Byron Beck Basketball Card
date: label: date made
content: 1972
label: copyright date
content: 1969
name: label: publisher
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: publisher
content: Topps Chewing Gum
label: depicted
content: Beck, Byron
label: maker
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: maker
content: Topps Chewing Gum
notes: label: Description
content: This Byron Beck basketball card is number 187 in a series of 264 that was manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1972-1973 American Basketball Association season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Denver Rockets Forward/Center on a yellow background. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “They call him ‘Lord Byron’,” as well as a short biography and career statistics.
label: Description
content: Beck played in the ABA for the duration of the league’s existence (1967-1976), as a member of the Denver Rockets/Nuggets. He played his final season in the NBA in 1977 as the Nuggets were one of four ABA teams who joined the NBA. Beck's jersey number (40) was the first retired in Nuggets franchise history on December 16, 1977.
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Basketball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Basketball Cards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0568.063
label: accession number
content: 1982.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0568.063
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card, basketball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm