Baseball card for Willie Mays
date: label: Date
content: 1952
name: label: Printed by
content: The Topps Company, Inc., American, founded 1938
label: Subject of
content: Willie Howard Mays Jr., American, 1931 - 2024
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Transcription Center Status
content: Transcribed by digital volunteers
place: label: Place depicted
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Athletes
label: Topic
content: Baseball
label: Topic
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.120.2
objectType: label: Type
content: baseball cards
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 3 3/4 × 2 5/8 in. (9.5 × 6.7 cm)