Stadium Mug Shots

I poke fun at Topps' NPB offerings all the time so it's kind of surprising when I occasionally end up trying to finish some oddball Topps related item.  One such item was in last year's 206 set.  I had mocked this set as a mug shot set but I did like the parallels that showed the player's image in front of the outside of their home ballpark.  I eventually got one of these for each team and stadium - I think I got the last couple I needed at Coletre last May but I can't remember now which ones they were.

I decided before I left for Japan than I was going to try to do my own version of these cards at each ballpark I went to on the trip.  So without further ado, here's one of the "stadium background" parallels for each ballpark along with a selfie I took at the same ballpark:

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I attempted to get a similar shot as the card but I usually hadn't looked at the card recently and I didn't always have a lot of time to take the selfie.  Plus I'm really bad at taking selfies.

I didn't make it up to Hokkaido so I wasn't able to recreate this one outside the Fighters ballpark:

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I did, however, take selfies outside the two non-NPB ballparks I went to.  First was Kusanagi Stadium in Shizuoka:

The second was Ota Stadium in Tokyo:

And with that, my posts about my trip to Japan last May are finally done.  It only took me nearly six months to finish!