Object Details
- Description
- This Jim Davis basketball card is number 51 in a series of 264 that was manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1973-1974 National Basketball Association (NBA) season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Detroit Pistons center-forward on a yellow background. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Jim can fill in at center or forward,” as well as a short biography and career statistics. Jim played eight years in the NBA for the St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, and Houston Rockets.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- publisher
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- Topps Chewing Gum
- depicted
- Davis, Jim
- maker
- NBA Properties, Inc.
- Topps Chewing Gum
- date made
- 1972
- copyright date
- 1969
- 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
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