Object Details
- Description
- This Bill Hewitt basketball card is number 107 in a series of 264 that was manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1972-1973 National Basketball Association season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Detroit Pistons forward on a yellow background. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Bill came to Pistons on Thanksgiving Day, 1969,” as well as a short biography and career statistics. Hewitt played six years in the NBA as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, Detroit Pistons, Buffalo Braves, and Chicago Bulls.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Hewitt, Bill
- maker
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- Topps Chewing Gum
- date made
- 1972
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm
- Object Name
- card, basketball
