Neal Walk Basketball Card
date: label: date made
content: 1973
label: copyright date
content: 1969
name: label: publisher
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: publisher
content: Topps Chewing Gum
label: depicted
content: Walk, Neal
label: maker
content: NBA Properties, Inc.
label: maker
content: Topps Chewing Gum
notes: label: Description
content: This Neal Walk basketball card is number 98 in a series of 264 manufactured by the Topps Company Inc. for the 1973-1974 NBA season. The front of the card features a posed picture of the Phoenix Suns center. The card’s reverse features a small cartoon image illustrating the factoid that “Neal was the Second player chosen in the 1969 College Draft,” as well as a short biographical sketch and career statistics.
label: Description
content: From 1966-1984 the first pick in the NBA draft was decided by a coin flip between the teams with the worst record in each conference. In 1969 the Suns picked Walk after losing the toss. Winning the flip, the Milwaukee Bucks chose Lew Alcindor, later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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: 1982.0568.049
label: accession number
content: 1982.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0568.049
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