Baseball card for Willie Mays: Museum Object and Cultural History
Baseball card for Willie Mays: Date: 1952. Printed by: The Topps Company, Inc., American, founded 1938. Subject of: Willie Howard Mays Jr., American, 1931 - 2024.
The object in the museum catalogue
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1952
- Printed by: The Topps Company, Inc., American, founded 1938
- Subject of: Willie Howard Mays Jr., American, 1931 - 2024
- 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
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Athletes
- Topic: Baseball
- Topic: Sports
- Object number: 2013.120.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: No Known Copyright Restrictions Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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