Baseball card for Willie Mays

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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

Date

1952

Object number

2013.120.2

Restrictions & Rights

No Known Copyright Restrictions

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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

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification

Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Data Source

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic

African American

Athletes

Baseball

Sports

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd507e63def-6f4c-421a-ba91-9d834079c1f9

Record ID

nmaahc_2013.120.2