Help: Post Cool Looking Menko Cards
 

I don't collect Japanese Menko cards, but I think they are really cool looking. My local fair (Spokane) is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1973 World's Fair. This year's theme is international "Traveling Around the World." I entered my Lou Gehrig card mosaic in the 2023 fair, and want to enter another in 2024. In order to fulfill the theme I want to recreate a menko card, preferably a HOF'er. I only know Sadaharu Oh, but I didn't see any neat menko card of him when I did a Google search. If you know of a colorful Oh card, please post; but it can be other star players as well.. Thanks in advance!

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Some from my collection.

Wally Yonamine is in the HOF born in Hawaii has a few Menko cards also played football for the 49er’s

Who is this?
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HOFer Shigeru Chiba:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/r...d=chiba-000shi

I like that card. great pose and color. it really grabs one's attention. Do you know what the front of the card says?

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That's his name at the top of the card in the kanji. The kanji in the middle of the card says "Giants," it was the team that he played for.

A couple more menko attached (not because they're any better than Sean's, mostly just as an excuse to post pictures of menko cards).

Thanks. I like the Bettoh card. It looks like he's moving across the card face with those wind lines behind him.

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