think of a what to figure it out that doesn't involve a brute force approach to looking at the cards of 500-ish players for each year and I'm not sure I'm curious enough to do it.
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