Baseball card for Willie Mays
Object Details
- Printed by
- The Topps Company, Inc., American, founded 1938
- Subject of
- Willie Howard Mays Jr., American, 1931 - 2024
- Description
- Baseball card for Willie Mays. The card includes a color portrait of Mays on the front, in a NY Giants uniform, with the NY Giants logo and his signature. The back of the card features a short biography and Mays' batting and fielding averages.
- Transcription Center Status
- Transcribed by digital volunteers
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 1952
- Object number
- 2013.120.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- baseball cards
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 3 3/4 × 2 5/8 in. (9.5 × 6.7 cm)
- Place depicted
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Athletes
- Baseball
- Sports
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2013.120.2
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd507e63def-6f4c-421a-ba91-9d834079c1f9
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